Body condition explains migratory performance of a long-distance migrant

The Motus Wildlife Tracking System: a collaborative research network to enhance the understanding of wildlife movement

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Fuel loads acquired at a stopover site influence the pace of intercontinental migration in a boreal songbird

(2017) Camila Gómez et al.   Scientific Reports

Flight mode affects allometry of migration range in birds

(2016) Yuuki Y. Watanabe   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

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

Towards a new understanding of migration timing: slower spring than autumn migration in geese reflects different decision rules for stopover use and departure

(2016) Andrea Kölzsch et al.   OIKOS

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

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

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

(2015) Sissel Sjöberg et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

When Siberia came to the Netherlands: the response of continental black-tailed godwits to a rare spring weather event

(2015) Nathan R. Senner et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Seasonal mortality and sequential density dependence in a migratory bird

(2015) Eldar Rakhimberdiev et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Fat, weather, and date affect migratory songbirds’ departure decisions, routes, and time it takes to cross the Gulf of Mexico

(2015) Jill L. Deppe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Recent temperature extremes at high northern latitudes unprecedented in the past 600 years

(2013) Martin P. Tingley et al.   NATURE

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

To fly or not to fly depending on winds: shorebird migration in different seasonal wind regimes

(2012) Johanna Grönroos et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Wind selectivity and partial compensation for wind drift among nocturnally migrating passerines

(2012) James D. McLaren et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Migration and Over-Wintering of Red Knots (Calidris canutus rufa) along the Atlantic Coast of the United States

(2012)   CONDOR

Warming winter effects, fat store accumulation and timing of spring departure of Greenland White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons flavirostris from their winter quarters

(2012) Anthony D. Fox et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Short- and Long-Term Cognitive Effects of Chronic Cannabinoids Administration in Late-Adolescence Rats

(2012) Hila Abush et al.   PLoS One

Foraging Site Selection of Two Subspecies of Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponica: Time Minimizers Accept Greater Predation Danger Than Energy Minimizers

(2011) Sjoerd Duijns et al.   ARDEA

Impacts of wind on individual migration schedules of New Zealand bar-tailed godwits

(2011) Jesse R. Conklin et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Alexander M. Mills et al.   CONDOR

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

Landscape Movements of Migratory Birds and Bats Reveal an Expanded Scale of Stopover

(2011) Philip D. Taylor et al.   PLoS One

Rainfall-induced changes in food availability modify the spring departure programme of a migratory bird

(2011) C. E. Studds et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

RNCEP: global weather and climate data at your fingertips

(2011) Michael U. Kemp et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Reproductive correlates of spring arrival date in the Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus

(2010) Nathan W. Cooper et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Stochastic atmospheric assistance and the use of emergency staging sites by migrants

(2010) J. Shamoun-Baranes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution

(2009) Benjamin M. Bolker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Fuel stores, fuel accumulation, and the decision to depart from a migration stopover site

(2008) Michael Schaub et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

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

(2008) Silke Bauer et al.   ECOLOGY

The breeding behaviour of the Knot Calidris canutus

(2008) D. PHILIP WHITFIELD 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

Adaptations to migration in birds: behavioural strategies, morphology and scaling effects

(2007) A. Hedenstrom   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES