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Highly diversified habitats and resources influence habitat selection in wintering shorebirds
Jourdan, C.; Fort, J.; Pinaud, D.; Delaporte, P.; Gernigon, J.; Guenneteau, S.; Jomat, L.; Lelong, V.; Lemesle, J.-C.; Robin, F.; Rousseau, P.; Bocher, P. (2021). Highly diversified habitats and resources influence habitat selection in wintering shorebirds. J. Ornithol. 162(3): 823-838. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10336-021-01873-1
In: Journal of Ornithology. Springer: Berlin. ISSN 2193-7206
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Limosa lapponica (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Marien/Kust |
| Auteurs | | Top |
- Jourdan, C.
- Fort, J.
- Pinaud, D.
- Delaporte, P.
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- Gernigon, J.
- Guenneteau, S.
- Jomat, L.
- Lelong, V.
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- Lemesle, J.-C.
- Robin, F.
- Rousseau, P.
- Bocher, P.
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| Abstract |
Habitat selection is an important process in birds that influences individual survival and fitness, and ultimately shapes population dynamics. As a consequence, strong selective pressures apply to favor strategies allowing individuals to choose high-quality habitat for foraging while reducing predation risk and competition. In long-distance migratory birds, such as shorebirds, the non-breeding period is considered as a key period of their annual cycle with reported effects on individual survival and subsequent reproduction. Site selection by non-breeding shorebirds should depend on habitat quality for them to ensure survival until the next breeding season. More specifically, birds should distribute in space and time according to their resource availability and specialize on feeding habitats or/and prey to reduce intraspecific competition. To test this hypothesis, we studied Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica) at one of their main non-breeding sites along the French coast. We first used GPS tracking to investigate their foraging and roosting home ranges as well as core sampling to define the diversity of available habitats and their quality as feeding resources. We then compared individual habitat selection in relation to feeding home range sizes and benthic macrofauna abundances. Our results provide the first fine scale definition of shorebird movements and distribution along the non-breeding period. We found that godwits showed an extreme fidelity to restricted feeding areas (about 3.4 km2) during winter, with low overlap between individual feeding home ranges. Each bird appeared to mainly use 4–6 of the 11 available foraging habitats, with a specialization on 1 to 2 main habitats and their associated prey. However, our results did not emphasize a clear relationship between home range sizes and the quality of bird feeding sites. This study thus demonstrates the high specialization of individual non-breeding Bar-tailed godwits relying on specific foraging grounds and habitats, with important implications for the conservation of this species. |
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