Migration is a task that implies a route, a goal and a period of time. To achieve this task, it
requires orientation abilities to find the goal and energy to cover the distance. Completing …

Effects of daily changes in weather on numbers of birds taking off on migration have been
investigated for many decades. This field was especially active in the 1960s and 1970s …

Long‐distance migration has evolved in many organisms moving through different media
and using various modes of locomotion and transport. Migration continues to evolve or …

The aim of this book is to give a general overview of the whole subject of bird migration. After
a chapter describing the Earth's climate and ecosystem, the book is divided into three main …

Shorebirds are the most visible inhabitants of coastal wetlands worldwide. Many undertake
spectacularly long flights between their wintering and breeding grounds, embodying the …

Why do some birds migrate during daytime and others at night? Why do some fly at high
altitudes and others at lower altitudes'? Whereas no comprehensive explanation of the diel …

We examine the potential selective importance of predation danger on the evolution of
migration strategies of arctic‐breeding calidrid sandpipers. Adult calidrids truncate parental …

ABSTRACT A single population of Bar-tailed Godwits limosa lapponica was studied before
departure from their wintering grounds on the Banc d'Arguin in Mauritania, and at a spring …

Populations of the Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica; Scolopacidae) embark on some of
the longest migrations known among birds. The baueri race breeds in western Alaska and …

Large populations of 34 species of shorebirds migrate in late summer and fall to the wide
muddy intertidal areas of the upper Bay of Fundy in preparation for the transoceanic flight to …