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Bridget Stuchbury on Tracking Long-Distance Songbird Migration
Bridget Stuchbury discusses her 2009 SCIENCE
paper, "Tracking Long-Distance Songbird Migration by Using Geolocators,"
from the field of Plant & Animal Science in this Fast Moving Fronts
commentary. The author has also included images of her work in this
field. From the interview: "Billions of individual songbirds leave their
breeding grounds in North America and Europe and fly thousands of
kilometers to spend the winter in tropical countries, creating one of
the most spectacular animal migrations in the world..."
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Douglas J. Parker on Upper-Air Measurements Over West
Africa
Douglas J. Parker discusses his 2008 BULL AMER METEOROL SOC paper,
"THE AMMA RADIOSONDE PROGRAM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF
ATMOSPHERIC MONITORING OVER AFRICA ," from the field of Geosciences in this
New Hot Papers commentary. From the interview: "This paper describes a
programme of upper-air measurements over West Africa which was conducted as
part of the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA; Redelsperger
et al. 2006) in the years 2005 onwards..."
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Featured Image
Wood Thrush equipped with geolocator feeding young at its nest. Image taken by Elizabeth Gow.