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Spatial and Temporal Variability in Migration of a Soaring Raptor Across Three Continents

2019

Disentangling individual- and population-level variation in migratory movements is necessary for understanding migration at the species level. However, very few studies have analyzed these patterns across large portions of species' distributions. We compiled a large telemetry dataset on the globally endangered egyptian vulture neophron percnopterus (94 individuals, 188 completed migratory journeys), tracked across similar to 70% of the species' global range, to analyze spatial and temporal variability of migratory movements within and among individuals and populations. We found high migratory connectivity at large spatial scales (i.e., different subpopulations showed little overlap in winte…

The Indo‐European flyway: Opportunities and constraints reflected by Common Rosefinches breeding across Europe

2021

Trans-equatorial migration routes, staging sites and wintering areas of a High-Arctic avian predator: the Long-tailed Skua (Stercorarius longicaudus).

2013

The Long-tailed Skua, a small (,300 g) Arctic-breeding predator and seabird, is a functionally very important component of the Arctic vertebrate communities in summer, but little is known about its migration and winter distribution. We used lightlevel geolocators to track the annual movements of eight adult birds breeding in north-east Greenland (n = 3) and Svalbard (n = 5). All birds wintered in the Southern Hemisphere (mean arrival-departure dates on wintering grounds: 24 October-21 March): five along the south-west coast of Africa (0–40uS, 0–15uE), in the productive Benguela upwelling, and three further south (30–40uS, 0–50uE), in an area extending into the south-west Indian Ocean. Diffe…

Autumn migration of soaring birds through the Gebel El Zeit Important Bird Area (IBA), Egypt, threatened by wind farm projects

2011

SummarySystematic bird observations were performed during autumn 2006 in the migration bottleneck area of Zeit Bay, Egypt (27.73°N, 33.51°E), situated on the coast of the Gulf of Suez, opposite southern Sinai. Owing to the strong northerly winds in that area, considerable pressure exists to construct wind farms. A total of 145,432 soaring birds, including 134,599 storks and 9,376 raptors over a period of 453.6 hours were observed between 20 August and 29 October by two teams working daily in two shifts. White Stork Ciconia ciconia and European Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus were the most numerous species (91.4% and 5.7% respectively) of all soaring birds observed. As both species migrate ear…

The desert at Zait Bay, Egypt: a bird migration bottleneck of global importance

2009

The study area at Zait Bay, Egypt (c. 700 km2) is situated in the middle of the West Asian-East African migration flyway used by very large numbers of soaring migrants. At this site the corridor narrows into a bottleneck. There exist only very few bottlenecks of this magnitude in the world. Observations were performed at all hours between sunrise and sunset at 26 observation sites, situated 5 km apart. The northern part of the area under investigation (19 observation sites) was situated within the Gebel El Zeit IBA (criteria A1 and A4iv), while the southernmost part (8 observation sites) was outside. The overall evaluation has shown that 179,681 soaring birds including 122,454 storks and 36…

Fly-and-Forage Strategy in the Bat Pipistrellus nathusii During Autumn Migration

2012

Populations of Pipistrellus nathusii (Nathusius's bat), an insectivorous aerial-hawking species that breeds in north-eastern Europe, perform long-distance migrations between breeding sites and hibernation areas in central and southern Europe. The feeding strategy of migrating P. nathusii was investigated in Latvia on the east coast of the Baltic Sea, exploring evidence for and against two non-mutually exclusive predictions that i) the bats feed shortly after dusk at highest aerial insect activity and continue to migrate thereafter or ii) apply a ‘fly-and-forage’ strategy and frequently interrupt their migration flight to feed. Echolocation calls and feeding buzzes of P. nathusii were record…

Geolocators reveal variation and sex-specific differences in the migratory strategies of a long-distance migrant

2021

Bell F, Bearhop S, Briedis M, El Harouchi M, Bell SC, Castello J, Burgess M. 2022. Geolocators reveal variation and sex-specific differences in the migratory strategies of a long-distance migrant. Ibis. doi:10.1111/ibi.13017

Geolocators reveal variation and sex-specific differences in the migratory strategies of a long-distance migrant-reference-data

2021

Bell F, Bearhop S, Briedis M, El Harouchi M, Bell SC, Castello J, Burgess M. 2022. Geolocators reveal variation and sex-specific differences in the migratory strategies of a long-distance migrant. Ibis. doi:10.1111/ibi.13017

Data from: Geolocators reveal variation and sex-specific differences in the migratory strategies of a long-distance migrant

2021

Bell F, Bearhop S, Briedis M, El Harouchi M, Bell SC, Castello J, Burgess M. 2022. Geolocators reveal variation and sex-specific differences in the migratory strategies of a long-distance migrant. Ibis. doi:10.1111/ibi.13017

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2021

Lisovski S, Neumann R, Albrecht T, Munclinger P, Ahola M, Bauer S, Cepak J, Fransson T, Jakobsson S, Jaakkonen T, Klvana P, Kullberg C, Laaksonen T, Metzger B, Piha M, Shurulinkov P, Stach R, Strom K, Velmala W, Briedis M. 2021. The Indo-European Flyway: opportunities and constraints reflected by common rosefinches breeding across Europe. J Biogeogr. doi:10.1111/jbi.14085