Seasonal micro-migration in a farm-island population of striated caracaras (Phalcoboenus australis) in the Falkland Islands

• Published in: Movement Ecology
• Main Authors: Katie J. Harrington, Suzan Pole-Evans, Micky Reeves, Marc Bechard, Melissa Bobowski, David R. Barber, Kalinka Rexer-Huber, Nicolas Lecomte, Keith L. Bildstein
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2018
• Subjects: Movement ecology; Phalcoboenus australis; Island population; Short distance; Seasonal; Space use; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Austral; Saunders; Saunders Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-018-0122-8; https://doaj.org/article/90c64707b79e4c869775624088d10117

Abstract Background The extent to which seasonal changes in food availability affect small-scale movements in free-ranging populations of birds of prey is relatively little studied. Here we describe a seasonal “micro-migration” of a farm-island population of striated caracaras (Phalcoboenus australi...