A Puzzling Migratory Detour: Are Fueling Conditions in Alaska Driving the Movement of Juvenile Sharp-Tailed Sandpipers?

• Published in: The Condor
• Main Authors: Åke Lindström, Robert E. Gill, Sarah E. Jamieson, Brian McCaffery, Liv Wennerberg, Martin Wikelski, Marcel Klaassen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Ornithological Society 2011
• Subjects: Detour; The Detour; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2011.090171

Making a detour can be advantageous to a migrating bird if fuel-deposition rates at stopover sites along the detour are considerably higher than at stopover sites along a more direct route. One example of an extensive migratory detour is that of the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (Calidris acuminata), of wh...