Bird StudyНаучный журнал Bird Study включен в БД Скопус.http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/item/5372024-03-29T10:44:44Z2024-03-29T10:44:44ZUnusual clockwise loop migration lengthens travel distances and increases potential risks for a central Asian, long distance, trans-equatorial migrant, the Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinusKatzner, Todd E.Bragin, Evgeny A.Bragin, Alexander E.McGrady, MichaelMiller, Tricia A.Bildstein, Keith L.http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/item/5382020-11-29T21:03:26Z2016-08-17T00:00:00ZUnusual clockwise loop migration lengthens travel distances and increases potential risks for a central Asian, long distance, trans-equatorial migrant, the Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus
Katzner, Todd E.; Bragin, Evgeny A.; Bragin, Alexander E.; McGrady, Michael; Miller, Tricia A.; Bildstein, Keith L.
Capsule: Red-footed Falcons Falco vespertinus migrating from northern Kazakhstan proceed west before heading south to Africa; their northbound travel follows a different route with passage close to shooting hotspots in the Mediterranean.
Aim: To use tracking and ringing data to document for the first time the migration of globally threatened Red-footed Falcons from northern Kazakhstan.
Methods: Light-level geolocators were deployed on breeding adults in Kazakhstan and recovered one year later. Ringing and observational data from more than 100 years of Russian-language and other literature were summarized and mapped alongside the geolocator data.
Results: Geolocator, ringing and observational data together demonstrate that Red-footed Falcons from northern Kazakhstan have a clockwise loop migration that begins with a long and unusual westward trek around eastern Europe’s large inland seas before continuing to extreme southern Africa. Return migration is farther west and requires crossing two major migratory barriers: the Sahara and the Mediterranean.
Conclusion: The loop migration we describe requires an extensive longitudinal movement, exposes central Asian Red-footed Falcons to multiple desert, mountain and marine crossings, and, at outbound and return Mediterranean bottlenecks, crosses sites where raptor shooting is common.
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