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MIGRATE 2008 MIGRATE 2008 Physiological Condition and Physiological Condition and Body Composition of Body Composition of Migratory Birds Migratory Birds USGS - Oregon Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit Oregon State University Dan Roby Dan Roby Hatfield Marine Hatfield Marine Science Center Science Center Newport, Oregon Newport, Oregon

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MIGRATE 2008MIGRATE 2008Physiological Condition andPhysiological Condition andBody Composition ofBody Composition of Migratory BirdsMigratory Birds

USGS - Oregon Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit

Oregon State University

Dan RobyDan Roby

Hatfield MarineHatfield MarineScience CenterScience Center

Newport, OregonNewport, Oregon

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Survival during Migration requires Storage

• Requirements for certain nutrients areelevated during migration- migration incurs large costs in:

- protein- water - macro-minerals- micro-nutrients- ENERGY

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Certain nutrients may not be readily available during migration

• Highly migratory species breeding inhighly seasonal environments- arctic-nesting shorebirds and waterfowl

• Terrestrial species migrating overseas- Ruby-throated Hummingbird crossing Gulf of Mexico- Bar-tailed Godwit crossing western Pacific

• Energy may be severely limited during migration- energy storage takes precedence over other nutrients

• Water may be limiting for overseas migrants

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Blackpoll WarblerBlackpoll Warbler

Normal wt. = 11 gNormal wt. = 11 gPrePre--migratory wt. = 21 gmigratory wt. = 21 g ~80~80--hr flighthr flight

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How do migratory birds meet their water requirements during long distance

trans-oceanic flights?

• Oxidative ("metabolic") water- produced as byproduct of oxidation of organic

compounds containing hydrogen• Grams of water formed per gram of food oxidized

- glucose: 0.60- starch: 0.56- protein: 0.39

- fat: 1.07 !

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Bar-tailed Godwit55% of live wt. in fat

New Zealand to Yellow Seanonstop!

Over 11,000 km in 9 daysOver 11,000 km in 9 days

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Energy Storage:Choice of energy storage molecule

• Lipids (fats)- Higher energy density (calories/gram)

- more than twice that of carbohydrates or protein

- Fats can be stored without water- tissue density ~ 0.9

- Fats can not be metabolized anaerobically- Fats not readily transported in body fluids

- need lipoproteins and phospholipids

TriacylglycerolTriacylglycerolmoleculemolecule

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• Carbohydrates (sugars and starches)- Can be metabolized

anaerobically- Polysaccharides (starch)

are carbohydrate energystorage compounds

- Glycogen is a polysaccharidestored in liver- 4-5 g water stored with

each gram glycogen- Glycogen is heavy way to store energy

glycogenglycogen

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How much Fat should I store?

• Scaling of metabolic rates has a profoundeffect on energy expenditure rate

Body sizeBody sizedetermines:determines:

-- resistance resistance to starvationto starvation

-- flight rangeflight range

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• 10% of body mass in fat will last:

- 2 days for a 30-g mouse

- 20 days for a 100-kg human

- 80 days for a 1,000-kg elephant

- 160 days for a 10,000-kg (large) whale

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Scaling of Migratory Range

• a goose with 20%of body mass as fatcan migrate 6,000 km

• a hummingbird with20% of body mass asfat can migrate only800 km

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Deficits in availability relative to requirement during migration produce strong selective

pressures to store adequate nutrients

• But storage has costs:- procurement - synthesis - transport - mechanical - maintenance- remobilization

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Adaptive strategy: leave fattening to thelast minute to minimize fitness costs

• 10 days of pre-migratoryfattening in white-throated sparrowsproduces 25% of bodymass in fat

• Join feeding frenzy flocksjust before migration

• Reduce costs of carryingextra load

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How can you assess food availability and quality at a migration stopover?

