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Main Authors: Karwinkel, Thiemo, Pollet, Ingrid L, Vardeh, Sandra, Loshchagina, Julia, Glazov, Petr, Kondratyev, Alexander, Sokolov, Aleksandr, Sokolov, Vasiliy, Morkūnas, Julius, Tritscher, Daniela J, Masello, Juan F, Eichhorn, Götz, Kruckenberg, Helmut, Quillfeldt, Petra, Bellebaum, Jochen
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: Ecology and evolution 2025
Online Access:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40177691/
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author Karwinkel, Thiemo
Pollet, Ingrid L
Vardeh, Sandra
Loshchagina, Julia
Glazov, Petr
Kondratyev, Alexander
Sokolov, Aleksandr
Sokolov, Vasiliy
Morkūnas, Julius
Tritscher, Daniela J
Masello, Juan F
Eichhorn, Götz
Kruckenberg, Helmut
Quillfeldt, Petra
Bellebaum, Jochen
author_facet Karwinkel, Thiemo
Pollet, Ingrid L
Vardeh, Sandra
Loshchagina, Julia
Glazov, Petr
Kondratyev, Alexander
Sokolov, Aleksandr
Sokolov, Vasiliy
Morkūnas, Julius
Tritscher, Daniela J
Masello, Juan F
Eichhorn, Götz
Kruckenberg, Helmut
Quillfeldt, Petra
Bellebaum, Jochen
Karwinkel, Thiemo
Pollet, Ingrid L
Vardeh, Sandra
Loshchagina, Julia
Glazov, Petr
Kondratyev, Alexander
Sokolov, Aleksandr
Sokolov, Vasiliy
Morkūnas, Julius
Tritscher, Daniela J
Masello, Juan F
Eichhorn, Götz
Kruckenberg, Helmut
Quillfeldt, Petra
Bellebaum, Jochen
collection PubMed - marine biology
contents Individual Variation in Migration and Wintering Patterns of Long-Tailed Ducks From a Population in Decline. Karwinkel, Thiemo Pollet, Ingrid L Vardeh, Sandra Loshchagina, Julia Glazov, Petr Kondratyev, Alexander Sokolov, Aleksandr Sokolov, Vasiliy Morkūnas, Julius Tritscher, Daniela J Masello, Juan F Eichhorn, Götz Kruckenberg, Helmut Quillfeldt, Petra Bellebaum, Jochen The population of long-tailed ducks has declined dramatically since the 1990s at the species' most important wintering area, the Baltic Sea. It is unclear if this represents a real population decline at the flyway level or merely a northward shift in the wintering range, with part of the population moving from the Baltic Sea to rarelysurveyed ice-free Arctic waters. To investigate wintering area choice and individual repeatability, we deployed light-level loggers on female long-tailed ducks at three breeding sites in the Western Russian Arctic across two annual cycles, from 2017 to 2019. We obtained data from 94 year-round migration tracks (78, 14 and 2 from each breeding site) from 65 females. Females moved from freshwater breeding sites to mostly marine post-breeding sites after wing moult. For wintering, the majority of the birds (94%) migrated to the Baltic Sea, while the rest overwintered in the White and Barents Seas. Spring migration involved staging at marine sites in the Arctic Ocean for most birds. Individual repeatability scores were high for longitudes of wintering sites, departure dates from breeding and wintering sites, and low for arrival dates at breeding and wintering sites. Therefore, our results suggest that the observed decline in the long-tailed duck wintering population in the Baltic Sea is unlikely the result of a shift in wintering range within individuals, so that a real decline in the population size remains the most parsimonious explanation. High repeatability values indicate that the substantial variation in wintering sites throughout the Baltic Sea is clearly attributable to between-individual variation rather than within-individual variation across years. Still, addressing the underlying causes of population decline remains a challenge for this Arctic-breeding species.
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spellingShingle Individual Variation in Migration and Wintering Patterns of Long-Tailed Ducks From a Population in Decline.
Karwinkel, Thiemo
Pollet, Ingrid L
Vardeh, Sandra
Loshchagina, Julia
Glazov, Petr
Kondratyev, Alexander
Sokolov, Aleksandr
Sokolov, Vasiliy
Morkūnas, Julius
Tritscher, Daniela J
Masello, Juan F
Eichhorn, Götz
Kruckenberg, Helmut
Quillfeldt, Petra
Bellebaum, Jochen
Individual Variation in Migration and Wintering Patterns of Long-Tailed Ducks From a Population in Decline. Karwinkel, Thiemo Pollet, Ingrid L Vardeh, Sandra Loshchagina, Julia Glazov, Petr Kondratyev, Alexander Sokolov, Aleksandr Sokolov, Vasiliy Morkūnas, Julius Tritscher, Daniela J Masello, Juan F Eichhorn, Götz Kruckenberg, Helmut Quillfeldt, Petra Bellebaum, Jochen The population of long-tailed ducks has declined dramatically since the 1990s at the species' most important wintering area, the Baltic Sea. It is unclear if this represents a real population decline at the flyway level or merely a northward shift in the wintering range, with part of the population moving from the Baltic Sea to rarelysurveyed ice-free Arctic waters. To investigate wintering area choice and individual repeatability, we deployed light-level loggers on female long-tailed ducks at three breeding sites in the Western Russian Arctic across two annual cycles, from 2017 to 2019. We obtained data from 94 year-round migration tracks (78, 14 and 2 from each breeding site) from 65 females. Females moved from freshwater breeding sites to mostly marine post-breeding sites after wing moult. For wintering, the majority of the birds (94%) migrated to the Baltic Sea, while the rest overwintered in the White and Barents Seas. Spring migration involved staging at marine sites in the Arctic Ocean for most birds. Individual repeatability scores were high for longitudes of wintering sites, departure dates from breeding and wintering sites, and low for arrival dates at breeding and wintering sites. Therefore, our results suggest that the observed decline in the long-tailed duck wintering population in the Baltic Sea is unlikely the result of a shift in wintering range within individuals, so that a real decline in the population size remains the most parsimonious explanation. High repeatability values indicate that the substantial variation in wintering sites throughout the Baltic Sea is clearly attributable to between-individual variation rather than within-individual variation across years. Still, addressing the underlying causes of population decline remains a challenge for this Arctic-breeding species.
title Individual Variation in Migration and Wintering Patterns of Long-Tailed Ducks From a Population in Decline.
url https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40177691/