One result of climate change is that spring is arriving earlier. However, migratory birds are not keeping up with these developments and arrive too late for the peak in food availability when it is time for breeding. By getting the birds to fly a little further north, researchers in Lund, Sweden, and the Netherlands have observed that these birds can give their chicks a better start in life.
arrives in Sweden. Could the problem be solved if the migratory birds simply came home and started breeding earlier?
To test this in practice, the researchers decided to help some pied flycatchers along the way. The research is published in the journalThe biologists caught pied flycatchers that had arrived prior to breeding in the Netherlands. The birds were then driven during the night to Vombs Fure, an area of pine forest outside Lund in Skåne, where they were released.
In addition, it was shown that the chicks of the Dutch pied flycatchers that had received migration assistance did not stop in the Netherlands when they returned after their firstmigration. Instead, they continued on to the area of pine forest outside Lund where they were born.
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