Adult vultures outperform juveniles in challenging thermal soaring conditions

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

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

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

Seasonal modulation of flight speed among nocturnal passerine migrants: differences between short- and long-distance migrants

(2014) Cecilia Nilsson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Bird sky networks: How do avian scavengers use social information to find carrion?

(2014) Ainara Cortés-Avizanda et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Nir Horvitz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Individual improvements and selective mortality shape lifelong migratory performance

(2014) Fabrizio Sergio et al.   NATURE

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

Air speeds of migrating birds observed by ornithodolite and compared with predictions from flight theory

(2013) C. J. Pennycuick et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Do naive juvenile seabirds forage differently from adults?

(2013) L. Riotte-Lambert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social Learning of Migratory Performance

(2013) T. Mueller et al.   SCIENCE

Flying with the wind: scale dependency of speed and direction measurements in modelling wind support in avian flight

(2013) Kamran Safi et al.   Movement Ecology

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

Using tri-axial acceleration data to identify behavioral modes of free-ranging animals: general concepts and tools illustrated for griffon vultures

(2012) R. Nathan et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Quantifying flow-assistance and implications for movement research

(2012) Michael U. Kemp et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Testing an Emerging Paradigm in Migration Ecology Shows Surprising Differences in Efficiency between Flight Modes

(2012) Adam E. Duerr et al.   PLoS One

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

(2011) Gil Bohrer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The ecology and evolution of partial migration

(2011) Ben B. Chapman et al.   OIKOS

Energy Beyond Food: Foraging Theory Informs Time Spent in Thermals by a Large Soaring Bird

(2011) Emily L. C. Shepard et al.   PLoS One

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

Impact of food predictability on social facilitation by foraging scavengers

(2010) Chloé Deygout et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Flight Modes in Migrating European Bee-Eaters: Heart Rate May Indicate Low Metabolic Rate during Soaring and Gliding

(2010) Nir Sapir et al.   PLoS One

The effect of social facilitation on foraging success in vultures: a modelling study

(2008) A. L. Jackson et al.   Biology Letters

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