La Tour du Valat

Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Titre :	Migration and non-breeding distribution of Icelandic Whimbrels Numenius phaeopus islandicus as revealed by ringing recoveries
Auteurs :	Tómas Grétar Gunnarsson, Auteur ; Gudmundur A. Gudmundsson, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Wader Study (123(1) 2016)
Article en page(s) :	44-48
Résumé :	From the initiation of bird ringing in Iceland in 1921 to 2014, a total of 6,077 Whimbrels Numenius phaeopus have been ringed there, mostly (95%) as unfledged chicks. Of those, 35 have been recovered or sighted outside Iceland and 22 recovered in Iceland. A further four recoveries of Whimbrels ringed abroad have been made in Iceland. We use the distribution of those recoveries in space and time to infer the wintering grounds and migration routes of Icelandic-breeding Whimbrels. Of the 39 recovered Whimbrels, 21 were recovered or ringed in Europe and

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