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Transoceanic migration by a 12 g songbird

Overview of attention for article published in Biology Letters, April 2015
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48 news outlets
blogs
10 blogs
twitter
83 tweeters
weibo
2 weibo users
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10 Facebook pages
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
2 Google+ users
reddit
1 Redditor

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Title
Transoceanic migration by a 12 g songbird
Published in
Biology Letters, April 2015
DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2014.1045
Pubmed ID
25832815
Authors

William V. DeLuca, Bradley K. Woodworth, Christopher C. Rimmer, Peter P. Marra, Philip D. Taylor, Kent P. McFarland, Stuart A. Mackenzie, D. Ryan Norris

Abstract

Many fundamental aspects of migration remain a mystery, largely due to our inability to follow small animals over vast spatial areas. For more than 50 years, it has been hypothesized that, during autumn migration, blackpoll warblers (Setophaga striata) depart northeastern North America and undertake a non-stop flight over the Atlantic Ocean to either the Greater Antilles or the northeastern coast of South America. Using miniaturized light-level geolocators, we provide the first irrefutable evidence that the blackpoll warbler, a 12 g boreal forest songbird, completes an autumn transoceanic migration ranging from 2270 to 2770 km (mean ± s.d.: 2540 ± 257) and requiring up to 3 days (62 h ± 10) of non-stop flight. This is one of the longest non-stop overwater flights recorded for a songbird and confirms what has long been believed to be one of the most extraordinary migratory feats on the planet.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 2%
Netherlands 2 1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 187 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 49 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 39 20%
Student > Master 25 13%
Student > Bachelor 23 12%
Other 11 6%
Other 29 15%
Unknown 21 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 116 59%
Environmental Science 33 17%
Unspecified 3 2%
Chemistry 3 2%
Psychology 2 1%
Other 8 4%
Unknown 32 16%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 499. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 May 2023.
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#45,646
of 23,749,054 outputs
Outputs from Biology Letters
#54
of 3,284 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#450
of 265,894 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Biology Letters
#1
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