Whimbrel populations differ in trans-atlantic pathways and cyclone encounters

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Watts, Bryan D., Smith, Fletcher M., Hines, Chance, Duval, Laura, Hamilton, Diana J., Keyes, Tim, Paquet, Julie, Pirie-Dominix, Lisa, Rausch, Jennie, Truitt, Barry, Winn, Brad, Woodard, Paul
• Other Authors: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Atlantic Flyway Shorebird Initiative, Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program at the Department of Environmental Quality, the New Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund, The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Non-game Section, the Environmental Resources Network, a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant, Polar Continental Shelf Program, the Cumulative Impacts Monitoring Program, The Nature Conservancy, Manomet, Inc.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
• Subjects: Multidisciplinary; Hudson Bay; Canada; Hudson; Mackenzie Delta; Whimbrel
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92429-z; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92429-z.pdf; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92429-z

Abstract Each year hundreds of millions of birds cross the Atlantic Ocean during the peak of tropical cyclone activity. The extent and consequences of migrant-storm interactions remain unknown. We tracked whimbrels from two populations (Mackenzie Delta; Hudson Bay) to examine overlap between migrati...