Stable isotope analyses of feathers help identify autumn stopover sites of three long-distance migrants in northeastern Africa

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 235-241

  Yohannes, Elizabeth ^a   Hobson, Keith A ^b   Pearson, David J ^c   Wassenaar, Leonard I ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Environment Canada ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATHER; MIGRATION ROUTE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STOPOVER;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ACROCEPHALUS PALUSTRIS; DASYNOTUS; LOCUSTELLA FLUVIATILIS; SYLVIA COMMUNIS;

EID: 19444370231     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2005.03403.x     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Ambrose, S. H. 1991. Effects of diet, climate and physiology on nitrogen isotope abundance in terrestrial food webs. - J. Arch. Sci. 18: 293-317.
2. Ambrose, S. H. and DeNiro, M. J. 1989. Climate and habitat reconstruction using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of collagen in prehistoric herbivore teeth from Kenya. - Quat. Res. 31: 407-422.
3. Ash, J. S. 1973. Luscinia megarhynchos and L. luscinia in Ethiopia. - Ibis 115: 267-269.
4. Ash J. S. 1974. Autumn migration in eastern Ethiopia. - In: Frith H. J and Calaby J.H. (eds). XVI Int. Orn. Congr., Canberra: 313.
5. Ash, J. S. 1977. Four species of birds new to Ethiopia and other notes. - Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 97: 4-9.
6. Ash J. S. 1980. Migrational status of Palaearctic birds in Ethiopia. - In: Johnson D.N. (ed.). Proc. IV Pan-Afr. Orn. Congr.: 199-208.
7. Ash, J. S. 1981. Bird-ringing results and ringed bird recoveries in Ethiopia. - Scopus 5: 85-101.
8. Ash, J. S. and Miskell, J. E. 1983. Birds of Somalia, their habitat, status and distribution. - Scopus (spec. suppl.) 1: 1-97.
9. Backhurst G. C. and Pearson D. J. 1984 The timing of southward night of Palaearctic birds at Ngulia, Southeast Kenya. - Proc. V Pan-Afr. Orn. Congr.: 361-369.
10. Berthold, P. and Leisler, B. 1980. Migratory restlessness of the marsh warbler Acrocephalus palustris. A reflection of its unusual migration. - Naturwissenschaften 67: 472.
11. Bowen, J. G and Revenaugh, J. 2003. Interpolating the isotopic composition of modern meteoric precipitation. - Water Resource Res. 39: 1299.
12. Chamberlain, C. P., Bensch, S., Feng, X., Åkesson, S. and Andersson, T. 2000. Stable isotopes examined across a migratory divide in Scandinavian willow warblers (Phylloscopus trochilus trochilus and Phylloscopus trochilus acredula) reflect their African winter quarters. - Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 267: 43-48.
13. Chamberlain, C. P., Blum, J. D., Holmes, R. T., Feng, X., Sherry, T. W. and Graves, G. R. 1997. The use of stable isotope tracers for identifying population of migratory birds. - Oecologia 109: 132-141.
14. Cramp S. 1988. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: the birds of the western Palaearctic. Vol. V. Tyrant Flycatchers to Thrushes. - Oxford, Oxford University Press.
15. Cramp S. and Perrins C. M. 1992. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: the birds of the western Palaearctic. Vol. VI. Warblers. - Oxford, Oxford University Press.
16. Curry-Lindahl, K. 1981. Bird migration in Africa. Vol. 1. - Academic Press, London.
17. Dementiev, R. J. and Gladkov, N. A. 1968. Birds of the Soviet Union. Vol. 6. - Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem.
18. Dowsett, R. J. 1973. The river warbler Locustella fluviatilis in Africa. - Zambia Mus. J. 3: 69-77.
19. Dowsette-Lemaire, F. 1989. The imitative range of the song of the marsh warblers Acrocephalus palustris with special reference to imitations of African birds. - Ibis 121: 453-468.
20. Dowsette-Lemaire, F. and Dowsette, R. J. 1987. European reed and marsh warblers in Africa: migration patterns, moult and habitat. - Ostrich 58: 65-85.
