Figure 1.
Study area and stork movement tracks. Overland and overwater movements of individual white storks during post-breeding (southbound) migration across the straits of Gibraltar. Red lines depict the itineraries considered for the comparison of overland vs oversea flight performance, and magenta lines show other portions of the same-day tracks. The dotted area depicts the European hinterland, and the yellow circles show the average population position across three sequential migratory milestones, namely: entry to the European hinterland pre-cross, departure from the European shore, and arrival at the African shore post-cross. Map generated with ArcGIS 10.5 software (ESRI, Redland, USA), country limits background generated from GDAM data (freely available for academic use in https://gadm.org/data.html), and composition assembled with Adobe Photoshop CS3 software.
