The urge to breed early: Similar responses to environmental conditions in short- and long-distance migrants during spring migration.

ABSTRACT: Birds migrating different distances experience different temporal, energetic, physiological, and physical constraints throughout migration, which is reflected in their migration strategy. Consequently, we predict different behavioral decisions to similar environmental cues between short- and long-distance migrants, which has been documented for autumn migration. Here, we focus on the question whether trade-off decisions regarding departure, routing, and landing when alternating between migratory endurance flights and stopovers also differ during spring migration. As early arrivals at the breeding grounds should be ultimately favored regardless of migration distance, selection may favor more similar behavioral decisions in spring than in autumn. We radio-tagged short- and long-distance migr

SUBMITTER: Ruppel G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10318620 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature