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Science 24 December 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5705, pp. 2201 - 2202
DOI: 10.1126/science.1107749
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
A Head Start for Some Redstarts

Geoffrey E. Hill

Most ornithologists working in Europe, Canada, and North America arduously study breeding patterns of migratory birds, while ignoring molting, migration, and the time migratory birds spend in their southern wintering grounds. In his Perspective, Hill comments that the introduction of new techniques that measure, for example, isotope ratios in bird feathers is enabling ornithologists to analyze these long-ignored aspects of the annual life cycle of migratory birds (Norris et al.).

The author is in the Department of Biological Science, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA. E-mail: ghill{at}acesag.auburn.edu

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