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

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

Ecology of tern flight in relation to wind, topography and aerodynamic theory

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

Are flight paths of nocturnal songbird migrants influenced by local coastlines at a peninsula?

(2016) Cecilia Nilsson et al.   Current Zoology

Migratory blackcaps can use their magnetic compass at 5 degrees inclination, but are completely random at 0 degrees inclination

(2016) Susanne Schwarze 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

Movement decisions in natural catastrophes: how a flying scavenger deals with a volcanic eruption

(2015) Pablo A.E. Alarcón et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Detection of flow direction in high-flying insect and songbird migrants

(2015) Jason W. Chapman et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

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

Migratory blackcaps tested in Emlen funnels can orient at 85 degrees but not at 88 degrees magnetic inclination

(2014) N. Lefeldt et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL 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

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

(2014) S. Akesson et al.   Biology Open

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

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

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

(2012) Heiko Schmaljohann et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Cross-hemisphere migration of a 25 g songbird

(2012) F. Bairlein et al.   Biology Letters

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

Great flights by great snipes: long and fast non-stop migration over benign habitats

(2011) R. H. G. Klaassen et al.   Biology Letters

Migratory navigation in birds: new opportunities in an era of fast-developing tracking technology

(2011) T. Guilford et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Compensation for wind drift by migrating swifts

(2010) Håkan Karlsson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Orientation Cage and Release Experiments with Migratory Wheatears (Oenanthe oenanthe) in Scandinavia and Greenland: The Importance of Visual Cues

(2010) Ulf Ottosson 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

Orientation and autumn migration routes of juvenile sharp-tailed sandpipers at a staging site in Alaska

(2010) J. Gronroos et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Avian Navigation

(2009) Roswitha Wiltschko et al.   AUK

Circannual basis of geographically distinct bird schedules

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

Migration and orientation of passerine night migrants in northeast England

(2009) P. R. Evans   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

EXPERIMENTS ON BIRD ORIENTATION *.

(2008) Gustav Kramer.   IBIS

EXPERIMENTS ON BIRD ORIENTATION AND THEIR INTERPRETATION.

(2008) Gustav Kramer   IBIS

Circannual clocks in avian reproduction and migration

(2008) EBERHARD GWINNER   IBIS

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