Towards a conceptual framework for explaining variation in nocturnal departure time of songbird migrants

Migratory restlessness increases and refuelling rate decreases over the spring migration season in northern wheatears

(2016) Cas Eikenaar et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Fuel accumulation advances nocturnal departure: a migratory restlessness study on northern wheatears at stopover

(2016) Cas Eikenaar et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Alternate non-stop migration strategies of pied flycatchers to cross the Sahara desert

(2016) Janne Ouwehand et al.   Biology Letters

A New View on an Old Debate: Type of Cue-Conflict Manipulation and Availability of Stars Can Explain the Discrepancies between Cue-Calibration Experiments with Migratory Songbirds

(2016) Sissel Sjöberg et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Differential fall migratory routes of adult and juvenile Ipswich Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis princeps)

(2016) Zoe J. Crysler et al.   Movement Ecology

Barrier crossing in small avian migrants: individual tracking reveals prolonged nocturnal flights into the day as a common migratory strategy

(2016) Peter Adamík et al.   Scientific Reports

Weather and fuel reserves determine departure and flight decisions in passerines migrating across the Baltic Sea

(2015) Sissel Sjöberg et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The effects of wind and fuel stores on stopover departure behavior across a migratory barrier

(2015) Bryant C. Dossman et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Proximate causes of avian protandry differ between subspecies with contrasting migration challenges

(2015) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Start of nocturnal migratory restlessness in captive birds predicts nocturnal departure time in free-flying birds

(2015) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Adult and hatch-year blackpoll warblers exhibit radically different regional-scale movements during post-fledging dispersal

(2015) J. Morgan Brown et al.   Biology Letters

Transoceanic migration by a 12 g songbird

(2015) W. V. DeLuca et al.   Biology Letters

Is the denser contour feather structure in pale grey than in pheomelanic brown tawny owls Strix aluco an adaptation to cold environments?

(2015) Katja Koskenpato et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Causes and characteristics of reverse bird migration: an analysis based on radar, radio tracking and ringing at Falsterbo, Sweden

(2015) Cecilia Nilsson et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Fat, weather, and date affect migratory songbirds’ departure decisions, routes, and time it takes to cross the Gulf of Mexico

(2015) Jill L. Deppe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Automated telemetry reveals age specific differences in flight duration and speed are driven by wind conditions in a migratory songbird

(2015) Greg W Mitchell et al.   Movement Ecology

What to do when stopping over: behavioral decisions of a migrating songbird during stopover are dictated by initial change in their body condition and mediated by key environmental conditions

(2014) A. D. Smith et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Migratory restlessness in captive individuals predicts actual departure in the wild

(2014) C. Eikenaar et al.   Biology Letters

Wind conditions experienced during the day predict nocturnal restlessness in a migratory songbird

(2014) Cas Eikenaar et al.   IBIS

BirdOriTrack: a new video-tracking program for orientation research with migratory birds

(2014) Rachel Muheim et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Individual improvements and selective mortality shape lifelong migratory performance

(2014) Fabrizio Sergio et al.   NATURE

Cues, strategies, and outcomes: how migrating vertebrates track environmental change

(2014) David W Winkler et al.   Movement Ecology

Differences in Speed and Duration of Bird Migration between Spring and Autumn

(2013) Cecilia Nilsson et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Twilight ascents by common swifts, Apus apus, at dawn and dusk: acquisition of orientation cues?

(2013) Adriaan M. Dokter et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

White-throated sparrows adjust behaviour in response to manipulations of barometric pressure and temperature

(2013) Jessica Metcalfe et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Factors influencing the movement biology of migrant songbirds confronted with an ecological barrier

(2013) Jaclyn A. Smolinsky et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Size and accumulation of fuel reserves at stopover predict nocturnal restlessness in a migratory bird

(2013) C. Eikenaar et al.   Biology Letters

Stopover optimization in a long-distance migrant: the role of fuel load and nocturnal take-off time in Alaskan northern wheatears (Oenanthe oenanthe)

