A red knot as a black swan:How a single bird shows navigational abilities during repeat crossings of the Greenland Icecap

Despite the wealth of studies on seasonal movements of birds between southern nonbreeding locations and High Arctic breeding locations, the key mechanisms of navigation during these migrations remain elusive. A flight along the shortest possible route between pairs of points on a sphere ('ortho...

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Published in:Journal of Avian Biology
Main Authors: Kok, Eva M. A., Tibbitts, T. Lee, Douglas, David C., Howey, Paul W., Dekinga, Anne, Gnep, Benjamin, Piersma, Theunis
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2020
Subjects:
migration
orientation
navigation
tracking
orthodrome
loxodrome
WHEATEARS OENANTHE-OENANTHE
MIGRATION ROUTES
SPRING MIGRATION
MAGNETIC ORIENTATION
COMPASS MECHANISMS
RADAR OBSERVATIONS
TAILED GODWITS
LONG
SUN
CANUTUS
Arctic
Greenland
Greenland Icecap
Red Knot
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/11370/47b01816-e212-417d-944d-4019f4499ad4
https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/47b01816-e212-417d-944d-4019f4499ad4
https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.02464
https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/135499240/jav.02464.pdf

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