FLYWAYS with Jan Van Gils, Red Knot Scientist, Netherlands. from african gils Watch Video
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Description: Red knots migrate between their summer breeding grounds in the high Arctic and their wintering grounds in the West African tropics. Jan Van Gils and an international team of scientists discovered that chicks currently born under rapidly warming conditions in the Arctic attain smaller sizes before migration starts because they miss the insect peak. If they make it all to their wintering grounds on the African intertidal flats, they are there faced with a second disadvantage: their shorter bills h
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