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Connectivity between countries established by landbirds and raptors migrating along the African–Eurasian flyway
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NSTL
Wiley
Abstract The conservation of long‐distance migratory birds requires coordination between the multiple countries connected by the movements of these species. The recent expansion of tracking studies is shedding new light on these movements, but much of this information is fragmented and inaccessible to conservation practitioners and policy makers. We synthesized current knowledge on the connectivity established between countries by landbirds and raptors migrating along the African–Eurasian flyway. We reviewed tracking studies to compile migration records for 1229 individual birds, from which we derived 544 migratory links, each link corresponding to a species’ connection between a breeding country in Europe and a nonbreeding country in sub‐Saharan Africa. We used these migratory links to analyze trends in knowledge over time and spatial patterns of connectivity per country (across species), per species (across countries), and at the flyway scale (across all countries and all species). The number of tracking studies available increased steadily since 2010 (particularly for landbirds), but the coverage of existing tracking data was highly incomplete. An average of 7.5% of migratory landbird species and 14.6% of raptor species were tracked per country. More data existed from central and western European countries, and it was biased toward larger bodied species. We provide species‐ and country‐level syntheses of the migratory links we identified from the reviewed studies, involving 123 populations of 43 species, migrating between 28 European and 43 African countries. Several countries (e.g., Spain, Poland, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo) are strategic priorities for future tracking studies to complement existing data, particularly on landbirds. Despite the limitations in existing tracking data, our data and results can inform discussions under 2 key policy instruments at the flyway scale: the African–Eurasian Migratory Landbirds Action Plan and the Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Birds of Prey in Africa and Eurasia.
bird migrationConvention on Migratory Speciesgeopolitical connectivitymigratory linksmigratory speciesscience–policy interfacetracking dataconectividad geopolíticaconexiones migratoriasConvención de Especies Migratoriasdatos de rastreoespecies migratoriasinterconexión ciencia‐políticamigración de aves鸟类迁徙《保护迁徙野生动物物种公约》地缘政治连接迁徙路径迁徙物种科学‐政策联系追踪数据
Jo?o L. Guilherme、Victoria R. Jones、Inês Catry、Martin Beal、Maria P. Dias、Steffen Oppel、Juliet A. Vickery、Chris M. Hewson、Stuart H. M. Butchart、Ana S. L. Rodrigues
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CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD
BirdLife International
Universidade do Porto
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, The Lodge
NSTL
Wiley
