Book chapter
Migration and Navigation in Birds
Encyclopedia of Reproduction, pp.90-94
Elsevier Inc, Second Edition
2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/117778
Abstract
Migration allows birds to make use of resources that vary in space and time, such as food sources that are only available seasonally. Although birds express a range of migratory patterns, migration typically moves birds between wintering and breeding locations. Consequently, migration and breeding of often closely linked in the annual cycle of birds and must be timed to coincide with resource availability. Migration typically involves a period of physiological preparation prior to flight, migratory flight during which birds must navigate to their destination, and which may be punctuated by periods of refueling, and then arrival at the destination.
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Details
- Title
- Migration and Navigation in Birds
- Creators
- Heather E Watts - Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
- Publication Details
- Encyclopedia of Reproduction, pp.90-94
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Identifiers
- 99900574385601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter