TY - JOUR T1 - More Than Just Refuelling: Lengthy Stopover and Selection of Departure Weather by Sandpipers Prior to Transoceanic and Transcontinental Flights A1 - Roques,Sébastien A1 - Lank,David B A1 - Cam,Emmanuelle A1 - Pradel,Roger AD - CEFE Univ Montpellier CNRS EPHE, IRD Univ Paul‐Valéry Montpellier 3 Montpellier, France AD - Laboratoire Évolution et Diversité Biologique UMR 5174 Université Paul Sabatier CNRS IRD Toulouse, France AD - Centre for Wildlife Ecology Department of Biological Sciences Simon Fraser University Burnaby British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada AD - Univ Brest CNRS IRD, Ifremer, LEMAR F‐29280 Plouzané ,France UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12891 DO - 10.1111/ibi.12891 KW - barrier effect migration KW - Bayesian analysis KW - capture– KW - recapture KW - stopover decisions N2 - The evolutionary and behavioural ecology of migratory birds has received much theoretical and empirical attention. We contribute to this field by contrasting the weather at departure and stopover durations of a long‐distance migratory sandpiper prior to initiating lengthy transoceanic versus transcontinental flights of potentially variable duration. Transoceanic flights provide few if any stopover options. We predicted that transoceanic migrants should therefore be more selective of energetically favourable weather at departure and have longer stopover durations prior to departing, using time as a surrogate for cumulative fuel acquisition, than transcontinental migrants. Y1 - 2021/04 PB - Wiley JF - Ibis SN - 0019-1019 VL - 163 IS - 2 SP - 519 EP - 535 ID - 76540 ER -