Juvenile songbirds compensate for displacement to oceanic islands during autumn migration.
To what degree juvenile migrant birds are able to correct for orientation errors or wind drift is still largely unknown. We studied the orientation of passerines on the Faroe Islands far off the normal migration routes of European migrants. The ability to compensate for displacement was tested in na...
Main Authors: | Kasper Thorup, Troels Eske Ortvad, Jørgen Rabøl, Richard A Holland, Anders P Tøttrup, Martin Wikelski |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2011-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3064565?pdf=render |
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