Article
Is there a "migratory syndrome" common to all migrant birds?
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Jun 2005
Piersma Theunis, Pérez-Tris Javier, Mouritsen Henrik, Bauchinger Ulf, Bairlein Franz
Abstract excerpt
Bird migration has been assumed, mostly implicitly, to represent a distinct class of animal behavior, with deep and strong homologies in the various phenotypic expressions of migratory behavior between different taxa. Here the evidence for the existence of what could be called a "migratory syndrome," a tightly integrated, old group of adaptive traits that enables birds to commit themselves to highly organized...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animal Migration
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Birds
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny