A polar system of intercontinental bird migration

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Alerstam, Thomas, Bäckman, Johan, Gudmundsson, Gudmundur A., Hedenström, Anders, Henningsson, Sara, Karlsson, Håkan, Rosén, Mikael, Strandberg, Roine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Society Publishing 2007
• Subjects: Biological Sciences; bird migration; migratory connectivity; Arctic Ocean; Arctic birds; great circle orientation; Arctic; Bering Strait; Pacific; Breaker; Wrangel Island; Beaufort Sea; Tundra; Alaska; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/656956; https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.0633

Studies of birdmigration in the Beringia region of Alaska and eastern Siberia are of special interest for revealing the importance of bird migration between Eurasia and North America, for evaluating orientation principles used by the birds at polar latitudes and for understanding the evolutionary im...