Advances in tracking small migratory birds: a technical review of lightlevel geolocation

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  • Eli S. Bridge
  • Jeffrey F. Kelly
  • Andrea Contina
  • Richard M. Gabrielson
  • Robert B. MacCurdy
  • David W. Winkler
چکیده

Light-level geolocation data loggers, or geologgers, have recently been miniaturized to the extent that they can be deployed on small songbirds, allowing us to determine many previously unknownmigration routes, breeding locations, and wintering sites. Use of geologgers on small birds has great potential to help address major research and conservation questions, but the method is not without its shortcomings. Among these shortcomings are the need to recapture birds after they have carried a device throughout a migration cycle and the potential for the devices to affect survival and behavior. We examined return rates of birds with geologgers in published and unpublished studies and found no evidence of a general negative effect of geologgers on survival, although there were a few individual studies where such an effect was evident. From these same studies, we found that most currently used harness materials are equivalent in terms of failure rates, and the most reliable geologgers are those made by the British Antarctic Survey (although these were also the largest geologgers used in the studies we examined). With regard to analysis methods, we believe there is much room for improvement. Use of online archiving of both data and analysis parameters would greatly improve the repeatability and transparency of geologger research. RESUMEN. Avances en el rastreo de pequeñas aves migratorias: una revisión técnica de geo-localizadores de niveles de luz Geo-localizadores de niveles de luz que registran datos, o geo-registradores, han sido recientementeminiaturizados para poder ser colocados en aves pequeñas, permitiéndonos comprobar muchos aspectos desconocidos como rutas migratorias, áreas de reproducción y lugares para pasar el invierno. El uso de los geo-registradores en aves pequeñas tienen un gran potencial para ayudar a responder grandes preguntas de investigación y conservación, pero el método no deja de tener sus defectos. Entre estos defectos están la necesidad de recapturar el ave después de que ha llevado este dispositivo a lo largo del ciclo de migración, y la capacidad que tiene este dispositivo para afectar la supervivencia y el comportamiento. Examinamos las tasas de retorno de aves con geo-registradores en art́ıculos publicados y sin publicar, y no encontramos efectos negativos de los geo-registradores en la supervivencia, aunque hubo algunos estudios en donde dicho efecto fue evidente. Dentro de estos mismo estudios encontramos que los materiales de los arneses usados con mayor frecuencia tuvieron tasas de fracaso equivalentes, y los más seguros fueron los fabricados por British Antarctic Survey (aunque estos también fueron los de mayor tamaño en los estudios que examinamos). Respecto a los métodos de anaĺıticos, creemos que hay mucho margen para mejorar. Utilizar recursos en ĺınea para archivar los datos y parámetros anaĺıticos mejoraŕıan en gran medida la transparencia y la capacidad reproducir investigaciones realizadas con georegistradores.

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تاریخ انتشار 2013