The paradox of spoonbill migration: Most birds travel to where survival rates are lowest

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 837-844

  Lok, Tamar ^a,b   Overdijk, Otto ^c   Tinbergen, Joost M ^a   Piersma, Theunis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ)   (Netherlands)

^c Werkgroep Lepelaar ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Age differential migration; Behavioural plasticity; Eurasian spoonbill; Exploratory behaviour; Intraspecific competition; Movement; Optimal migration; Platalea leucorodia leucorodia; Winter philopatry

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FITNESS; HABITAT QUALITY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PHILOPATRY; PROBABILITY; SITE FIDELITY; SITE SELECTION; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF; WADER;

FRANCE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MAURITANIA; SENEGAL;

AVES; PLATALEA LEUCORODIA; PLATALEA LEUCORODIA LEUCORODIA; THRESKIORNITHIDAE;

EID: 80052702415     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.019     Document Type: Article

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