Converging migration routes of Eurasian hobbies Falco subbuteo crossing the African equatorial rain forest
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Converging migration routes of Eurasian hobbies Falco subbuteo crossing the African equatorial rain forest.
Autumn migration of adult Eurasian hobbies Falco subbuteo from Europe to southern Africa was recorded by satellite telemetry and observed routes were compared with randomly simulated routes. Two non-random features of observed routes were revealed: (i) shifts to more westerly longitudes than straight paths to destinations and (ii) strong route convergence towards a restricted area close to the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1202