First-Time Migration in Juvenile Common Cuckoos Documented by Satellite Tracking.
Being an obligate parasite, juvenile common cuckoos Cuculus canorus are thought to reach their African wintering grounds from Palearctic breeding grounds without guidance from experienced conspecifics but this has not been documented. We used satellite tracking to study naïve migrating common cuckoo...
Main Authors: | Marta Lomas Vega, Mikkel Willemoes, Robert L Thomson, Jere Tolvanen, Jarkko Rutila, Peter Samaš, Roine Strandberg, Tomáš Grim, Frode Fossøy, Bård Gunnar Stokke, Kasper Thorup |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2016-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5179092?pdf=render |
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