Light-Level Geolocation Reveals Unexpected Migration Route from Russia to the Philippines of a Blue-And-White-Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana

Wieland Heim; Aleksey Antonov; Ilka Beermann; Simeon Lisovski; Martha Maria Sander; Steffen Hahn

doi:10.2326/osj.21.121

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2 February 2022 Light-Level Geolocation Reveals Unexpected Migration Route from Russia to the Philippines of a Blue-And-White-Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana

Wieland Heim, Aleksey Antonov, Ilka Beermann, Simeon Lisovski, Martha Maria Sander, Steffen Hahn

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Ornithological Science, 21(1):121-126 (2022). https://doi.org/10.2326/osj.21.121

Abstract

East Asian songbirds are known to migrate along two major corridors: from mainland Eurasia via China to South-East Asia, and from Japan and easternmost Russia through chains of islands in the Pacific to Indonesia and the Philippines. We successfully tracked the hitherto unknown migration of a Blue-and-white Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana breeding in the Russian Far East. The bird spent five months on Mindoro Island in the Philippines during the non-breeding season and migrated through Taiwan, the Chinese east coast, and the Korean peninsula. Thus, we provide the first direct evidence for songbird migration from mainland Russia to the Philippines.

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Wieland Heim, Aleksey Antonov, Ilka Beermann, Simeon Lisovski, Martha Maria Sander, and Steffen Hahn "Light-Level Geolocation Reveals Unexpected Migration Route from Russia to the Philippines of a Blue-And-White-Flycatcher Cyanoptila cyanomelana," Ornithological Science 21(1), 121-126, (2 February 2022). https://doi.org/10.2326/osj.21.121

Received: 16 April 2021; Accepted: 7 July 2021; Published: 2 February 2022

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