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Crossbreeding experiments with blackcaps from a nonmigratory population (of the Cape Verde Islands) and a migratory population (from southern Germany) demonstrated that the urge to migrate as well as orientation behavior can be transmitted rapidly into a nonmigratory bird population and thus have a substantial genetic basis.
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Berthold, P., Wiltschko, W., Miltenberger, H. et al. Genetic transmission of migratory behavior into a nonmigratory bird population. Experientia 46, 107–108 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01955432
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