Vermont Center for Ecostudies Upland Sandpiper Annual Life Cycle Ecology-gps

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dc.contributor.authorHill, Jason M.
dc.contributor.authorRenfrew, Rosalind B.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-31T03:00:12Z
dc.date.available2019-12-31T03:00:12Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-31
dc.description.abstractIntegrated models of the ecology of migratory species require tracking of individual migratory organisms throughout the annual cycle. Here, we report the first information on the movement patterns of nine Upland Sandpipers (Bartramia longicauda) that were captured at breeding sites in Kansas and Massachusetts, and tracked with GPS and PTT tags to non-breeding sites in South America. Upland Sandpipers were extreme migrants that regularly made non-stop flights that were >5,000 km in length and lasted up to 7 days. Sandpipers traveled up to 20,000 km per year in their annual movements. Our project resulted in a series of new discoveries. Sandpipers regularly crossed major ecological barriers during migration, which included long oceanic flights, high elevation mountains, and tropical forests. Migrating birds used known stopover sites in the central flyway of North America and eastern slope of the Andes in South America, and a subset of birds wintered in core non-breeding sites in the Pampas ecoregion of Uruguay and Argentina. We documented new staging sites at canefields in the mountain valleys of Colombia, grasslands in the Llanos of Venezuela, and at airports along the Atlantic Coast of the US. Unexpectedly, some sandpipers spent the non-breeding season on river islands in the Amazon basin, and pastures in the Cerrado ecoregion of Brazil; areas not previously known to host overwintering Upland Sandpipers. Like many other migratory birds in the Western Hemisphere, Upland Sandpipers had elliptical migration routes within the Southern Hemisphere, moved among separate activity areas during the non-breeding season, migrated faster during northbound than southbound migration, and spent more time at non-breeding than breeding sites. Collectively, the birds used sites across much of northern South America as a broad front migrant. Overall, the migratory patterns of Upland Sandpipers were more similar to migratory landbirds than to shorebirds that typically stage at wetlands and coastal estuaries. Upland Sandpipers should be buffered against habitat loss and degradation at local sites within their migratory range, but it may be difficult to protect specific sites or broad landscapes that would be needed to conserve a high percentage of the global population.
dc.identifier.doidoi:10.5441/001/1.3pt25757/2
dc.identifier.urihttps://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.988
dc.relation.ispartofdoi:10.5441/001/1.3pt25757
dc.relation.isreferencedbydoi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00426
dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
dc.subjectanimal movement
dc.subjectanimal tracking
dc.subjectArgos
dc.subjectavian migration
dc.subjectBartramia longicauda
dc.subjectelliptical migration
dc.subjectsatellite telemetry
dc.subjectupland sandpipers
dc.titleVermont Center for Ecostudies Upland Sandpiper Annual Life Cycle Ecology-gps
dc.typeDataset
dspace.entity.typeData package
dwc.ScientificNameBartramia longicauda
mdr.citation.BibTex
@misc{001/1_3pt25757/2,
  title = {Vermont Center for Ecostudies Upland Sandpiper Annual Life Cycle Ecology-gps},
  author = {Hill, JM and Renfrew, RB},
  year = {2019},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.3pt25757/2},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.3pt25757/2},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}
mdr.citation.CSE
Hill JM, Renfrew RB. 2019. Vermont Center for Ecostudies Upland Sandpiper Annual Life Cycle Ecology-gps. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.3pt25757/2
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