Free as a bird – or on a tight schedule? A study of migration strategies in five Tringa wader species
Migration does have a time, energy or mortality cost, and the strategy to minimise the costs shapes the migration behaviour. Depending on the relative influence of these costs in shaping the migration, an animal is expected to undertake these journeys in different ways, depending on their morphology and migration ecology. I investigated if five Tringa-type waders minimise their migration time, and
