10.5061/DRYAD.QF20F
Eichhorn, Götz
Nederlands Instituut voor Ecologie
Bil, Willem
British Antarctic Survey
Fox, James W.
British Antarctic Survey
Data from: Individuality in northern lapwing migration and its link to
timing of breeding
Dryad
dataset
2017
northern lapwing
Vanellus vanellus
timing
distribution
Migratory Connectivity
lapwing
Wintering
Vanellus
Charadriidae
wader
Holocene
geolocation
2017-04-03T13:04:49Z
2017-04-03T13:04:49Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.01374
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We tracked eight adult northern lapwings, Vanellus vanellus, (six females
and two males) from a Dutch breeding colony by light-level geolocation
year-round, three of them for multiple years. We show that birds breeding
virtually next to each other may choose widely separated wintering
grounds, stretching from nearby the colony west towards the UK and
Ireland, and southwest through France into Iberia and Morocco. However,
individual lapwings appeared relatively faithful to a chosen wintering
area, and timing of outward and homeward migration can be highly
consistent between years. Movements of migratory individuals were usually
direct and fast, with some birds covering distances of approximately 2000
km within 2 to 4 days of travel. The two males wintered closest and
returned earliest to the breeding colony. The female lapwings returned
well before the onset of breeding, spending a pre-laying period of 19 to
54 days in the wider breeding area. Despite the potential for high
migration speeds, the duration that birds were absent from the breeding
area increased with distance to wintering areas, a pattern which was
mainly driven by an earlier outward migration of birds heading for more
distant wintering grounds. Moreover, females that overwintered closer to
colony bred earlier. A large variation in migration strategies found even
within a single breeding colony has likely supported the species’
responsiveness to recent climate change as evidenced by a shortened
migration distance and an advanced timing of reproduction in Dutch
lapwings since the middle of the 20th century.
Coordinates&DistancesThis file contains the estimated coordinates
(latitude, longitude) for each individual return migration and the
calculated distances to breeding colony.
The Netherlands
Morocco
Europe
Ireland
United Kingdom
North Sea
France
Wadden Sea
Germany
Spain