Shorebirds wintering in Southeast Asia demonstrate trans-Himalayan flights
Abstract Many birds wintering in the Indian subcontinent fly across the Himalayas during migration, including Bar-headed Geese ( Anser indicus ), Demoiselle Cranes ( Anthropoides virgo ) and Ruddy Shelducks ( Tadorna ferruginea ). However, little is known about whether shorebirds migrate across the...
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crspringernat:10.1038/s41598-020-77897-z 2023-05-15T17:47:21+02:00 Shorebirds wintering in Southeast Asia demonstrate trans-Himalayan flights Li, David Davison, Geoffrey Lisovski, Simeon Battley, Phil F. Ma, Zhijun Yang, Shufen How, Choon Beng Watkins, Doug Round, Philip Yee, Alex Srinivasan, Vupasana Teo, Clarice Teo, Robert Loo, Adrian Leong, Chee Chiew Er, Kenneth National Parks Board - Singapore 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77897-z http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77897-z.pdf http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77897-z en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Scientific Reports volume 10, issue 1 ISSN 2045-2322 Multidisciplinary journal-article 2020 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77897-z 2022-01-04T16:52:53Z Abstract Many birds wintering in the Indian subcontinent fly across the Himalayas during migration, including Bar-headed Geese ( Anser indicus ), Demoiselle Cranes ( Anthropoides virgo ) and Ruddy Shelducks ( Tadorna ferruginea ). However, little is known about whether shorebirds migrate across the Himalayas from wintering grounds beyond the Indian subcontinent. Using geolocators and satellite tracking devices, we demonstrate for the first time that Common Redshanks ( Tringa totanus ) and Whimbrels ( Numenius phaeopus ) wintering in Singapore can directly fly over the Himalayas to reach breeding grounds in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and north-central Russia respectively. The results also show that migratory shorebirds wintering in Southeast Asia can use both the Central Asian Flyway and the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. For Redshanks, westerly-breeding birds crossed the Himalayas while more easterly breeders on the Plateau migrated east of the Himalayas. For Whimbrels, an individual that crossed the Himalayas was probably from a breeding population that was different from the others that migrated along the coast up the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. The minimum required altitude of routes of trans-Himalayan Redshanks were no higher on average than those of eastern migrants, but geolocator temperature data indicate that birds departing Singapore flew at high elevations even when not required to by topography, suggesting that the Himalayan mountain range may be less of a barrier than assumed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Numenius phaeopus Springer Nature (via Crossref) Indian Scientific Reports 10 1 |
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Abstract Many birds wintering in the Indian subcontinent fly across the Himalayas during migration, including Bar-headed Geese ( Anser indicus ), Demoiselle Cranes ( Anthropoides virgo ) and Ruddy Shelducks ( Tadorna ferruginea ). However, little is known about whether shorebirds migrate across the Himalayas from wintering grounds beyond the Indian subcontinent. Using geolocators and satellite tracking devices, we demonstrate for the first time that Common Redshanks ( Tringa totanus ) and Whimbrels ( Numenius phaeopus ) wintering in Singapore can directly fly over the Himalayas to reach breeding grounds in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and north-central Russia respectively. The results also show that migratory shorebirds wintering in Southeast Asia can use both the Central Asian Flyway and the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. For Redshanks, westerly-breeding birds crossed the Himalayas while more easterly breeders on the Plateau migrated east of the Himalayas. For Whimbrels, an individual that crossed the Himalayas was probably from a breeding population that was different from the others that migrated along the coast up the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. The minimum required altitude of routes of trans-Himalayan Redshanks were no higher on average than those of eastern migrants, but geolocator temperature data indicate that birds departing Singapore flew at high elevations even when not required to by topography, suggesting that the Himalayan mountain range may be less of a barrier than assumed. |
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Li, David Davison, Geoffrey Lisovski, Simeon Battley, Phil F. Ma, Zhijun Yang, Shufen How, Choon Beng Watkins, Doug Round, Philip Yee, Alex Srinivasan, Vupasana Teo, Clarice Teo, Robert Loo, Adrian Leong, Chee Chiew Er, Kenneth |
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Li, David Davison, Geoffrey Lisovski, Simeon Battley, Phil F. Ma, Zhijun Yang, Shufen How, Choon Beng Watkins, Doug Round, Philip Yee, Alex Srinivasan, Vupasana Teo, Clarice Teo, Robert Loo, Adrian Leong, Chee Chiew Er, Kenneth |
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Shorebirds wintering in Southeast Asia demonstrate trans-Himalayan flights |
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Shorebirds wintering in Southeast Asia demonstrate trans-Himalayan flights |
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Shorebirds wintering in Southeast Asia demonstrate trans-Himalayan flights |
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Shorebirds wintering in Southeast Asia demonstrate trans-Himalayan flights |
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Shorebirds wintering in Southeast Asia demonstrate trans-Himalayan flights |
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shorebirds wintering in southeast asia demonstrate trans-himalayan flights |
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