Flying on their own wings: young and adult cuckoos respond similarly to long-distance displacement during migration

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Flying on their own wings : young and adult cuckoos respond similarly to long-distance displacement during migration. / Thorup, Kasper; Vega, Marta Lomas; Snell, Katherine Rachel Scotchburn; Lubkovskaia, Regina; Willemoes, Mikkel; Sjoberg, Sissel; Sokolov, Leonid; Bulyuk, Victor.

In: Scientific Reports, Vol. 10, No. 1, 7698, 2020.

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Thorup, K, Vega, ML, Snell, KRS, Lubkovskaia, R, Willemoes, M, Sjoberg, S, Sokolov, L & Bulyuk, V 2020, 'Flying on their own wings: young and adult cuckoos respond similarly to long-distance displacement during migration', Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 7698. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64230-x

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Thorup, K., Vega, M. L., Snell, K. R. S., Lubkovskaia, R., Willemoes, M., Sjoberg, S., Sokolov, L., & Bulyuk, V. (2020). Flying on their own wings: young and adult cuckoos respond similarly to long-distance displacement during migration. Scientific Reports, 10(1), [7698]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64230-x

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Thorup K, Vega ML, Snell KRS, Lubkovskaia R, Willemoes M, Sjoberg S et al. Flying on their own wings: young and adult cuckoos respond similarly to long-distance displacement during migration. Scientific Reports. 2020;10(1). 7698. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64230-x

Author

Thorup, Kasper ; Vega, Marta Lomas ; Snell, Katherine Rachel Scotchburn ; Lubkovskaia, Regina ; Willemoes, Mikkel ; Sjoberg, Sissel ; Sokolov, Leonid ; Bulyuk, Victor. / Flying on their own wings : young and adult cuckoos respond similarly to long-distance displacement during migration. In: Scientific Reports. 2020 ; Vol. 10, No. 1.

Bibtex

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abstract = "Common cuckoos Cuculus canorus are obligate nest parasites yet young birds reach their distant, species-specific wintering grounds without being able to rely on guidance from experienced conspecifics - in fact they never meet their parents. Naive marine animals use an inherited navigational map during migration but in inexperienced terrestrial animal migrants unequivocal evidence of navigation is lacking. We present satellite tracking data on common cuckoos experimentally displaced 1,800km eastward from Rybachy to Kazan. After displacement, both young and adult travelled similarly towards the route of non-displaced control birds. The tracking data demonstrate the potential for young common cuckoos to return to the species-specific migration route after displacement, a response so far reported exclusively in experienced birds. Our results indicate that an inherited map allows first-time migrating cuckoos to locate suitable wintering grounds. This is in contrast to previous studies of solitary terrestrial bird migrants but similar to that reported from the marine environment.",
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AU - Thorup, Kasper

AU - Vega, Marta Lomas

AU - Snell, Katherine Rachel Scotchburn

AU - Lubkovskaia, Regina

AU - Willemoes, Mikkel

AU - Sjoberg, Sissel

AU - Sokolov, Leonid

AU - Bulyuk, Victor

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N2 - Common cuckoos Cuculus canorus are obligate nest parasites yet young birds reach their distant, species-specific wintering grounds without being able to rely on guidance from experienced conspecifics - in fact they never meet their parents. Naive marine animals use an inherited navigational map during migration but in inexperienced terrestrial animal migrants unequivocal evidence of navigation is lacking. We present satellite tracking data on common cuckoos experimentally displaced 1,800km eastward from Rybachy to Kazan. After displacement, both young and adult travelled similarly towards the route of non-displaced control birds. The tracking data demonstrate the potential for young common cuckoos to return to the species-specific migration route after displacement, a response so far reported exclusively in experienced birds. Our results indicate that an inherited map allows first-time migrating cuckoos to locate suitable wintering grounds. This is in contrast to previous studies of solitary terrestrial bird migrants but similar to that reported from the marine environment.

AB - Common cuckoos Cuculus canorus are obligate nest parasites yet young birds reach their distant, species-specific wintering grounds without being able to rely on guidance from experienced conspecifics - in fact they never meet their parents. Naive marine animals use an inherited navigational map during migration but in inexperienced terrestrial animal migrants unequivocal evidence of navigation is lacking. We present satellite tracking data on common cuckoos experimentally displaced 1,800km eastward from Rybachy to Kazan. After displacement, both young and adult travelled similarly towards the route of non-displaced control birds. The tracking data demonstrate the potential for young common cuckoos to return to the species-specific migration route after displacement, a response so far reported exclusively in experienced birds. Our results indicate that an inherited map allows first-time migrating cuckoos to locate suitable wintering grounds. This is in contrast to previous studies of solitary terrestrial bird migrants but similar to that reported from the marine environment.

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