{"id":2563,"date":"2014-07-26T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T21:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2014-07-26T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T21:35:14","slug":"wood-thrushes-leap-frog-during-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wood-thrushes-leap-frog-during-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood thrushes \u2018leap-frog\u2019 during migration<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2549\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/connectivitymapallbirds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2549\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2549\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/connectivitymapallbirds.jpg\" alt=\"Researchers using backpacks to track wood thrushes during migration found that the species which travel furthest north in summer are the same ones that travel furthest south in winter. (Photo credit: Emily McKinnon)\" width=\"400\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/connectivitymapallbirds.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/connectivitymapallbirds-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers using backpacks to track wood thrushes during migration found that the species which travel furthest north in summer are the same ones that travel furthest south in winter. (Photo credit: Emily McKinnon)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers have published the first detailed migratory map for different populations of wood thrushes. Over 100 birds were tracked using geolocators, a kind of \u2018bird backpack\u2019 that records sunrise and sunset times. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Among other things, researchers found that the birds which travelled furthest north in the summer are also the ones that travel furthest south in winter, leap-frogging over other populations. Mapping migration routes provides information that is critically needed by conservationists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/cobi.12352\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Conservation Biology<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 22, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Emily McKinnon, York University,\u00a0Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bridget Stutchbury, York University, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have published the first detailed migratory map for different populations of wood thrushes. Over 100 birds were tracked using geolocators, a kind of \u2018bird backpack\u2019 that records sunrise and sunset times. Among other things, researchers found that the birds which travelled furthest north in the summer are also the ones that travel furthest south [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,114,1444,50],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-birds","tag-migration","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/connectivitymapallbirds.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Fl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2568,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}