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- Title
Occurrence and Condition of Migrating Swainson's Thrushes in the British Virgin Islands.
- Authors
Boal, Clint W.; Estabrook, Tracy S.
- Abstract
Swainson's Thrushes (Catharus ustulatus) migrate widely throughout North and Middle America. In the Caribbean, the species is known to occur only in the western-most Greater Antilles, and there only as a rare migrant. We captured and visually detected migrant Swainson's Thrushes beginning in 2000 at a banding station on Guana Island, British Virgin Islands. The majority of thrushes captured were adults (79%) and most bad no (71%) or little fat (12%) reserves at time of capture; 61% were classified as being in emaciated or poor condition. The poor physiological conditions may have resulted from longer over water flights rather than island hopping.
- Subjects
BRITISH Virgin Islands; CATHARUS; THRUSHES; ANIMAL migration; ANIMAL behavior
- Publication
Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 2007, Vol 119, Issue 4, p716
- ISSN
1559-4491
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1676/06-121.1