By analyzing total stopover duration, we identified key areas of stopover use.
The figure also includes random trajectory simulations, highlighting the range of possible migration routes. 📍✨ 🎯

While crossing the Congo Basin forest, Woodland Kingfishers fly higher and longer, with extended stopovers before or after - a behavior resembling barrier crossing! 🌳✈️

Our study reveals that our Woodland Kingfishers migrated to a non-breeding site with a habitat similar to the breeding site, matching conditions like rainfall, vegetation greenness and temperature. 🌧️🌱🌡️

Pressure-based geolocation pinpointed Woodland Kingfishers’ non-breeding site to ~50 km in South Sudan. Remarkably, all 4 birds (including one tracked across 2 years) stayed in the same region! 📈📍

📢 New paper alert! Dive into the fascinating migration of the Woodland Kingfisher within Africa! 🌍✨

📄https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2633

Big congratulations to Yann Rime and Dayo on this outstanding work! 👏!