Title |
Solving a Migration Riddle Using Isoscapes: House Martins from a Dutch Village Winter over West Africa
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, September 2012
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0045005 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Keith A. Hobson, Steven L. Van Wilgenburg, Theunis Piersma, Leonard I. Wassenaar |
Abstract |
The ability to connect breeding, stopover and wintering locations of populations of migratory birds greatly enhances our understanding of the phenomenon of migration and improves our chances of effectively conserving these species. Among Palearctic-Afrotropical migratory species, aerial insectivores like the house martin (Delichon urbicum) are sensitive to factors influencing the availability of flying insects, and have declined in recent decades. The strict aerial behaviour of martins severely limits ring recoveries on wintering grounds and so there is a dearth of information on where European breeding populations over-winter in Africa, and the relative effects of population regulation on breeding vs. wintering grounds. We used a newly developed multi-isotope (δ(2)H, δ(13)C, δ(15)N) feather isoscape for Africa together with inferences from summarized ring return data based on longitude, to assign winter origins to birds captured at a breeding colony in The Netherlands. |
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United Kingdom | 3 | 21% |
Germany | 2 | 14% |
Niger | 1 | 7% |
New Zealand | 1 | 7% |
Australia | 1 | 7% |
Unknown | 6 | 43% |
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Members of the public | 13 | 93% |
Scientists | 1 | 7% |
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United States | 4 | 5% |
United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
Brazil | 1 | 1% |
Romania | 1 | 1% |
Mexico | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 79 | 91% |
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Student > Master | 16 | 18% |
Researcher | 15 | 17% |
Student > Bachelor | 7 | 8% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 5% |
Other | 9 | 10% |
Unknown | 11 | 13% |
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Environmental Science | 11 | 13% |
Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3 | 3% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 2% |
Other | 3 | 3% |
Unknown | 12 | 14% |