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Ornithological Science
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Abstract
Abstract
East Asian songbirds are known to migrate along two major corridors: from mainland Eurasia via China to South-East Asia, and from Japan and easternmost Russia through chains of islands in the Pacific to Indonesia and the Philippines. We successfully tracked the hitherto unknown migration of a Blue-and-white Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana breeding in the Russian Far East. The bird spent five months on Mindoro Island in the Philippines during the non-breeding season and migrated through Taiwan, the Chinese east coast, and the Korean peninsula. Thus, we provide the first direct evidence for songbird migration from mainland Russia to the Philippines.
Geolocator tracking was possible under permission # 326 of FSTEC (Federal Service for Technical and Export Control) of the Russian Federation.
The authors thank Marc Bastardot, Leo Damrow, Friederike Kunz and Vera Volkova for their fieldwork support. We give special thanks to Alexander Thomas for providing recordings of the species and to Dora Schilling for making a decoy, both of which facilitated catching the birds efficiently. We further acknowledge the provision of rings and information on ring recoveries by the Bird Ringing Centre of Russia.
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