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No apparent gain from continuing migration for more than 3000 kilometres: willow warblers breeding in Denmark winter across the entire northern Savannah as revealed by geolocators

Overview of attention for article published in Movement Ecology, August 2017
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Title
No apparent gain from continuing migration for more than 3000 kilometres: willow warblers breeding in Denmark winter across the entire northern Savannah as revealed by geolocators
Published in
Movement Ecology, August 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40462-017-0109-x
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Mathilde Lerche-Jørgensen, Mikkel Willemoes, Anders P. Tøttrup, Katherine Rachel Scotchburn Snell, Kasper Thorup

Abstract

For most Afro-Palearctic migrants, particularly small songbirds, spatiotemporal migration schedules and migratory connectivity remain poorly understood. We mapped migration from breeding through winter of one of the smallest Afro-Palearctic migrants, the willow warbler Phylloscopus trochilus, using geolocators (n = 15). Birds migrated from North European breeding grounds to West Africa via the Iberian Peninsula following a narrow corridor along the West Coast of Africa. Birds then dispersed across the northern Savannah with termination of migration highly variable among individuals. The termination of migration appeared not to be related to timing, current and previous years' vegetation conditions or biometrics. During winter, most birds moved southwards to improved vegetation. The willow warblers showed a large, unexpected longitudinal spread in winter sites of more than 3000 km between individuals breeding within a 500 m range resulting in a low degree of connectivity. The large wintering area may well be related to generalist behaviour in the species. Our findings contribute to understanding the link between breeding and wintering ecology in long-distance migratory birds.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 78 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 28%
Researcher 12 15%
Student > Bachelor 11 14%
Student > Master 9 12%
Other 4 5%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 13 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 44 56%
Environmental Science 10 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 1%
Computer Science 1 1%
Other 2 3%
Unknown 17 22%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 38. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 October 2018.
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#1,062,114
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