Data from: Flying on their own wings: young and adult cuckoos respond similarly to long-distance displacement during migration

Thorup K, Vega ML, Snell KRS, Lubkovskaia R, Willemoes M, Sjöberg S, Sokolov LV, Bulyuk V. 2020. Data from: Flying on their own wings: young and adult cuckoos respond similarly to long-distance displacement during migration. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.vk36vq82

Abstract

Common cuckoos Cuculus canorus are obligate nest parasites yet young birds reach their distant, species-specific wintering grounds without being able to rely on guidance from experienced conspecifics--in fact they never meet their parents. Naïve marine animals use an inherited navigational map during migration but in inexperienced terrestrial animal migrants unequivocal evidence of navigation is lacking. We present satellite tracking data on common cuckoos experimentally displaced 1,800 km eastward from Rybachy to Kazan. After displacement, both young and adult travelled similarly towards the route of non-displaced control birds. The tracking data demonstrate the potential for young common cuckoos to return to the species-specific migration route after displacement, a response so far reported exclusively in experienced birds. Our results indicate that an inherited map allows first-time migrating cuckoos to locate suitable wintering grounds. This is in contrast to previous studies of solitary terrestrial bird migrants but similar to that reported from the marine environment.

Keywords

Cuculus canorus, animal tracking, Argos, avian migration, animal navigation, common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, satellite telemetry

Taxa

Taxon

Cuculus canorus

Common Cuckoo

Sensors

Sensor

Argos Doppler Shift

DOIs of related Publications

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64230-x

URI

https://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.1073

BibTex

@misc{001/1_vk36vq82,
  title = {Data from: Flying on their own wings: young and adult cuckoos respond similarly to long-distance displacement during migration},
  author = {Thorup, K and Vega, ML and Snell, KRS and Lubkovskaia, R and Willemoes, M and Sjöberg, S and Sokolov, LV and Bulyuk, V},
  year = {2020},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.vk36vq82},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.vk36vq82},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}

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T1  - Data from: Flying on their own wings: young and adult cuckoos respond similarly to long-distance displacement during migration
AU  - Thorup, Kasper
AU  - Vega, Marta L.
AU  - Snell, Katherine R.S.
AU  - Lubkovskaia, Regina
AU  - Willemoes, Mikkel
AU  - Sjöberg, Sissel
AU  - Sokolov, Leonid V.
AU  - Bulyuk, Victor
Y1  - 2020/07/01
KW  - Cuculus canorus
KW  - animal movement
KW  - animal tracking
KW  - Argos
KW  - avian migration
KW  - animal navigation
KW  - common cuckoo
KW  - Cuculus canorus
KW  - satellite telemetry
KW  - Cuculus canorus
PB  - Movebank data repository
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.vk36vq82
DO  - doi:10.5441/001/1.vk36vq82
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