Table 1.

Details on the autumn and spring migration of nine Swainson's thrushes, including departure and arrival dates, total duration, distance travelled, days spent at stopover sites, migration pace and flight speed. (Colours correspond to those used in figure 1 (inland subspecies group: red, orange, yellow, green; coastal subspecies group: blue, purple, pink, turquoise, maroon). Averages for each subspecies are shown in bold. Significant results from paired t-tests comparing values for these groups are also bold.)

		autumn migration							spring migration
		departure	arrival	duration (days)	stopover (days)	distance (km)	pace (km per day)	speed (km per day)	departure	arrival	duration (days)	stopover (days)	distance (km)	pace(km per day)	speed (km per day)
coastal
	maroon	12 July	17 Oct	94	83	3470	37	315	16 Apr	01 July	46	31	4253	92	284
	turquoise	25 July	18 Oct	85	54	4366	51	141	06 Apr	28 May	52	39	4441	85	342
	blue	28 July	14 Oct	78	71	3759	48	537	18 Apr	23 May	36	21	4564	127	304
	pinka	24 July	20 Oct	88	72	4466	51	279	01 Apr
	purple	26 July	02 Oct	68	35	4067	60	123	11 Apr	17 May	36	28	4041	112	505
	average	23 July	14 Oct	83	63	4026	49	279	10 Apr	25 May	44	33	4325	104	359
inland
	red	31 July	27 Nov	119	98	5468	46	260	26 Mar	09 June	75	57	5552	74	308
	green	20 July	03 Nov	96	85	6081	63	553	04 Apr	06 June	63	38	6333	101	253
	orange	31 July	17 Oct	78	66	5519	71	460	07 Apr	22 May	45	31	6083	135	435
	yellow	28 Aug	08 Oct	41	32	5122	125	569	10 Apr	21 May	41	32	5532	135	615
	average	06 Aug	29 Oct	84	70	5547	76	461	04 Apr	30 May	57	44	5875	111	403
p-value		0.073	0.18	0.95	0.66	0.0008	0.13	0.13	0.20	0.43	0.18	0.21	0.0001	0.71	0.66

^aBattery stopped working 16 May 2011.