Independent Fall Migration of First-Year and Older Wood Warblers

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• Stewart, P.A.

[edit] Journal

North American Bird Bander 8.4 (1983): 153-55.

[edit] Abstract

On Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas during the fall and winter of 1978-79, Stewart and Connor (1980) found Palm Warblers (Dendroica palmarum), even first-year birds, showing fixation to specific sites soon after arrival on their winter ground. The fixation of first-year birds to specific sites on their winter ground soon after arrival suggestetd the need for an inquiry as to whether the fixation might be inherited by the birds, guiding them to their winter ground in the first place. To determine whether hatching-year(H Y) wood warblers of different species go independently to their winter ground or follow after-hatching-year (AHY) birds there, data were examined of birds mist-netted at Kiptopeke Beach in eastern Virginia when enroute from their breeding to their winter ground.

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