21. Ehleringer, J. R. and Cooper, T. A. 1988. Correlation between carbon isotope ratio and microhabitat in desert plants. - Oecologia 76: 562-566.
22. Fry, C. H., Ash, J. S. and Ferguson-Lees, J. 1970. Spring weights of some Palaearctic migrants at Lake Chad. - Ibis 112: 58-82
23. Hanmer, D. B. 1979. A trapping study of Palaearctic passerines at Nchalo, southern Malawi. - Scopus 3: 81-92.
24. 14N ratios in plants in South Africa and Namibia: relation to climate and coastal/saline environments. - Oecologia 74: 236-246.
25. Heaton, T. H. E., Vogel, J. C., von la Chevallerie, G. and Gollet, G. 1986. Climate change influences the isotopic composition of bone nitrogen. - Nature 322: 822-823.
26. Hobson, K. A. 1999. Tracing origins and migration of wildlife using stable isotopes: a review. - Oecologia 120: 314-326.
27. 13C in tissues. - Condor 94: 181-188.
28. Hobson, K. A. and Wassenaar, L. I. 1997. Linking breeding and wintering grounds of neotropical migrants using stable H isotopic analysis of feathers. - Oecologia 109: 142-148.
29. Hobson, K. A. and Wassenaar, L. I. 2001. Isotopic delineation of North American migratory wildlife populations: loggerhead shrikes. - Ecol. Appl. 11: 1545-1553.
30. Hobson, K. A., Mc Farland, K. P., Wassenaar, L. I., Christopher, C. R. and Goetz, J. E. 2001. Linking breeding and wintering grounds of Bicknell's thrushes using stable isotope analysis of feathers. - Auk 118: 16-23.
31. Hobson, K. A., Wassenaar, L. I., Milá, B. I. L., Dingle, C. and Smith, T. B. 2003. Stable isotopes as indicators of altitudinal distributions and movements in an Ecuadorean hummingbird community. - Oecologia 136: 302-308.
32. International Atomic Energy Agency 1994. Environmental isotope data No. 10: World survey of isotope concentration in precipitation (1988-1991). - International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna.
33. International Atomic Energy Agency 2001. GNIP maps and animations (accessible at: http://isohis.iaea.org). - IAEA, Vienna.
34. Jordano, P. 1981. Alimentación y relaciones tróficas entre los paseriformes en paso otoñal por una localidad de Andalucía central. - Doñana Acta Vertebrata 8: 103-124.
35. Kelly, J. F., Atudorei, V., Sharp, Z. D. and Finch, D. M. 2002. Insight into Wilson's warbler migration from analyses of hydrogen stable isotope ratios. - Oecologia 130: 216-221.
36. Kelsey, M. G., Backhurst, G. C. and Pearson, D. J. 1989. Age differences in the timing and biometrics of migrating marsh warblers in Kenya. - Ring. and Migr. 10: 41-47.
37. Koch, P. L., Heisinger, J., Moss, C., Carlson, R., Fogel, M. L. and Behrensmeyer, A. K. 1995. Isotopic tracking of change in diet and habitat use in African elephants. - Science 267: 1340-1343.
38. Marra, P. P., Hobson, K. A. and Holmes, R. T. 1998. Linking winter and summer events in a migratory bird by using stable-carbon isotopes. - Science 282: 1884-1886.
39. 15N enrichment of feathers of 11 species of adult birds. - Ecology 73: 1391-1395.
40. Mizutani, H., Fukuda, M. and Wada, E. 1990. Carbon isotope ratios of feathers reveal feeding behaviour of cormorants. - Auk 107: 400-437.
41. Møller, A. P. and Hobson, K. A. 2004. Heterogeneity in stable isotope profiles predicts coexistence of populations of barn swallows Hirundo rustica differing in morphology and reproductive performance. - Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 271: 1355-1362.
42. Moreau, R. E. 1972. The Palearctic-African bird migration system. - Academic Press, London and New York.
43. Nikolaus, G. 1983. An important passerine ringing site near the Sudan Red Sea coast. - Scopus 7: 15-18.
44. Nikolaus, G. and Pearson, D. J. 1982. Autumn passage of marsh warblers Acrocephalus palustris and sprossers Luscinia luscinia on the Sudan Red Sea coast. - Scopus 6: 17-19.
