Bird orientation at high latitudes: Flight routes between Siberia and North America across the Arctic Ocean

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1437, 1999, Pages 2499-2505

  Alerstam, Thomas ^a   Gudmundsson, Gudmundur A ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ICELANDIC INSTITUTE OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Bird flight routes; Bird migration; Bird orientation; Great circle orientation; Magnetic compass; Sun compass

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; MIGRATION; ORIENTATION; POLAR REGION;

ARTICLE; BIRD; FLIGHT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SUN; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

CALIDRIS MELANOTUS; PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS;

EID: 0033596273     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0952     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Åkesson, S., Ottosson, U. & Sandberg, R. 1995 Bird orientation: displacement experiments with young autumn migrating wheatears, Oenanthe oenanthe, along the Arctic coast of Russia. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 262, 189-195.
2. Alerstam, T. 1990 Ecological causes and consequences of bird orientation. Experientia 46, 405 415.
3. Alerstam, T. 1999 Bird migration performance on the basis of flight mechanics and trigonometry. In Biomechanics and behaviour (ed. P. Domenici & R. Blake). Oxford, UK: Bios Scientific Publishers. (In the press.)
4. Alerstam, T. & Gudmundsson, G. A. 1999 Migration patterns of tundra birds: tracking radar observations along the Northeast Passage. Arctic 52. (In the press.)
5. Alerstam, T. & Pettersson, S.-G. 1991 Orientation along great circles by migrating birds using a sun compass. J. Theor. Biol. 152, 191 202.
6. Batschelet, E. 1981 Circular statistics in biology. New York: Academic Press.
7. Berthold, P. (ed.) 1991 Orientation in birds. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser.
8. Emlen, S. T. 1975 Migration: orientation and navigation. In Avian biology, vol. 5 (ed. D. S. Farner & J. R. King), pp. 129-219. New York: Academic Press.
9. Gill Jr, R. E. & Handel, C. M. 1990 The importance of Subarctic intertidal habitats to shorebirds: a study of the central Yukon Kuskokwim delta, Alaska. Condor 92, 709 725.
10. Gill Jr, R. E. & Senner, S. E. 1996 Alaska and its importance to western hemisphere shorebirds. Int. Wader Stud. 8, 8-14.
11. Grönlund, E. & Melander, O. (ed.) 1995 Swedish-RussianTundra Ecology-Expedition 94. Stockholm: Swedish Polar Research Secretariat.
12. Gudmundsson, G. A. & Alerstam, T. 1998a Optimal map projections for analysing long-distance migration routes. J. Avian Biol. 29, 597-605.
13. Gudmundsson, G. A. & Alerstam, T. 1998b Why is there no transpolar bird migration? J. Avian Biol. 29, 93-96.
14. Gwinner, E. 1996 Circadian and circannual programmes in avian migration. J. Exp. Biol. 199, 39 48.
15. Gwinner, E. & Wiltschko, W. 1978 Endogenously controlled changes in migratory direction of the garden warbler, Sylvia borin. J. Comp. Physiol. 125, 267-273.
16. Hoffman, K. 1954 Versuche zu der im Richtungsfinden der Vögel enthaltenen Zeitschätzung. Z. Tierpsychol. 11, 453-475.
17. Kiepenheuer, J. 1984 The magnetic compass mechanism of birds and its possible association with the shifting course directions of migrants. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 14, 81-99.
18. Mouritsen, H. 1998 Modelling migration: the clock-and-compass model can explain the distribution of ringing recoveries. Anim. Behav. 56, 899 907.
19. Peddie, N. W. 1993 The magnetic field of the Earth, 1990. Denver, CO: US Geological Survey.
20. Raboøl, J. 1978 One-direction orientation versus goal area navigation in migratory birds. Oikos 30, 216-223.
21. Sandberg, R. & Holmquist, B. 1998 Orientation and long-distance migration routes: an attempt to evaluate compass cue limitations and required precision. J. Avian Biol. 29, 626-636.
22. Sandberg, R., Ottosson, U. & Pettersson, J. 1991 Magnetic orientation of migratory wheatears (Oenanthe oenanthe) in Sweden and Greenland. J. Exp. Biol. 155, 51-64.
23. Sandberg, R., Bäckman, J. & Ottosson, U. 1998 Orientation of show buntings (Plectrophenax nivalis) close to the magnetic North Pole. J. Exp. Biol. 201, 1859-1870.
24. Schmidt-Koenig, K. 1958 Experimentelle Einflussnahme auf die 24 Stunden-Periodik bei Brieftauben und deren Auswirkungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Heimfindevermögens. Z. Tierpsychol. 15, 301-331.
25. Wiltschko, R. & Wiltschko, W. 1990 Zur Entwicklung der Sonnenkompassorientierung bei jungen Brieftauben. J. Ornithol. 131, l-19.
26. Wiltschko, R. & Wiltschko, W. 1995 Magnetic orientation in animals. Berlin: Springer.
27. Wiltschko, W, Weindler, P. & Wiltschko, R. 1998 Interaction of magnetic and celestial cues in the migratory orientation of passerines. J. Avian Biol. 29, 606 617.