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DOI	10.1038/s41598-020-72970-z
	GPS-telemetry unveils the regular high-elevation crossing of the Himalayas by a migratory raptor: implications for definition of a Central Asian Flyway
	Kumar, Nishant; Gupta, Urvi; Jhala, Yadvendradev V.; Qureshi, Qamar; Gosler, Andrew G.; Sergio, Fabrizio
通讯作者	Kumar, N
来源期刊	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
ISSN	2045-2322
出版年	2020
卷号	10 期号:1
英文摘要	Remote technologies are producing leapfrog advances in identifying the routes and connectivity of migratory species, which are still unknown for hundreds of taxa, especially Asian ones. Here, we used GPS-telemetry to uncover the migration routes and breeding areas of the massive population of migratory Black-eared kites wintering around the megacity of Delhi-India, which hosts the largest raptor concentration of the world. Kites migrated for 3300-4800 km along a narrow corridor, crossing the Himalayas at extremely high elevations (up to>6500 m a.s.l.) by the K2 of the Karakoram Range and travelled long periods at elevations above 3500 m. They then crossed/circumvented the Taklamakan Desert and Tian Shan Range to reach their unknown breeding quarters at the intersection between Kazakhstan, Russia, China and Mongolia. Route configuration seemed to be shaped by dominant wind support and barrier avoidance. Wintering ranges were smaller than breeding ranges and concentrated around Delhi, likely in response to massive human food-subsidies. Our results illustrate that high-elevation crossings by soaring migrants may be more common than previously appreciated and suggest the delineation of a hitherto poorly-appreciated Central Asian Flyway, which must funnel hundreds of thousands of migrants from central Asia into the Indian subcontinent via multiple modes of the Himalayan crossing.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000577130700002
WOS关键词	POPULATION ; NEPAL ; BIRDS ; CONNECTIVITY ; RECRUITMENT ; SURVIVAL ; AREAS ; SITE
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
来源机构	University of Oxford
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/326743
作者单位	[Kumar, Nishant; Gosler, Andrew G.] Univ Oxford, Edward Grey Inst Field Ornithol, Zool Res & Adm Bldg,11a Mansfield Rd, Oxford OX1 3SZ, England; [Kumar, Nishant; Gosler, Andrew G.] Univ Oxford, Mansfield Coll, Mansfield Rd, Oxford OX1 3TF, England; [Kumar, Nishant; Gupta, Urvi; Jhala, Yadvendradev V.; Qureshi, Qamar] Wildlife Inst India, Post Box 18, Dehra Dun 248001, Uttarakhand, India; [Gosler, Andrew G.] Inst Human Sci, Sch Anthropol & Museum Ethnog, 58a Banbury Rd, Oxford OX2 6QS, England; [Sergio, Fabrizio] CSIC, Estn Biol Donana, Dept Conservat Biol, C Amer Vespucio 26, Seville 41092, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kumar, Nishant,Gupta, Urvi,Jhala, Yadvendradev V.,et al. GPS-telemetry unveils the regular high-elevation crossing of the Himalayas by a migratory raptor: implications for definition of a Central Asian Flyway[J]. University of Oxford,2020,10(1).
APA	Kumar, Nishant,Gupta, Urvi,Jhala, Yadvendradev V.,Qureshi, Qamar,Gosler, Andrew G.,&Sergio, Fabrizio.(2020).GPS-telemetry unveils the regular high-elevation crossing of the Himalayas by a migratory raptor: implications for definition of a Central Asian Flyway.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,10(1).
MLA	Kumar, Nishant,et al."GPS-telemetry unveils the regular high-elevation crossing of the Himalayas by a migratory raptor: implications for definition of a Central Asian Flyway".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 10.1(2020).