Supplementary material from "Migrating ospreys use thermal uplift over the open sea"
Most large raptors on migration avoid crossing the sea because of the lack of atmospheric convection over temperate seas. The osprey Pandion haliaetus is an exception among raptors, since it can fly over several hundred kilometres of open water. We equipped five juvenile ospreys with GPS-Acceleromet...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4318610 2023-05-15T18:50:55+02:00 Supplementary material from "Migrating ospreys use thermal uplift over the open sea" Duriez, Olivier PERON, Guillaume Gremillet, David Sforzi, Andrea Monti, Flavio 2018 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4318610 https://figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Migrating_ospreys_use_thermal_uplift_over_the_open_sea_/4318610 unknown Figshare https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0687 CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Ecology FOS Biological sciences 60801 Animal Behaviour Collection article 2018 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4318610 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0687 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Most large raptors on migration avoid crossing the sea because of the lack of atmospheric convection over temperate seas. The osprey Pandion haliaetus is an exception among raptors, since it can fly over several hundred kilometres of open water. We equipped five juvenile ospreys with GPS-Accelerometer-Magnetometer loggers. All birds were able to find and use thermal uplift while crossing the Mediterranean Sea, on average 7.5 times per 100 km, and could reach altitudes of 900 m above the sea surface. Their climb rate was 1.6 times slower than over land, and birds kept flapping most of the time while circling in the thermals, indicating that convections cells were weaker than over land. The frequency of thermal soaring was correlated with the difference between the sea surface and air temperature, indicating that atmospheric convection occurred when surface waters were warmer than the overlaying air. These observations help explain the transoceanic cosmopolitan distribution of osprey, and question the widely held assumption that water bodies represent strict barriers for large raptors. Article in Journal/Newspaper osprey Pandion haliaetus DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Most large raptors on migration avoid crossing the sea because of the lack of atmospheric convection over temperate seas. The osprey Pandion haliaetus is an exception among raptors, since it can fly over several hundred kilometres of open water. We equipped five juvenile ospreys with GPS-Accelerometer-Magnetometer loggers. All birds were able to find and use thermal uplift while crossing the Mediterranean Sea, on average 7.5 times per 100 km, and could reach altitudes of 900 m above the sea surface. Their climb rate was 1.6 times slower than over land, and birds kept flapping most of the time while circling in the thermals, indicating that convections cells were weaker than over land. The frequency of thermal soaring was correlated with the difference between the sea surface and air temperature, indicating that atmospheric convection occurred when surface waters were warmer than the overlaying air. These observations help explain the transoceanic cosmopolitan distribution of osprey, and question the widely held assumption that water bodies represent strict barriers for large raptors. |
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Supplementary material from "Migrating ospreys use thermal uplift over the open sea" |
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