Meteorological and environmental variables affect flight behaviour and decision-making of an obligate soaring bird, the California Condor Gymnogyps californianus

In-flight turbulence benefits soaring birds

(2016) Julie M. Mallon et al.   AUK

A projection of changes in landfalling atmospheric river frequency and extreme precipitation over western North America from the Large Ensemble CESM simulations

(2016) Samson M. Hagos et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Decision-making by a soaring bird: time, energy and risk considerations at different spatio-temporal scales

(2016) Roi Harel et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Flap or soar? How a flight generalist responds to its aerial environment

(2016) Judy Shamoun-Baranes et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Moving beyond Curve Fitting: Using Complementary Data to Assess Alternative Explanations for Long Movements of Three Vulture Species

(2015) Orr Spiegel et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Activity-specific ecological niche models for planning reintroductions of California condors ( Gymnogyps californianus )

(2015) Jesse D’Elia et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Limitations and mechanisms influencing the migratory performance of soaring birds

(2015) Tricia A. Miller et al.   IBIS

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

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

Use of multiple modes of flight subsidy by a soaring terrestrial bird, the golden eagleAquila chrysaetos, when on migration

(2015) Todd E. Katzner et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

The gliding speed of migrating birds: slow and safe or fast and risky?

(2014) Nir Horvitz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Flight response of slope-soaring birds to seasonal variation in thermal generation

(2014) Adam E. Duerr et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Effect of wind, thermal convection, and variation in flight strategies on the daily rhythm and flight paths of migrating raptors at Georgia's Black Sea coast

(2014) Wouter M. G. Vansteelant et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Environmental drivers of variability in the movement ecology of turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) in North and South America

(2014) S. Dodge et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How Cheap Is Soaring Flight in Raptors? A Preliminary Investigation in Freely-Flying Vultures

(2014) Olivier Duriez et al.   PLoS One

Commuting fruit bats beneficially modulate their flight in relation to wind

(2014) N. Sapir et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Energy Landscapes Shape Animal Movement Ecology

(2013) Emily L. C. Shepard et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

From daily movements to population distributions: weather affects competitive ability in a guild of soaring birds

(2013) E. L. C. Shepard et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Cliffs Used as Communal Roosts by Andean Condors Protect the Birds from Weather and Predators

(2013) Sergio A. Lambertucci et al.   PLoS One

Mixed strategies of griffon vultures’ (Gyps fulvus) response to food deprivation lead to a hump-shaped movement pattern

(2013) Orr Spiegel et al.   Movement Ecology

The environmental-data automated track annotation (Env-DATA) system: linking animal tracks with environmental data

(2013) Somayeh Dodge et al.   Movement Ecology

Topography drives migratory flight altitude of golden eagles: implications for on-shore wind energy development

(2012) Todd E. Katzner et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The development and evaluation of the Earth Gravitational Model 2008 (EGM2008)

(2012) Nikolaos K. Pavlis et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Animal Orientation Strategies for Movement in Flows

(2011) Jason W. Chapman et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Estimating updraft velocity components over large spatial scales: contrasting migration strategies of golden eagles and turkey vultures

(2011) Gil Bohrer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate Change, Atmospheric Rivers, and Floods in California - A Multimodel Analysis of Storm Frequency and Magnitude Changes1

(2011) Michael Dettinger   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION

Migration by soaring or flapping: numerical atmospheric simulations reveal that turbulence kinetic energy dictates bee-eater flight mode

(2011) N. Sapir et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Status of the California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) and Efforts to Achieve Its Recovery

(2010) Jeffrey R. Walters et al.   AUK

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

(2009) KEITH L. BILDSTEIN et al.   IBIS

Movement ecology of migration in turkey vultures

(2008) J. T. Mandel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A movement ecology paradigm for unifying organismal movement research

(2008) R. Nathan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Scaling regression inputs by dividing by two standard deviations

(2007) Andrew Gelman   STATISTICS IN MEDICINE