A puzzling migratory detour : are fueling conditions in Alaska driving the movement of juvenile sharp-tailed sandpipers?

• Main Authors: A Lindstrom, R Gill Jr., S Jamieson, B McCaffery, L Wennerberg, M Wikelski, Marcel Klaassen
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Ecology; Zoology; calidris acuminate; migration; waders; body mass; fat stores; predation; age-segregated migration; Alaska; Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Ornithology; Calidris acuminata; DUNLINS CALIDRIS-ALPINA; WESTERN SANDPIPERS; AUTUMN MIGRATION; STOPOVER SITE; BIRDS; MASS; FAT; FLIGHTS; Detour; The Detour; Calidris alpina; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30040419; https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/A_puzzling_migratory_detour_are_fueling_conditions_in_Alaska_driving_the_movement_of_juvenile_sharp-tailed_sandpipers_/21001993

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...