Chapter 10: Migration & Navigation

Question 1

Adult survival rate: 80-90% vs 50% vs 20-50%

Annual reproductive success: low vs moderate vs high

Answer 1

tropical vs migrant vs temperature resident

Question 1

migrate according to local food availability

i.e.?

Answer 1

irruptive

i.e. snowy owl

Question 1

ink with funnel and stars

Answer 1

Emlin w/ indigo buntings

Question 2

exhausted birds grounded after long migratory route across water or desert

i.e.?

Answer 2

fallout

i.e. neotropic migrants (warblers)

Question 3

Helmholtz coil

Answer 3

used to apply artificial magnetic field to homing pigeon

Question 3

placed silk thread on eastern phoebe (returned to his house next year)

Answer 3

john james audubon

Question 5

obligate partial migration (i.e.?)

Answer 5

some members of a population are inclined to migrate while others are not (i.e. robin)

Question 6

migration due to limitations in number of organisms environment can hold/support (i.e. chickadee)

Answer 6

facultative partial migration (i.e.?)

Question 7

some members of a population are inclined to migrate while others are not (i.e. robin)

Answer 7

obligate partial migration (i.e.?)

Question 7

can find nests by smell

Answer 7

petrels and pigeons

Question 8

obligatory annual migration

Answer 8

favored when resources in breeding area differ greatly season-to-season

Question 8

used to apply artificial magnetic field to homing pigeon

Answer 8

Helmholtz coil

Question 9

john james audubon

Answer 9

placed silk thread on eastern phoebe (returned to his house next year)

Question 10

irruptive

i.e. snowy owl

Answer 10

migrate according to local food availability

i.e.?

Question 10

favored when resources in breeding area differ greatly season-to-season

Answer 10

obligatory annual migration

Question 11

fallout

i.e. neotropic migrants (warblers)

Answer 11

exhausted birds grounded after long migratory route across water or desert

i.e.?

Question 12

return to San Juan Capistrano mission in California every year the week of March 19th

Answer 12

cliff swallows

Question 14

tropical vs migrant vs temperature resident

Answer 14

Adult survival rate: 80-90% vs 50% vs 20-50%

Annual reproductive success: low vs moderate vs high

Question 16

petrels and pigeons

Answer 16

can find nests by smell

Question 18

facultative partial migration (i.e.?)

Answer 18

migration due to limitations in number of organisms environment can hold/support (i.e. chickadee)

Question 19

below 2000ft

below 6500ft

15,000ft

up to 27800ft

Answer 19

migration elevations:

songbirds?

90%?

some shorebirds?

bar-headed geese?

Question 21

cliff swallows

Answer 21

return to San Juan Capistrano mission in California every year the week of March 19th

Question 22

demoed solar compass with starlings and pigeons

Answer 22

Kramer and Matthews

Question 24

migration elevations:

songbirds?

90%?

some shorebirds?

bar-headed geese?

Answer 24

below 2000ft

below 6500ft

15,000ft

up to 27800ft

Question 25

migrates 25,000 miles each year

Answer 25

arctic tern

Question 26

arctic tern

Answer 26

migrates 25,000 miles each year

Question 27

Kramer and Matthews

Answer 27

demoed solar compass with starlings and pigeons

Question 28

Emlin w/ indigo buntings

Answer 28

ink with funnel and stars