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

• Main Authors: Kok, Eva M. A., Tibbitts, T. Lee, Douglas, David C., Howey, Paul W., Dekinga, Anne, Gnep, Benjamin, Piersma, Theunis
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Calidris canutus islandica; migrations; Greenland Icecap; Calidris canutus; Greenland; Red Knot
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.b8gtht795

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...