Migratory Birds Track Climate Across the Year (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Migratory Birds Track Climate Across the Year

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Yellow warblers are found throughout North America and fly to Central and South America for winter. Rachael Bay, assistant professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis, and colleagues have found that individual birds show preferences for drier or wetter environments throughout the year and that this preference can be predicted from their genetics.

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Jonathan Eisen

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