• Fat reserves change rapidlybefore migration

• Large fat reserves may notindicate plentiful food,but anticipated demandor shortage

• Rate of fat deposition (g/day)between captures used as index to food quantity and quality

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Temporal changes in body composition used as an index to food availability at migratory stopovers

also an indexto stressdue tofactors suchas disturbance,environmentalcontaminants,or habitatdegradationat stopovers

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Sooty ShearwaterShaffer et al. 2006

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Photo courtesy John Croxall

Production of stomach oil from dietary lipidsProduction of stomach oil from dietary lipidsgives gives procellariiform procellariiform seabirds a bag lunchseabirds a bag lunch

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Lipid digestion/assimilation in birdsis more efficient than in mammals

• avian lipase is bile dependent• no co-lipase required, as in mammals• completely hydrolyzes fats and wax esters

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Avian Body Composition

• Major components: water, protein, fat, ash (minerals)- carbohydrates always a minor (< 1%) constituent

• Percent fat and percent water inversely related- as body fat is metabolized, body water increases

• Why is body composition of interest?- fat as a % of total body mass is a widely

used condition index

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Measuring Body Composition in Migratory Birds

• Carcass Analysis - destructive - Bomb Calorimetry (adiabatic)

- bomb submerged in water to absorb heat of combustion when tissue sample reduced to ash

- Proximate Composition Analysis- determine water, lipid, protein, carbohydrate,

and ash fractions of homogenized carcass- use appropriate caloric conversion terms to

estimate total caloric value(fat - 39.3 kJ/g; protein - 17.8 kJ/g; carbohydrates - 17.6 kJ/g)

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• Morphological indicators

• Isotope dilution method

• Gas dilution methods

• Total body electricalconductivity (TOBEC)

• Bioelectrical impedanceanalysis (BIA)

• Ultrasound scanning

• Dual-energy X-rayabsorptiometry

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Total Body Electrical Conductivity (TOBEC)

- body alters electromagneticfield within a coil,changing coil’simpedance

-- accuracy depends onaccuracy depends onconsistent body postureconsistent body posture

-- precisionprecision depends on sizedepends on size &&variability of fat reservesvariability of fat reserves

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Isotope Dilution Method• Deuterium dilution space

- fat content basedon water estimate

- water content variesinversely with fat content

- inject precise amountof deuterated H2O

- take blood sample afterequilibration (half-hr)

- requires mass spectrometer for measuring D2O

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Other Non-destructive Methods• Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA)

- passing a weak current through body- varies with posture- problematic with unrestrained wild birds

• Gas dilution method (cyclopropane technique)- absorption and elimination of lipid-soluble gases- not appropriate for endothermic vertebrates

• Ultrasonic scanning of fat depots- measures fat pad thickness

• Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry- requires trained lab tech, expensive

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Other Indices to Body Condition• Body Weights and Linear Measurements

- use measurements to adjust body weight for variation in body size

- size adjusted body weight usually correlated with condition

- problem: don’t know composition of weight - problem: don’t know weight of gut contents- problem: don’t know which measurements to use

- wing chord; culmen length; tarsus length;head plus bill length

• Should validate method using carcass analysis

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Caspian Tern Chick Condition Caspian Tern Chick Condition East Sand Island colonyEast Sand Island colony

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Fat ScoringESF protocolclasses 0-8

- Semi-transparentskin required

- Mostly limited topasserines

- Experience required

- Subjective- Should be

validated withcarcass analysis

furcular furcular fatfat

abdominal fat abdominal fat

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SubjectivitySubjectivity

ESF fat scoreESF fat score ±± 5.55.5

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Muscle ScoringESF protocol - classes 0-3

• size ofbreastmuscles

• subjective

• should bevalidated usingcarcassanalysis

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Other Indices of Physiological Condition

• Corticosterone (stress hormone levels in blood)- Baseline cort levels

- blood must be collected within 3 min- Cort levels during stress response

- sample blood periodically during stress

• cP450 (cytochrome P-450)- mixed function oxidase induced during stress- frequently used to detect exposure to

contaminants (e.g., crude oil)- requires liver biopsy

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Quantitative Fatty Acid Signature Analysis Quantitative Fatty Acid Signature Analysis (QFASA) Models(QFASA) Models

(Iverson et al. 2004)(Iverson et al. 2004)

non-destructive eliminates bias of stomach contents analysisintegrates diet composition over timesuperior to traditional diet analysis methods

Describe predator diets using library of Describe predator diets using library of Fatty Acid Signatures from potential preyFatty Acid Signatures from potential prey

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Calibration CoefficientsCalibration Coefficientsfor Fatty Acid Signaturesfor Fatty Acid Signatures

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Fatty Acid Signature AnalysisFatty Acid Signature AnalysisCaveats:Caveats:

11 of 12 fatty acid calibration coefficients variedwith diet, age, or species of seabird

variable fatty acid calibration coefficients maypreclude accurate determination of seabirddiet composition from fatty acid signatures

QFASA models need to incorporate uncertaintyin calibration coefficients

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Questions?Questions?