Data from: The price of being late: short- and long-term consequences of a delayed migration timing [naturally-timed birds]

Citation
Bontekoe ID, Fiedler W, Wikelski M, Flack A. 2023. Data from: The price of being late: short- and long-term consequences of a delayed migration timing [naturally-timed birds]. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.277
Abstract
Choosing the right migration timing is critical for migrants because conditions encountered en route influence movement costs, survival, and, in social migrants, the availability of social information. Depending on lifetime stages, individuals may migrate at different times due to diverging constraints, affecting the composition of migration groups. To examine the consequences of a delayed migration timing, we artificially delayed the migration of juvenile white storks (Ciconia ciconia) and thereby altered their physical and social environment. Using nearly continuous 1 Hz GPS trajectories, we examined their migration behaviour, ranging from sub-second level performance to global long-distance movement, in relation to two control groups. We found that delayed storks experienced suboptimal soaring conditions, but better wind support and thereby achieved higher flight speeds than control storks. Delayed storks had a lower mortality rate than the control storks and wintered closer to the breeding area. In fact, none of the delayed storks reached the traditional African wintering areas. Thus, our results show that juvenile storks can survive migrating at the ‘wrong’ time. However, this had long-term consequences on migration decisions. We suggest that, when timing their migration, storks balance not just energy and time, but also the availability of social information.
Keywords
Ciconia ciconia, accelerometer, animal movement, animal tracking, avian migration, bio-logging, GPRS telemetry, GPS, GPS logger, white stork
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Ciconia ciconia
White Stork
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GPS
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@misc{001/1_277,
  title = {Data from: The price of being late: short- and long-term consequences of a delayed migration timing [naturally-timed birds]},
  author = {Bontekoe, ID and Fiedler, W and Wikelski, M and Flack, A},
  year = {2023},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.277},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.277},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}
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AU  - Flack, Andrea
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