One of the French birds made two stopovers in Niger, and in Algeria, whilst another one stayed in northern Angola, or in the western Central African Republic for 61 days (Emmenegger et al., 2013). The spring migration takes only about two months, being shorter than the autumn one (Catry et al., 2014). Table 2. Migration route and wintering places of the South-Western breeding population of the European Roller Autumn Stopover site Wintering Spring Stopover site Country migration (autumn) area migration (spring) Algeria X X X X Angola X X X Benin ? Botswana X Burkina Faso X X Cameroon X X X X Central African Republic X X Chad X X X X Congo, Republic of the X X X Cote d'Ivoire X X X Equatorial Guinea ? X X The Gambia ? X X X X Guinea X X X X Guinea-Bissau ? Liberia X X X Libya X X Mali X X Mauritania X X Morocco X X Namibia X Niger X X X X Nigeria X X Senegal X X Sierra X X X X Togo ? Tunisia X X Western-Sahara ? Zambia X Figure 1. Countries affected (dark green) or potentially affected (light green) (see Table 2) by the migration of the population of the European Roller
One of the French birds made two stopovers in Niger, and in Algeria, whilst another one stayed in northern Angola, or in the western Central African Republic for 61 days (Emmenegger et al., 2013). The spring migration takes only about two months, being shorter than the autumn one (Catry et al., 2014). Table 2. Migration route and wintering places of the South-Western breeding population of the European Roller Country Autumn migration Stopover site (autumn) Wintering area Spring migration Stopover site (spring) Algeria X X X X Angola X X X Benin ? Botswana X Burkina Faso X X Cameroon X X X X Central African Republic X X Chad X X X X Congo, Republic of the X X X Cote d'Ivoire X X X Equatorial Guinea ? X X The Gambia ? X X X X Guinea X X X X Guinea-Bissau ? Liberia X X X Libya X X Mali X X Mauritania X X Morocco X X Namibia X Niger X X X X Nigeria X X Senegal X X Sierra X X X X Togo ? Tunisia X X Western-Sahara ? Zambia X Figure 1. Countries affected (dark green) or potentially affected (light green) (see Table 2) by the migration of the population of the European Roller
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