Challenges and benefits of using unstructured citizen science data to estimate seasonal timing of bird migration across large scales. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Millions of bird observations have been entered on online portals in the past 20 years either as checklists or arbitrary individual entries. While several hundred publications have been written on a variety of topics based on bird checklists worldwide ...
Nadja Weisshaupt +3 more
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Space weather disrupts nocturnal bird migration. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Gulson-Castillo ER +8 more
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Fall bird migration in western North America during a period of heightened wildfire activity [PDF]
Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2022 Billions of birds annually migrate between breeding and nonbreeding grounds in North America. During fall 2020, there was a series of alarming mass-mortality events of migratory birds across the western United States, with estimates of 100,000 to 1 ...
Kyle D. Kittelberger +2 more
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Predator–Prey Dynamics Between Eurasian Sparrowhawk and Its Bird Prey During Spring Migration in the Forests at Hel Peninsula (N Poland) over 1982–2024 [PDF]
AnimalsClimate change in Europe can influence the predator–prey interactions, a scarcely studied topic in birds. We examined relationships between the spring passage timing of the Eurasian Sparrowhawk, a generalist peak predator, and its main bird prey species (
Kamila Cymerman, Magdalena Remisiewicz
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The global importance of grasslands underlined by the combination of multiple telemetry tracking techniques of a trans-equatorial loop migrant bird, the European roller (Coracias garrulus) [PDF]
Movement EcologyMigrant birds encounter different conditions and threats across seasons, so their population dynamics are affected by the events in both breeding and nonbreeding seasons.
Orsolya Kiss +5 more
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Synchrony of Bird Migration with Global Dispersal of Avian Influenza Reveals Exposed Bird Orders [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsHighly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) A H5, particularly clade 2.3.4.4, has caused worldwide outbreaks in domestic poultry, occasional spillover to humans, and increasing deaths of diverse species of wild birds since 2014.
Qiqi Yang +19 more
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Advancement in long-distance bird migration through individual plasticity in departure. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2021 Conklin JR, Lisovski S, Battley PF.
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, 1912 Having trained as a civil engineer and surveyor, the ornithologist William Eagle Clarke (1853–1938) established himself in his field by preparing reports on bird migration for the British Association. Focusing on the species passing through the British Isles, Clarke spent many months in various lighthouses and on remote islands.
William Eagle Clarke
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The European Zoological Journal, 2023 Many migrant European birds have been departing their breeding grounds earlier in recent decades in response to rising temperatures from climate change.
A. Pinszke, M. Remisiewicz
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