Migration comes with tradeoffs. Flamingoes that migrate don’t live as long as their resident cousins—their lifespan is 6.7 years shorter on average—but nonmigrating flamingoes see accelerated mortality and reproductive declines later in life. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Migration shapes senescence in a long-lived bird | doi.org/10.1073/pnas... | PNAS | #ornithology 🪶

Flamingos Reveal a Secret About Ageing. While most living beings do grow old, migrating flamingos do so more slowly than residents. Thanks to long-term monitoring program led by @tourduvalat.bsky.social we have uncovered this surprising phenomenon.Look at our publication www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🦩🦩🦩 First paper from my last postdoc at @tourduvalat.bsky.social, co-first authored with Hugo Cayuela, is now published in @pnas.org. Thanks to a wonderful dataset on the Greater Flamingo in southern France, we investigated the relationship between migratory behaviour and ageing. 🦩🦩🦩

The first two parts of the trilogy can be found here :
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Final paper of our stopover trilogy now online in @oikosjournal.bsky.social : « Interspecies synchrony in departure decisions from stopover sites: evidence using a multi-species capture–recapture model »

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A large proportion of the white storks in southern Europe no longer migrate. Our new paper examined the mechanims behind the loss in migratory behavious with several methods including tracking data besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology #whitestorks #animalmigration

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #ecology section #Euring2023 conference: The importance of sampling design for unbiased estimation of survival using joint live-recapture and live resight models