Timing avian long-distance migration: from internal clock mechanisms to global flights

Migration strategies and annual space-use in an Afro-Palaearctic aerial insectivore - the European nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus

(2017) Gabriel Norevik et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Arrival and onset of breeding of three passerine birds in eastern Finland tracks climatic variation and phenology of insects

(2017) Anu Valtonen et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Extreme migration and the individual quality spectrum

(2017) Jesse R. Conklin et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Programmed and flexible: long-term Zugunruhe data highlight the many axes of variation in avian migratory behaviour

(2017) Benjamin M. Van Doren et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Route simulations, compass mechanisms and long-distance migration flights in birds

(2017) Susanne Åkesson et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Methods in field chronobiology

(2017) Davide M. Dominoni et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Chronobiology of interspecific interactions in a changing world

(2017) Noga Kronfeld-Schor et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Seasonal reproductive tactics: annual timing and the capital-to-income breeder continuum

(2017) Cory T. Williams et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Two sides of a coin: ecological and chronobiological perspectives of timing in the wild

(2017) Barbara Helm et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ghrelin affects stopover decisions and food intake in a long-distance migrant

(2017) Wolfgang Goymann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consistency in long-distance bird migration: contrasting patterns in time and space for two raptors

(2016) Yannis Vardanis et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

(2016) Janne Ouwehand et al.   Biology Letters

Differential gene expression in seasonal sympatry: mechanisms involved in diverging life histories

(2016) Adam M. Fudickar et al.   Biology Letters

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

(2016) Anders Hedenström et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Transmission of influenza reflects seasonality of wild birds across the annual cycle

(2016) Nichola J. Hill et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

African departure rather than migration speed determines variation in spring arrival in pied flycatchers

(2016) Janne Ouwehand et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Breeding latitude leads to different temporal but not spatial organization of the annual cycle in a long-distance migrant

(2016) Martins Briedis et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

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

Seasonal Time Keeping in a Long-Distance Migrating Shorebird

(2016) Julia Karagicheva et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

Clockgene polymorphism, migratory behaviour and geographic distribution: a comparative study of trans-Saharan migratory birds

(2016) Gaia Bazzi et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Seasonal gene expression in a migratory songbird

(2016) Rachel A. Johnston et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Negotiating an ecological barrier: crossing the Sahara in relation to winds by common swifts

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

Migratory birds under threat

(2016) F. Bairlein   SCIENCE

Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range

(2016) J. A. van Gils et al.   SCIENCE

Gene expression in the brain of a migratory songbird during breeding and migration

(2016) John Boss 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

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

(2015) Sissel Sjöberg et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Assessing vector navigation in long-distance migrating birds

(2015) Susanne Åkesson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

A call for full annual cycle research in animal ecology

(2015) Peter P. Marra et al.   Biology Letters

Global aerial flyways allow efficient travelling

(2015) B. Kranstauber et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Timing is crucial for consequences of migratory connectivity

(2015) Silke Bauer et al.   OIKOS

Extreme variation in migration strategies between and within wandering albatross populations during their sabbatical year and their fitness consequences

(2015) Henri Weimerskirch et al.   Scientific Reports

Carry-Over Effects of Nonbreeding Habitat on Start-to-Finish Spring Migration Performance of a Songbird

(2015) Emily A. McKinnon et al.   PLoS One

Hybrid songbirds employ intermediate routes in a migratory divide

(2014) Kira E. Delmore et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Evidence for Sex-Segregated Ocean Distributions of First-Winter Wandering Albatrosses at Crozet Islands

(2014) Susanne Åkesson et al.   PLoS One

Testing avian compass calibration: comparative experiments with diurnal and nocturnal passerine migrants in South Sweden

(2014) S. Akesson et al.   Biology Open

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

(2014) David W Winkler et al.   Movement Ecology

Climate change and timing of avian breeding and migration: evolutionary versus plastic changes

(2013) Anne Charmantier et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Contributions of endocrinology to the migration life history of birds

(2013) J.M. Cornelius et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Absolute Consistency: Individual versus Population Variation in Annual-Cycle Schedules of a Long-Distance Migrant Bird

(2013) Jesse R. Conklin et al.   PLoS One

When the Seasons Don't Fit: Speedy Molt as a Routine Carry-Over Cost of Reproduction

(2013) Maurine W. Dietz et al.   PLoS One

Towards a Solution to the Goose-Agriculture Conflict in North Norway, 1988–2012: The Interplay between Policy, Stakeholder Influence and Goose Population Dynamics

(2013) Ingunn M. Tombre et al.   PLoS One

Neural Correlates of Migration: Activation of Hypothalamic Clock(s) in and out of Migratory State in the Blackheaded Bunting (Emberiza melanocephala)

(2013) Ashutosh Rastogi et al.   PLoS One

Annual rhythms that underlie phenology: biological time-keeping meets environmental change

(2013) B. Helm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A blind spot in climate change vulnerability assessments

(2013) Stacy L. Small-Lorenz et al.   Nature Climate Change

North American ornithology in transition

(2012) D. L. Altshuler et al.   Biology Letters

Where on earth can animals use a geomagnetic bi-coordinate map for navigation?

