African Drought Kept Songbirds From Breeding Grounds (3 of 5) (IMAGE)

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African Drought Kept Songbirds From Breeding Grounds (3 of 5)

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This shows a male red-backed shrike carrying a data logger with valuable information on its migration route. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 7, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Anders Tøttrup at University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues was titled, “Drought in Africa Caused Delayed Arrival of European Songbirds.”

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[Photograph courtesy of Per Ekberg]

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