Spatial behavior and habitat use in widely separated breeding and wintering distributions across three species of long-distance migrant Phylloscopus warblers.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To investigate the ecological relationship between breeding and wintering in specialist and generalist long-distance migratory species, and the links between densities and range sizes.

Location

Denmark, Senegal and Ghana.

Methods

We use radio tracking to study spatial behavior and habitat use in three morphologically and ecologically similar and closely related Phylloscopus species on their widely separated breeding and wintering distributions. During wintering and breeding, willow warblers P. trochilus (winter: n = 9, breeding: n = 13), chiffchaffs P. collybita (n = 11, n = 7), and wood warblers P. sibilatrix (n = 17, n = 14) were tracked.

Results

Willow warblers P. trochilus incr

SUBMITTER: Lerche-Jorgensen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6580274 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature