A 30,000-km journey by Apus apus pekinensis tracks arid lands between northern China and south-western Africa

• Published in: Movement Ecology
• Main Authors: Zhao, Yanyan, Zhao, Xinru, Wu, Lan, Mu, Tong, Yu, Fang, Kearsley, Lyndon, Liang, Xuan, Fu, Jianping, Hou, Xiaoru, Peng, Peng, Li, Xiaoyang, Zhang, Tao, Yan, Su, Newell, Dick, Hewson, Chris M., Townshend, Terry, Åkesson, Susanne, Liu, Yang
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2022
• Subjects: Research; Detour; Apus apus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9245314/; https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-022-00329-2

BACKGROUND: As a widely distributed and aerial migratory bird, the Common Swift (Apus apus) flies over a wide geographic range in Eurasia and Africa during migration. Although some studies have revealed the migration routes and phenology of European populations, A. a. apus (from hereon the nominate...