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SUBMITTER: Wang X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5824675 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PeerJ 20180220
The degree of inhospitable terrain encountered by migrating birds can dramatically affect migration strategies and their evolution as well as influence the way we develop our contemporary flyway conservation responses to protect them. We used telemetry data from 44 tagged individuals of four large-bodied, Arctic breeding waterbird species (two geese, a swan and one crane species) to show for the first time that these birds fly non-stop over the Far East taiga forest, despite their differing ecol ...[more]