A Puzzling Migratory Detour: Are Fueling Conditions In Alaska Driving The Movement Of Juvenile Sharp-Tailed Sandpipers?

• Published in: The Condor
• Main Authors: Lindström, Åke, Gill, Robert E., Jr., Jamieson, Sarah E., McCaffery, Brian, Wennerberg, Liv, Wikelski, Martin, Klaassen, Marcel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2011
• Subjects: Ecology; Calidris acuminata; migration; waders; body mass; fat stores; predation; age-segregated migration; Alaska; Detour; The Detour; Siberia
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1926092; https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2011.090171

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 wh...