Migrating Birds 'Surf the Green Wave,' Tracking Vegetation Across Continents (3 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Migrating Birds 'Surf the Green Wave,' Tracking Vegetation Across Continents (3 of 9)

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Fitting a satellite tag onto a common cuckoo. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 4 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Thorup at University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues was titled, "Resource tracking within and across continents in long-distance bird migrants."

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Mikkel Willemoes

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