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SUBMITTER: Guilford T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3140476 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guilford Tim T Freeman Robin R Boyle Dave D Dean Ben B Kirk Holly H Phillips Richard R Perrins Chris C
PloS one 20110720 7
Navigational control of avian migration is understood, largely from the study of terrestrial birds, to depend on either genetically or culturally inherited information. By tracking the individual migrations of Atlantic Puffins, Fratercula arctica, in successive years using geolocators, we describe migratory behaviour in a pelagic seabird that is apparently incompatible with this view. Puffins do not migrate to a single overwintering area, but follow a dispersive pattern of movements changing thr ...[more]