Spatial behavior and habitat use in widely separated breeding and wintering distributions across three species of long‐distance migrant<i> Phylloscopus</i> warblers

Abstract

Individuals of all three species showed changes between breeding and wintering areas in spatial behavior and habitat availability, with larger overlap in winter. The differences in patterns were potentially related to being generalist (willow warbler) or specialist (chiffchaff and wood warbler). These ecological relationships are important for the conservation of migrants and for understanding the link between breeding and wintering distributions and ecology.