Data from: Migratory movements of Atlantic puffins Fratercula arctica naumanni from High Arctic Greenland ...

• Main Authors: Burnham, Kurt K., Burnham, Jennifer L., Johnson, Jeff A., Huffman, Abby
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Movebank Data Repository 2021
• Subjects: Fratercula arctica; animal movement; animal tracking; Atlantic puffin; avian migration; Fratercula arctica naumanni; geolocator; light-level logger; seabirds; Arctic; Greenland; fratercula
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.nr8qv005; https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.1317

Although the Atlantic puffin Fratercula arctica is well studied throughout its temperate and low Arctic breeding range, few have studied the species in its far northern distribution. This study is the first to present data on the migratory movements of the "large-billed" subspecies, F. a. naumanni, that breeds in the high Arctic and which has significantly larger body size than those farther south. During 2013–2015, migration tracks were collected from nine adult puffins (6 males and 3 females) tagged with geolocators in northwest Greenland. Overall, female puffins traveled farther than males on their annual migration, with one female puffin traveling over 13,600 km, which was nearly a third farther than any tagged male in our study. Differential migration was observed in migratory phenology and route, with males using a form of chain migration with acute synchrony between individuals while females appeared to largely use leap-frog migration and showed little synchrony between individuals. Extreme sexual ...