Actogram analysis of free-flying migratory birds: new perspectives based on acceleration logging

Resource tracking within and across continents in long-distance bird migrants

(2017) Kasper Thorup et al.   Science Advances

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

(2016) Janne Ouwehand et al.   Biology Letters

Annual 10-Month Aerial Life Phase in the Common Swift Apus apus

(2016) Anders Hedenström et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

Cross-continental migratory connectivity and spatiotemporal migratory patterns in the great reed warbler

(2016) Jaroslav Koleček et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Activity and migratory flights of individual free-flying songbirds throughout the annual cycle: method and first case study

(2016) Johan Bäckman et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

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

Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight

(2016) Niels C Rattenborg et al.   Nature Communications

Costs of migratory decisions: A comparison across eight white stork populations

(2016) A. Flack et al.   Science Advances

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

(2016) Florian Müller 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

Abrupt switch to migratory night flight in a wild migratory songbird

(2016) Daniel Zúñiga et al.   Scientific Reports

First Direct Evidence of Long-distance Seasonal Movements and Hibernation in a Migratory Bat

(2016) Theodore J. Weller et al.   Scientific Reports

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

The migration of the great snipeGallinago media: intriguing variations on a grand theme

(2015) Åke Lindström et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Intratropical migration of a Nearctic-Neotropical migratory songbird (Catharus fuscescens) in South America with implications for migration theory

(2015) Christopher M. Heckscher et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Timing of nocturnal passerine migration in Arctic light conditions

(2015) Cecilia Nilsson et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

The roller coaster flight strategy of bar-headed geese conserves energy during Himalayan migrations

(2015) C. M. Bishop et al.   SCIENCE

Interpreting behaviors from accelerometry: a method combining simplicity and objectivity

(2015) Philip M. Collins et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Step by step: reconstruction of terrestrial animal movement paths by dead-reckoning

(2015) O. R. Bidder et al.   Movement Ecology

Disentangling Migratory Routes and Wintering Grounds of Iberian Near-Threatened European Rollers Coracias garrulus

(2015) Juan Rodríguez-Ruiz et al.   PLoS One

Hemispheric-scale wind selection facilitates bar-tailed godwit circum-migration of the Pacific

(2014) Robert E. Gill et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Regional and seasonal flight speeds of soaring migrants and the role of weather conditions at hourly and daily scales

(2014) W. M. G. Vansteelant et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Narrow-Front Loop Migration in a Population of the Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus, as Revealed by Satellite Telemetry

(2014) Mikkel Willemoes et al.   PLoS One

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

Arctic TernsSterna paradisaeafrom the Netherlands Migrate Record Distances Across Three Oceans to Wilkes Land, East Antarctica

(2013) Ruben C. Fijn et al.   ARDEA

New discoveries in landbird migration using geolocators, and a flight plan for the future

(2013) Emily A. McKinnon et al.   AUK

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

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

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

Animal-mounted gyroscope/accelerometer/magnetometer: In situ measurement of the movement performance of fast-start behaviour in fish

(2013) Takuji Noda et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Predictive ethoinformatics reveals the complex migratory behaviour of a pelagic seabird, the Manx Shearwater

(2013) R. Freeman et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Annual Cycle and Migration Strategies of a Trans-Saharan Migratory Songbird: A Geolocator Study in the Great Reed Warbler

(2013) Hilger W. Lemke et al.   PLoS One

First evidence of a 200-day non-stop flight in a bird

(2013) Felix Liechti et al.   Nature Communications

Contrasting extreme long-distance migration patterns in bar-tailed godwits Limosa lapponica

(2012) Phil F. Battley et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Accelerometer tags: detecting and identifying activities in fish and the effect of sampling frequency

(2012) F. Broell et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Tri-Axial Dynamic Acceleration as a Proxy for Animal Energy Expenditure; Should We Be Summing Values or Calculating the Vector?

(2012) Lama Qasem et al.   PLoS One

Interspecific Comparison of the Performance of Soaring Migrants in Relation to Morphology, Meteorological Conditions and Migration Strategies

(2012) Ugo Mellone et al.   PLoS One

Migration Routes and Strategies in a Highly Aerial Migrant, the Common Swift Apus apus, Revealed by Light-Level Geolocators

(2012) Susanne Åkesson et al.   PLoS One

The paradox of extreme high-altitude migration in bar-headed geese Anser indicus

(2012) L. A. Hawkes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Drought in Africa Caused Delayed Arrival of European Songbirds

(2012) A. P. Tottrup et al.   SCIENCE

Adaptive Sleep Loss in Polygynous Pectoral Sandpipers

(2012) J. A. Lesku et al.   SCIENCE

Daily Travel Schedules of Adult Eurasian HobbiesFalco subbuteo— Variability in Flight Hours and Migration Speed Along the Route

(2011) Roine Strandberg et al.   ARDEA

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

(2011) Alexander M. Mills et al.   CONDOR

Circadian control of nocturnal songbird migration

(2011) Timothy Coppack 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

The annual cycle of a trans-equatorial Eurasian-African passerine migrant: different spatio-temporal strategies for autumn and spring migration

(2011) A. P. Tottrup et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sensing Movement: Microsensors for Body Motion Measurement

(2011) Hansong Zeng et al.   SENSORS

Assessing the development and application of the accelerometry technique for estimating energy expenditure

(2010) Lewis G. Halsey et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

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

(2010) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Tracking of Arctic terns Sterna paradisaea reveals longest animal migration

(2010) C. Egevang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extreme Endurance Migration: What Is the Limit to Non-Stop Flight?

(2010) Anders Hedenström   PLOS BIOLOGY

Trans-Sahara migrants select flight altitudes to minimize energy costs rather than water loss

(2009) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Under Cover of Darkness: Nocturnal Life of Diurnal Birds

(2009) Andrey Mukhin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

Can Ethograms Be Automatically Generated Using Body Acceleration Data from Free-Ranging Birds?

(2009) Kentaro Q. Sakamoto et al.   PLoS One

Migration and stopover in a small pelagic seabird, the Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus: insights from machine learning

(2009) T Guilford et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Observation of Daytime Sleep-like Behavior in a Migratory Songbird during Stopover

(2009) Zoltán Németh   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Flexibility in daily travel routines causes regional variation in bird migration speed

(2008) Raymond H. G. Klaassen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Daytime micro-naps in a nocturnal migrant: an EEG analysis

(2008) T Fuchs et al.   Biology Letters

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