Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Experience drives innovation of new migration patterns of whooping cranes in response to global change

  • Claire S. Teitelbaum,
  • Sarah J. Converse,
  • William F. Fagan,
  • Katrin Böhning-Gaese,
  • Robert B. O’Hara,
  • Anne E. Lacy,
  • Thomas Mueller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12793
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Birds' migration pattern can shift due to changes in climate and habitat. Here, Teitelbaum and colleagues show that the experiences of older whooping cranes are important for generating new population-level migration behaviours in response to changes in the environment.