Data from: Intra-African movements of the African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis as revealed by satellite telemetry

Iwajomo SB, Willemoes M, Ottosson U, Strandberg R, Thorup K. 2017. Data from: Intra-African movements of the African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis as revealed by satellite telemetry. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.b800b7c3

Abstract

Despite many bird species migrating regularly within the African continent, in response to rainfall and breeding opportunities, documented evidence of the spatiotemporal patterns of such movements is scarce. We use satellite telemetry to document the year round movement of an intra-African migrant breeding in the savannah zone of sub-Saharan Africa, the African Cuckoo. After breeding in central Nigeria, the birds migrated to more forested sites in the Adamawa region of Cameroon (n=2) and western Central African Republic (n=1). Departure from the breeding ground coincided with deteriorating environmental conditions whereas arrival at the non-breeding sites matched period of increasing vegetation greenness. Migratory movements generally occurred during dark hours. In total, an average distance of 748 km in 66 days was covered during the post-breeding migration and 744 km in 27 days during return journey with considerable individual variation and with more stopover sites used during post-breeding migration. The diversity of migration routes followed suggests a relatively variable or flexible initial migration strategy, high individual route consistency as well as high fidelity for non-breeding grounds.

Keywords

Cuculus gularis,animal tracking,Argos,avian migration,Cuculus gularis,intra-African bird migration,nocturnal migration,satellite telemetry

Taxa

Taxon

Cuculus gularis

African Cuckoo

Sensors

Sensor

Argos Doppler Shift

DOIs of related Publications

https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.01616

URI

https://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.714

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@misc{001/1_b800b7c3,
  title = {Data from: Intra-African movements of the African Cuckoo Cuculus gularis as revealed by satellite telemetry},
  author = {Iwajomo, SB and Willemoes, M and Ottosson, U and Strandberg, R and Thorup, K},
  year = {2017},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.b800b7c3},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.b800b7c3},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}

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