(2012) Jannika E. Boström et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A Palaearctic migratory raptor species tracks shifting prey availability within its wintering range in the Sahel

(2012) Christiane Trierweiler et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Hypothesis

(2012) David G. Hazlerigg et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

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

Repeat Tracking of Individual Songbirds Reveals Consistent Migration Timing but Flexibility in Route

(2012) Calandra Q. Stanley et al.   PLoS One

Drought in Africa Caused Delayed Arrival of European Songbirds

(2012) A. P. Tottrup et al.   SCIENCE

Phase inversion of neural activity in the olfactory and visual systems of a night-migratory bird during migration

(2011) Ashutosh Rastogi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Flyway evolution is too fast to be explained by the modern synthesis: proposals for an ‘extended’ evolutionary research agenda

(2011) Theunis Piersma   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Measuring and Improving Eco-efficiency Using Data Envelopment Analysis

(2011) Neus Sanjuan et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL 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

The genetics of migration on the move

(2011) Miriam Liedvogel et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Autumn orientation behaviour of paddyfield warblers, Acrocephalus agricola, from a recently expanded breeding range on the western Black Sea coast

(2010) Pavel Zehtindjiev et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

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

(2010) W. Goymann et al.   Biology Letters

Flexibility of Timing of Avian Migration to Climate Change Masked by Environmental Constraints En Route

(2010) Christiaan Both   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Migratory Orientation of Blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla): Population-specific Shifts of Direction during the Autumn

(2010) Andreas J. Helbig et al.   ETHOLOGY

Migratory Orientation: Magnetic Compass Orientation of Garden Warblers (Sylvia borin) after a Simulated Crossing of the Magnetic Equator

(2010) Wolfgang Wiltschko et al.   ETHOLOGY

Advancing breeding phenology in response to environmental change in a wild red deer population

(2010) KELLY MOYES et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

What prevents phenological adjustment to climate change in migrant bird species? Evidence against the “arrival constraint” hypothesis

(2010) Anne E. Goodenough et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

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

Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change

(2010) Arpat Ozgul et al.   NATURE

Phenology, seasonal timing and circannual rhythms: towards a unified framework

(2010) M. E. Visser et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Breeding latitude drives individual schedules in a trans-hemispheric migrant bird

(2010) Jesse R. Conklin et al.   Nature Communications

Climate change leads to decreasing bird migration distances

(2009) MARCEL E. VISSER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Circannual basis of geographically distinct bird schedules

(2009) B. Helm et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Genetic, morphological, and feather isotope variation of migratory willow warblers show gradual divergence in a ring

(2009) STAFFAN BENSCH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Temperature has a causal effect on avian timing of reproduction

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

Avian population consequences of climate change are most severe for long-distance migrants in seasonal habitats

(2009) C. Both et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tracking Long-Distance Songbird Migration by Using Geolocators

(2009) B. J. M. Stutchbury et al.   SCIENCE

ENDOGENOUS CIRCANNUAL RHYTHMICITY IN BODY MASS, MOLT, AND PLUMAGE OF GREAT KNOTS (CALIDRIS TENUIROSTRIS)

(2008) THEUNIS PIERSMA et al.   AUK

Circadian flight schedules in night-migrating birds caught on migration

(2008) T. Coppack et al.   Biology Letters

Avian migrants adjust migration in response to environmental conditions en route

(2008) A. P. Tottrup et al.   Biology Letters

THE RELEVANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS FOR DEPARTURE DECISION CHANGES EN ROUTE IN MIGRATING GEESE

(2008) Silke Bauer et al.   ECOLOGY

PERSPECTIVE: Potential responses to climate change in organisms with complex life histories: evolution and plasticity in Pacific salmon

(2008) L. G. Crozier et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Keeping up with early springs: rapid range expansion in an avian herbivore incurs a mismatch between reproductive timing and food supply

(2008) HENK P. VAN DER JEUGD et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

THE SAHEL ZONE AS AN ENVIRONMENT FOR PALAEARCTIC MIGRANTS

(2008) Gerard Morel   IBIS

THE SOUTHWARD MIGRATION OF PALAEARCTIC BIRDS OVER NGULIA, KENYA

(2008) D. J. Pearson et al.   IBIS

FACTORS AFFECTING THE FOOD SUPPLY AND BREEDING SEASON OF RESIDENT BIRDS AND MOVEMENTS OF PALAEARCTIC MIGRANTS IN A TROPICAL AFRICAN SAVANNAH

(2008) A. R. E. SINCLAIR   IBIS

EXPERIMENTS ON BIRD ORIENTATION AND THEIR INTERPRETATION.

(2008) Gustav Kramer   IBIS

Circannual clocks in avian reproduction and migration

(2008) EBERHARD GWINNER   IBIS

Migration, stopover and moult of the Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus in Ghana, West Africa

(2008) ANDERS HEDENSTRÖM et al.   IBIS

Populations of migratory bird species that did not show a phenological response to climate change are declining

(2008) A. P. Moller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Optimal annual routines: behaviour in the context of physiology and ecology

(2007) J. M McNamara et al.   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

Travelling on a budget: predictions and ecological evidence for bottlenecks in the annual cycle of long-distance migrants

(2007) D. M Buehler et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES