La Tour du Valat

Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Titre :	Stopover sites of Bewick's Swans Cygnus bewickii identified with GPS loggers
Auteurs :	Bart Nolet, Auteur ; Andrea Koelzsch, Auteur ; Kees Oosterbeek, Auteur ; Peter de Vries, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Limosa (87(2-3) 2014)
Article en page(s) :	149-155
Résumé :	In the classical approach, counts are used to designate sites as important stopovers of migratory birds. Now that individual birds can be tracked on migration by high-tech means, we can also determine which sites are visited most often and/or for the longest periods by tagged birds. The advantage of this alternative method is that remote places will not be underrepresented. Here we illustrate this method with data of Bewick's Swans Cygnus bewickii carrying GPS loggers. In winter 2010/11 a total of 30 Bewick's Swans were caught with cannon nets. Of these, 13 adult females were equipped with neck collars with built-in GPS data-logger (75 g in total), which logged GPS locations (

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