Subject: migrants
Date: Mar 31 09:31:15 1995
From: Jobless in Seattle - cccc at u.washington.edu


Dennis Paulson writes:
> Andy, I think you're absolutely right about migrants in general, but birds
> also probably vary idiosyncratically on when they arrive, perhaps those
> with longer migration flights more so. And then I suppose there's a factor
> of when they begin their migration based on where they are wintering.

A couple of questions occur, namely
1. It would seem that birds in the northern part of the breeding range
winter in the northern part of the wintering range, and a similar
case for southern birds.
Is this documented ?

2. Do northern and southern birds both begin migrating at the same time ?

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