2024
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0021
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Unconventional life history in a migratory shorebird: desegregating reproduction and migration

Colby R. Slezak,
Erik J. Blomberg,
Amber M. Roth
et al.

Abstract: Conventional life-history theory predicts that energy-demanding events such as reproduction and migration must be temporally segregated to avoid resource limitation. Here, we provide, to our knowledge, the first direct evidence of ‘itinerant breeding’ in a migratory bird, an incredibly rare breeding strategy (less than 0.1% of extant bird species) that involves the temporal overlap of migratory and reproductive periods of the annual cycle. Based on GPS-tracking of over 200 female American woodcock, most female… Show more

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