45. Pain, D. J., Green, R. E., Gießing, B., Kozulin, A., Poluda, A., Ottosson, U., Flade, M. and Hilton., G. M. 2004. Using stable isotopes to investigate migratory connectivity of the globally threatened aquatic warbler Acrocephalus paludicola. - Oecologia 128: 168-174.
46. Pearson, D. J. 1973. Moult of some Palearctic warblers wintering in Uganda. - Bird Study 20: 24-36.
47. Pearson, D. J. 1975. The timing of complete moult in the great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus. - Ibis 117: 506-509
48. Pearson, D. J. 1978. The genus Sylvia in Kenya and Uganda. - Scopus 2: 63-71.
49. Pearson, D. J. 1982. The migration and wintering of Palaearctic Acrocephalus warblers in Kenya and Uganda. - Scopus 6: 49-59.
50. Pearson, D. J. 1990. Palaearctic passerine migrants in Kenya and Uganda: temporal and spatial patterns of their movements. - In: Gwinner, E. (ed.). Bird migration: physiology and ecophysiology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 44-59.
51. Pearson, D. J. and Backhurst, G. C. 1976a. The southward migration of Palaearctic birds over Ngulia, Kenya. - Ibis 118: 78-105.
52. Pearson, D. J. and Backhurst, G. C. 1976b. Palaearctic passerine migration at Kariobangi, Nairobi. - EANHS Bull. 1976: 23-28.
53. Pearson, D. J. and Backhurst, G. C. 1983. Moult of the river warbler Locustella fluviatilis. - Ring. and Migr. 4: 227-230.
54. Pearson, D. J., Backhurst, G. C. and Backhurst, D. E. G. 1979. Spring weights and passage of sedge warblers Acrocephalus schoenobaenus in Central Kenya. - Ibis 121: 8-19.
55. Pearson D. J., Nikolaus G. and Ash J. S. 1988. The southward migration of Palaearctic passerines through northeast and east tropical Africa: a review. - Proc. VI Pan-Afr. Orn. Congr.: 243-262.
56. Rubenstein, D. R. and Hobson, K. A. 2004. From birds to butterflies: animal movement patterns and stable isotopes. - Trends Ecol. Evol. 19: 256-263.
57. Rubenstein, D. R., Chamberlain, C. P., Holmes, R. T., Ayres, M. P., Waldbauer, J. R., Graves, G. R. and Tuross, N. C. 2002. Linking breeding and wintering ranges of a migratory songbird using stable isotopes. - Science 295: 1062-1065.
58. Sealy, J. C., Van der Merwe, N. J., Lee-Thorp, J. A. and Lanhamm, J. L. 1987. Nitrogen isotope ecology in southern Africa: implications for environmental and dietary tracing. - Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 51: 2707-2717.
59. 12C ratios in higher plants. - Plant Physiol. 47: 380-384.
60. Sokal, R. R and Rohlf, F. J. 2000. Biometry: the principles and practice of statistics in biological research, Third Edition. - W. H. Freeman and Company, New York.
61. Still, C. J., Berry, J. A., Collatz, G. J. and DeFries., R. S. 2003. Global distribution of C3 and C4 vegetation: carbon cycle implications. - Global Biogeochem. Cycle 17: 1006-1029.
62. Van der Merwe, N. J., Lee-Thorp, J. A., Thackeray, J. F., Hall-Martin, A., Kruger, F. J., Coetzee, H., Bell, R. H. and Lindeque, M. 1990. Source-area determination of elephant ivory by isotopic analysis. - Nature 346: 744-746.
63. Wassenaar, L. I. and Hobson, K. A. 2000. Stable-carbon and hydrogen isotope ratios reveal breeding origins of redwinged blackbirds. - Ecol. Appl. 10: 911-916.
64. Wassenaar, L. I. and Hobson, K. A. 2003. Comparative equilibration and online technique for determination of non-exchangeable hydrogen of keratins for use in animal migration studies. - Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 39: 211-217.