Quillfeldt, Petra http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4450-8688
Morkūnas, Julius
Kruckenberg, Helmut http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3840-1240
Kondratyev, Alexander http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4657-3336
Loshchagina, Julia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8662-0723
Aarvak, Tomas http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4592-9123
Øien, Ingar Jostein http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0986-2726
Bellebaum, Jochen
Glazov, Petr http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3462-7031
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bundesamt für Naturschutz (FKZ 3516821500)
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Article History
Received: 16 April 2021
Revised: 27 October 2021
Accepted: 9 November 2021
First Online: 20 November 2021
Declarations
:
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: All animal work was conducted according to relevant national and international guidelines and pursuant to applicable legislation of Russian Federation. Transmitter implantation was carried out under the permission of the Ethics Committee for Animal Research of St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU) No. 13-03-4 of 20 May 2019. Transmitters were only implanted in individuals determined to be in good health and for which the transmitter weight did not exceed 5.4% of body weight, as per accepted best practices. All implanted birds completely recovered after implantation and behaved normally. All stages of captures (capture, handling, surgery, recovery, and release) were supervised by a qualified veterinarian.
: Not applicable.