Movement Ecology

Table 2 Summary of Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) overwintering locations identified using GPS tags

From: Migration ecology of western gray catbirds

	Winter Location 1			Winter Location 2				Winter Location 3				Winter Location 4
Tag ID	Dates	State	Days	Dates	State	Days	KM	Dates	State	Days	KM	Dates	State	Days	KM
British Columbia
42000	Oct 12-Nov 1	NLE	20
42005	Oct 12-Mar 9	TX	158
48964	Oct 16-Mar 27	SLP	162	Mar 31-Apr 10	SLP	10	109
48961	Oct 14-Apr 2	TAM	169
48965	Oct 22-Oct 26	TAM	4	Dec 1-Feb 1	TAM	62	32	Mar 1-Mar 17	SLP	16	178	Mar 19-Apr 20	HID	32	67
48963	Oct 16	TAM
Bitterroot River Valley
251	Dec 7-Jan 7	TAM	30
262	Dec 7-Feb 7	TX	62
245	Jan 7	TAM
40958	Oct 18-Jan 5	TAM	79	Feb 4	TAM		19	Mar 1	HID		278
48126+	Nov 1-Nov 21	TAM	20	Dec 1-Feb 19	TAM	80	5	Mar 15-Apr 26	HID	42	275
48120	Oct 14-Nov 11	TAM	28	Dec 1-Feb 19	TAM	81	114	Mar 8-Apr 19	VER	41	234	Apr 26-May 3	VER	7	8
48121	Oct 29-Dec 21	VER	53	Dec 31	VER		6
48123	Oct 14-Mar 1	TAM	138	Mar 15-Apr 26	HID	42	353
48124	Oct 19-Mar 1	TAM	133	Mar 8-May 3	VER	56	313
48131	Oct 14-Jan 20	TAM	98	Feb 19-Mar 8	SLP	17	168	Mar 22-Apr 26	VER	35	79
48133	Oct 14-Feb 19	TAM	128	Mar 29-May 3	PUE	63	275
48134	Oct 14-Mar 29	VER	176	Apr 5-May 3	HID	28	119

+This bird moved around in Tamaulipas between Oct 19 and Nov 1
Details of overwintering sites obtained from GPS tags placed on Gray Catbirds in the South Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada, and the Bitterroot River Valley, Montana, USA. Abbreviations include minimum length of stay (Days), the distance between current and previous overwintering site (KM). States are abbreviated as Nuevo Leon (NLE), San Luis Potosi (SLP), Tamaulipas (TAM), Veracruz (VER), Hidalgo (HID), Puebla (PUE), and Texas (TX)

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