Autumn Migration of Common Cranes Grus grus Through the Italian Peninsula: New Vs. Historical Flyways and Their Meteorological Correlates (original) (raw)

Importance of the Adriatic Flyway for the Common Crane (Grus grus)

2013

The paper presents Common Crane (Grus grus) migration data and identifies key resting sites on the western Balkan peninsula and Eastern Adriatic. The Adriatic Flyway project undertook the first studies of Common Crane migration in the region between 2007 and 2010. Observations indicate two separate routes: (a) across the Slovenian karst and Istria to the Po basin in autumn, and (b) across the central Dinaric karst and the Adriatic via Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and in some cases Montenegro in both autumn and spring. Counts indicated that the overwhelming majority of cranes resting in Hungary in autumn – by our estimates 80 % – use the latter route to reach North Africa. Cranes on the Baltic-HungarianAdriatic route outnumber those crossing Slovenia to northern Italy by a factor of ten. The lack of safe roosts and resting sites in the western Balkans, particularly along the Adriatic coast and on islands in Croatia, thus poses a significant threat to Common

Satellite tracking of the migration of the red-crowned crane Grus japonensis

Ecological Research, 1998

Autumn migration routes of red-crowned cranes, Grus japonensis, from two continental east Asian sites were documented in detail by satellite tracking. Two routes were identified: a 2200 km western route from Russia’s Khingansky Nature Reserve to coastal Jiangsu Province, China; and a 900 km eastern route from Lake Khanka (Russia) to the Korean Peninsula and the Demilitarized Zone. The most important rest-sites were identified as Panjin Marsh (China), coastal mudflats south-east of Tangshan City (China), the Yellow River mouth (China), Tumen River mouth (North Korea/China/Russia), Kumya (North Korea) and Cholwon (Korean DMZ). Movements within the wintering range were also recorded, including complex commuting between sites by individual cranes and patterns of daily movements within sites. These data should prove useful for conservation of the flyway.

From northern Europe to Ethiopia: long-distance migration of Common Cranes (Grus grus)

2019

I. Ojaste*, A. Leito†, K. Sepp, Ü. Väli, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51014 Tartu, Estonia. * Corresponding author’s e-mail: ivar.ojaste@emu.ee P. Suorsa, Department of Biology, University of Turku, FI-20014, Finland A. Hedenström, Department of Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 35, A3, 223 62 Lund, Sweden M. Leivits, Department of Geography, University of Tartu, Ülikooli 18, 50090 Tartu, Estonia U. Sellis, Estonian Ornithological Society, Veski 4, 51005 Tartu, Estonia