(2013) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Phenotypic response to environmental cues, orientation and migration costs in songbirds flying halfway around the world

(2012) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Tracking migration routes and the annual cycle of a trans-Sahara songbird migrant

(2012) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Cross-hemisphere migration of a 25 g songbird

(2012) F. Bairlein et al.   Biology Letters

Wing moult and mass change in free-living mallardAnas platyrhynchos

(2012) Anthony D. Fox et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Experimental Evidence for the Interplay of Exogenous and Endogenous Factors on the Movement Ecology of a Migrating Songbird

(2012) Emily B. Cohen et al.   PLoS One

Adaptive Sleep Loss in Polygynous Pectoral Sandpipers

(2012) J. A. Lesku et al.   SCIENCE

Orientation of passerine trans-Sahara migrants: the directional shift (‘Zugknick’) reconsidered for free-flying birds

(2011) Felix Liechti et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Influence of fuel load and weather on timing of nocturnal spring migratory departures in European robins, Erithacus rubecula

(2011) Victor N. Bulyuk   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Technology on the Move: Recent and Forthcoming Innovations for Tracking Migratory Birds

(2011) Eli S. Bridge et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Passerines Use Nocturnal Flights for Landscape-Scale Movements during Migration Stopover

(2011) Alexander M. Mills et al.   CONDOR

Numbers, foraging and refuelling of passerine migrants at a stopover site in the western Sahara: diverse strategies to cross a desert

(2011) Susanne Jenni-Eiermann et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Optimal bird migration revisited

(2011) Thomas Alerstam   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Body condition and wind support initiate the shift of migratory direction and timing of nocturnal departure in a songbird

(2011) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Landscape Movements of Migratory Birds and Bats Reveal an Expanded Scale of Stopover

(2011) Philip D. Taylor et al.   PLoS One

Temperature alters the photoperiodically controlled phenologies linked with migration and reproduction in a night-migratory songbird

(2011) J. Singh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Flight at Low Ambient Humidity Increases Protein Catabolism in Migratory Birds

(2011) A. R. Gerson et al.   SCIENCE

Autumn migratory fuelling: a response to simulated magnetic displacements in juvenile wheatears, Oenanthe oenanthe

(2010) Jannika E. Boström et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Body fat influences departure from stopover sites in migratory birds: evidence from whole-island telemetry

(2010) W. Goymann et al.   Biology Letters

Nocturnal exploratory flights, departure time, and direction in a migratory songbird

(2010) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Endogenous Rhythms of Seasonal Migratory Body Mass Changes and Nocturnal Restlessness in Different Populations of Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe

(2010) Ivan Maggini et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

Sex-related variation in migration phenology in relation to sexual dimorphism: a test of competing hypotheses for the evolution of protandry

(2010) N. SAINO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Bird migration flight altitudes studied by a network of operational weather radars

(2010) A. M. Dokter et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Avian Navigation

(2009) Roswitha Wiltschko et al.   AUK

Proximate control and adaptive potential of protandrous migration in birds

(2009) T. Coppack et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Flight by night or day? Optimal daily timing of bird migration

(2009) Thomas Alerstam   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The natural link between Europe and Africa - 2.1 billion birds on migration

(2009) Steffen Hahn et al.   OIKOS

Non-breeding season events influence sexual selection in a long-distance migratory bird

(2009) M. W Reudink et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems

(2009) Alain F. Zuur et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Sustained bird flights occur at temperatures far beyond expected limits

(2008) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Circadian flight schedules in night-migrating birds caught on migration

(2008) T. Coppack et al.   Biology Letters

Variation in the nocturnal flight behaviour of migratory birds along the northwest coast of the Mediterranean Sea

(2008) DANIEL FORTIN et al.   IBIS

Optimal moult strategies in migratory birds

(2007) Z. Barta et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Adaptations to migration in birds: behavioural strategies, morphology and scaling effects

(2007) A. Hedenstrom   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Organization of vertebrate annual cycles: implications for control mechanisms

(2007) J. C Wingfield   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES