Avian use of agricultural areas as migration stopover sites: a review of crop management practices and ecological correlates

JD Blount, JJ Horns, KD Kittelberger… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
An estimated 17% of migratory bird species are threatened or near threatened with
extinction. This represents an enormous potential loss of biodiversity and cost to human …

A classification scheme for mixed-species bird flocks

GG Mangini, CL Rutt, H Sridhar… - … of the Royal …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The literature on mixed-species flocks references a wide variety of bird associations. These
studies, however, have used an array of unstructured characteristics to describe flocks …

Persistent species relationships characterize migrating bird communities across stopover sites and seasons

JG DeSimone, LW DeGroote, SA MacKenzie… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
Global migrations of diverse animal species often converge along the same routes, bringing
together seasonal assemblages of animals that may compete, prey on each other, and …

The conservation implications of mixed-species flocking in terrestrial birds, a globally-distributed species interaction network

F Zou, H Jones, D Jiang, TM Lee, A Martínez… - Biological …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Conservation biologists now view species interaction networks as systems that should be
targets of conservation, but there are few actual cases in which networks have formed the …

Mixed-species flocks: an example of niche construction?

NM Harrison, MJ Whitehouse - Animal Behaviour, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Mixed-species flocks result from coevolved relationships between participants: interspecific
gregariousness that varies in strength in different species pairs or groups. Such interspecific …

Biotelemetry of New World thrushes during migration: physiology, energetics and orientation in the wild

MS Bowlin, WW Cochran… - … and Comparative Biology, 2005‏ - academic.oup.com
Billions of songbirds migrate between continents each year, but we have yet to obtain
enough information on in-flight physiology and energetics to fully understand the migratory …

Social associations across species during nocturnal bird migration

BM Van Doren, JG DeSimone, JA Firth, F Hillemann… - Current Biology, 2025‏ - cell.com
An emerging frontier in ecology explores how organisms integrate social information into
movement behavior and the extent to which information exchange occurs across species …

Stopover habitats of landbirds during fall: use of edge-dominated and early-successional forests

PG Rodewald, MC Brittingham - The Auk, 2004‏ - academic.oup.com
Despite much interest in the conservation of landbirds during migratory stopover periods,
relatively few studies have examined spatial and temporal variation in habitat use and …

Species traits and latitude mediate bird responses to forest edges globally

LM Vallejos, JA Prevedello, MB Vecchi, MAS Alves - Landscape Ecology, 2024‏ - Springer
Context Although local studies comparing species abundance between forest edges and
interiors are common, general patterns in the response of different species to edges are still …

A systematic review of forest bird occurrence in North American forest fragments and the built environment

JMJ Archer, ME Hostetler, G Acomb, R Blair - Landscape and Urban …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Urban decision-makers typically cannot utilize empirical bird studies to create bird-friendly
landscape designs because academic results are often in a format that is not easily …