Data from: Loop-migration and non-breeding locations of British breeding Wood Warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix
Data from: Loop-migration and non-breeding locations of British breeding Wood Warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix
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2022-11-22
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Burgess MD, Castello J, Davis T, Hewson C. 2022. Data from: Loop-migration and non-breeding locations of British breeding Wood Warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.kg7732nbAbstract
Capsule: British breeding Wood Warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix show a clockwise loop migration incorporating stops in southern Europe, the Sahel, and the humid forest zone of West Africa.
Aims: To determine autumn and spring migration routes, the location and duration of stopover sites on migration, and the location of non-breeding areas of British breeding Wood Warblers.
Methods: In 2016 and 2018 we deployed geolocators to male Wood Warblers on Dartmoor, Devon, and in the New Forest, Hampshire. We retrieved four geolocators from returning birds in 2017, 2019, and 2020.
Results: Male Wood Warblers departed breeding sites in late July and stopped for most of August in central southern Europe, crossed the Sahara by a non-stop night and day flight immediately followed by a short stop, and then migrated west to a longer stopover in the Sahel. Final non-breeding destinations were in an area of West Africa covering Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. Two were tracked on spring migration, again crossing the Sahara via a non-stop flight before migrating through Western Europe to complete a clockwise loop migration back to Britain.
Conclusion: All tracked Wood Warblers used stopovers for at least three weeks in three distinct regions, in central southern Europe, in the Sahel, and in the humid zone of West Africa. Although the limitations of geolocation prevent matching locations with habitat, these regions are broadly characterized by distinct forest or woodland habitat types, which differ from breeding habitat. All four tracks showed similar patterns in route, stopover behaviour, and timings, suggesting they may be representative of males in these breeding populations, and potentially of other British and western European Wood Warbler populations.
Keywords
animal movement,animal tracking,avian migration,light-level logger,Phylloscopus sibilatrix,solar geolocation,Afro-Palearctic flyway
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@misc{001/1_kg7732nb,
title = {Data from: Loop-migration and non-breeding locations of British breeding Wood Warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix},
author = {Burgess, MD and Castello, J and Davis, T and Hewson, C},
year = {2022},
URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.kg7732nb},
doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.kg7732nb},
publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}RIS
TY - DATA ID - doi:10.5441/001/1.kg7732nb T1 - Data from: Loop-migration and non-breeding locations of British breeding Wood Warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix AU - Burgess, Malcolm D. AU - Castello, Joan AU - Davis, Tony AU - Hewson, Chris Y1 - 2022/11/22 KW - animal movement KW - animal tracking KW - avian migration KW - light-level logger KW - Phylloscopus sibilatrix KW - solar geolocation KW - Afro-Palearctic flyway PB - Movebank data repository UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.kg7732nb DO - doi:10.5441/001/1.kg7732nb ER -