Migration, wing morphometry and wing moult in Spanish and House Sparrows from the eastern Balkan Peninsula
Hahn, Steffen ; Dimitrov, Dimitar ; Emmenegger, Tamara LU
; Ilieva, Mihaela
LU
; Peev, Strahil
; Zehtindjiev, Pavel
and Briedis, Martins
(2019)
In Journal of Ornithology
160(1).
p.271-274
- Abstract
On the Balkan Peninsula, migratory Spanish Sparrows breed sympatrically with resident House Sparrows. While the two species share many biological and ecological traits, migratory patterns and adaptions to migratory lifestyle of the Spanish Sparrow are unknown. We tracked a Spanish Sparrow across its 1800 km long migration from Bulgaria to the nonbreeding sites in the Nile Delta. Stopovers were situated in western Turkey, before and after the 12 h-nonstop flights across the Mediterranean Sea. We show similar wing morphology in Spanish and House Sparrows indicating little adaptation to migration. However, Spanish Sparrows moult primaries earlier and faster allowing for timely migratory departure.
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- author
- Hahn, Steffen
; Dimitrov, Dimitar
; Emmenegger, Tamara
LU
; Ilieva, Mihaela
LU
; Peev, Strahil
; Zehtindjiev, Pavel
and Briedis, Martins
- publishing date
- 2019-01-31
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- keywords
- Biometrics, Geolocation, Moult duration, Nonbreeding, Passer domesticus, Passer hispaniolensis, Short-distance migration
- in
- Journal of Ornithology
- volume
- 160
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 271 - 274
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:85060576539
- ISSN
- 2193-7192
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10336-018-1597-1
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Funding Information: The study has been supported by the DO-G to SH (14.12.2009), the Swiss Federal Office for Environment (UTF 254.08.08) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF31003A_160265). Field work had been carried out under permission 243/01.03.2010 (Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Waters). This study is Report No. 64 of the Biological Experimental Station ‘Kalimok’. Funding Information: Acknowledgements The study has been supported by the DO-G to SH (14.12.2009), the Swiss Federal Office for Environment (UTF 254.08.08) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF31003A_160265). Field work had been carried out under permission 243/01.03.2010 (Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Waters). This study is Report No. 64 of the Biological Experimental Station ‘Kalimok’. Publisher Copyright: © 2018, Dt. Ornithologen-Gesellschaft e.V.
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