2003/06/01 by Matthieu Le Corre, Marc Salamolard, Marie Claude Portier · 12 citations
Environmental Science · Social Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Avian ecology and behavior #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Genetic diversity and population structure #Indian ocean #Oceanography #Dispersion (optics) #Pacific ocean #Geography #Geology #Climatology #Environmental science #Physics
paper · doi:10.1071/mu02026
published in Emu - Austral Ornithology 103(2), 183-184 (Taylor & Francis)
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A Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) banded at Sugarloaf Rock (Western Australia) in January 1998 as a chick was recovered almost 6000 km away in September 2001 at Réunion Island as a non-breeding adult. This is the second case of transoceanic dispersion of Red-tailed Tropicbirds in the Indian Ocean. This recovery shows that this species can disperse over very large distances, following prevailing trade winds in the Indian Ocean, as found in the tropical Pacific Ocean.