Migratory connectivity of Audubon's Shearwaters
Audubon's Shearwaters (Puffinus lherminieri) are a focus of two tracking projects. The first was initiated in 2008 in The Bahamas and the second was initiated in 2012 in Tobago.
Research
2008: Geolocators, migration, connectivity, Sargasso Sea; Exumas Cays, The Bahamas.
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2012: Geolocators, migration, connectivity; Little Tobago, Tobago.
Collaborators
Patrick Jodice, USGS South Carolina Cooperative Research Unit / Clemson University
Will Mackin, Guilford College/West Indian Seabird Atlas
Environment Management Authority of Tobago
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Funding
US Fish & Wildlife Service, USGS, and BirdsCaribbean through a grant from The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Support also was provided by Bahamas National Trust.
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Recent publications
Ramos R., Paiva V.H., Zajková Z., Precheur C., Fagundes A.I., Jodice P.G.R., Mackin W., Zino F., Bretagnolle V., González-Solís J. 2020. Spatial ecology of closely related taxa: the case of the little shearwater complex in the North Atlantic Ocean. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa045