The gateway to Africa: What determines sea crossing performance of a migratory soaring bird at the Strait of Gibraltar?

Flight Altitude of Migrating European Honey Buzzards Facing the Open Sea

(2019) Michele Panuccio et al.   ORNITHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Contrasting aspects of tailwinds and asymmetrical response to crosswinds in soaring migrants

(2018) Paolo Becciu et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Raptor migration in an oceanic flyway: wind and geography shape the migratory route of grey-faced buzzards in East Asia

(2018) Elham Nourani et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Migrating ospreys use thermal uplift over the open sea

(2018) Olivier Duriez et al.   Biology Letters

Match between soaring modes of black kites and the fine-scale distribution of updrafts

(2017) Carlos D. Santos et al.   Scientific Reports

Wind patterns affect migration flyways and flock size of a soaring bird over sea

(2016) Nicolantonio Agostini et al.   Avian Biology Research

Trends of autumn counts at Iberian migration bottlenecks as a tool for monitoring continental populations of soaring birds in Europe

(2016) Beatriz Martín et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Wind conditions facilitate the seasonal water-crossing behaviour of Oriental Honey-buzzardsPernis ptilorhynchusover the East China Sea

(2016) Elham Nourani et al.   IBIS

The challenges of the first migration: movement and behaviour of juvenile vs. adult white storks with insights regarding juvenile mortality

(2016) Shay Rotics et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Interspecific comparison of the flight performance between sparrowhawks and common buzzards migrating at the Falsterbo peninsula: A radar study

(2016) Gintaras Malmiga et al.   Current Zoology

Adult vultures outperform juveniles in challenging thermal soaring conditions

(2016) Roi Harel et al.   Scientific Reports

Morphology, flight performance, and water crossing tendencies of Afro-Palearctic raptors during migration

(2015) Nicolantonio Agostini et al.   Current Zoology

Local and regional weather patterns influencing post-breeding migration counts of soaring birds at the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain

(2015) Robert A. Miller et al.   IBIS

High juvenile mortality during migration in a declining population of a long-distance migratory raptor

(2015) Steffen Oppel et al.   IBIS

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

(2015) R. Kays et al.   SCIENCE

Morphology, flight performance, and water crossing tendencies of Afro-Palearctic raptors during migration

(2015) Nicolantonio Agostini et al.   Current Zoology

Why Do Kestrels Soar?

(2015) Jesús Hernández-Pliego et al.   PLoS One

Juvenile Osprey Navigation during Trans-Oceanic Migration

(2014) Travis W. Horton et al.   PLoS One

Circannual variation in movement patterns of the Black Kite (Milvus migrans migrans): a review

(2013) M. Panuccio et al.   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

When and where does mortality occur in migratory birds? Direct evidence from long-term satellite tracking of raptors

(2013) Raymond H. G. Klaassen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The trans-Himalayan flights of bar-headed geese (Anser indicus)

(2011) L. A. Hawkes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Weather conditions promote route flexibility during open ocean crossing in a long-distance migratory raptor

(2010) Ugo Mellone et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

A Simple and Improved DNA Test for Avian Sex Determination

(2009) Jae-Ik Han et al.   AUK

How hazardous is the Sahara Desert crossing for migratory birds? Indications from satellite tracking of raptors

(2009) R. Strandberg et al.   Biology Letters

Narrow sea crossings present major obstacles to migrating Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus

(2009) KEITH L. BILDSTEIN et al.   IBIS

Recording raptor behavior on the wing via accelerometry

(2009) Lewis G. Halsey et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

All across Africa: highly individual migration routes of Eleonora's falcon

(2008) M. Gschweng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Extreme endurance flights by landbirds crossing the Pacific Ocean: ecological corridor rather than barrier?

(2008) R. E Gill et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES