Does snowmelt constrain spring migration progression in sympatric wintering Arctic‐nesting geese? Results from a Far East Asia telemetry study

• Published in: Ibis
• Main Authors: Li, Hongbin, Fang, Lei, Wang, Xin, Yi, Kunpeng, Cao, Lei, Fox, Anthony D.
• Other Authors: National Natural Science Foundation of China
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Anadyr; Anadyr’; Anadyr'; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12767; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ibi.12767; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/ibi.12767

Telemetry data from sympatric Eastern Tundra Bean Geese Anser serrirostris captured on their winter quarters in the Yangtze River Floodplain, China, tracked to two discrete breeding areas (the Anadyr Region ( AR ) at 65°N and Central Russian Arctic ( CRA ) at 75°N) showed that, despite longer migrat...