{"id":3650,"date":"2014-12-09T19:02:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T00:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2014-12-09T12:04:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T17:04:13","slug":"unique-woodpecker-species-where-male-travels-more-during-winter-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/unique-woodpecker-species-where-male-travels-more-during-winter-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique woodpecker species where male travels more during winter migration<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3651\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/norther-flicker.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3651\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3651\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/norther-flicker.png\" alt=\"Male northern flicker at the entrance to his cavity in Riske Creek, British Columbia. (Photo credit:  Elizabeth Gow)\" width=\"360\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/norther-flicker.png 360w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/norther-flicker-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Male northern flicker at the entrance to his cavity in Riske Creek, British Columbia. (Photo credit: Elizabeth Gow)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Female northern flickers, a woodpecker species who breeds during summer all across Canada, spends its winter farther north on average than males, according to a new study. Sex differences in migration distances are well known, but this is the first time researchers observed female birds that travel less distance than males.<\/p>\n<p>The authors believe this discrepancy is caused by the amount of parental care each bird provides. Northern flicker males invest more in parental care than females in this species, so they travel farther south in order to make sure they spend their winter in a warmer habitat with enough food.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1098\/rsos.140346\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>Royal Society Open Science\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>December 9<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Elizabeth Gow, University of Saskatchewan,\u00a0Saskatchewan<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female northern flickers, a woodpecker species who breeds during summer all across Canada, spends its winter farther north on average than males, according to a new study. Sex differences in migration distances are well known, but this is the first time researchers observed female birds that travel less distance than males. The authors believe this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3651,"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":[39,174,114,1810],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-birds","tag-saskatchewan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/norther-flicker.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-WS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","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=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}