Data from: Migration patterns of upland sandpipers in the western hemisphere
Data from: Migration patterns of upland sandpipers in the western hemisphere
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2019-12-31
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Hill JM, Renfrew RB. 2019. Data from: Migration patterns of upland sandpipers in the western hemisphere. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.3pt25757Abstract
Integrated 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.
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Bartramia longicauda,animal tracking,Argos,avian migration,Bartramia longicauda,elliptical migration,satellite telemetry,upland sandpipers
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@misc{001/1_3pt25757,
title = {Data from: Migration patterns of upland sandpipers in the western hemisphere},
author = {Hill, JM and Renfrew, RB},
year = {2019},
URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.3pt25757},
doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.3pt25757},
publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}RIS
TY - DATA ID - doi:10.5441/001/1.3pt25757 T1 - Data from: Migration patterns of upland sandpipers in the western hemisphere AU - Hill, Jason M. AU - Renfrew, Rosalind B. Y1 - 2019/12/31 KW - Bartramia longicauda KW - animal movement KW - animal tracking KW - Argos KW - avian migration KW - Bartramia longicauda KW - elliptical migration KW - satellite telemetry KW - upland sandpipers KW - Bartramia longicauda PB - Movebank data repository UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.3pt25757 DO - doi:10.5441/001/1.3pt25757 ER -