New frontiers in bird migration research

A Flack, EO Aikens, A Kölzsch, E Nourani, KRS Snell… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Bird migrations are impressive behavioral phenomena, representing complex
spatiotemporal strategies to balance costs of living while maximizing fitness. The field of bird …

Maximizing biological insights from instruments attached to animals

RS Beltran, AM Kilpatrick, S Picardi, B Abrahms… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
Instruments attached to animals ('biologgers') have facilitated extensive discoveries about
the patterns, causes, and consequences of animal behavior. Here, we present examples of …

Learning shapes the development of migratory behavior

EO Aikens, E Nourani, W Fiedler… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
How animals refine migratory behavior over their lifetime (ie, the ontogeny of migration) is an
enduring question with important implications for predicting the adaptive capacity of …

[HTML][HTML] Translocation of shorebird siblings shows intraspecific variation in migration routines to arise after fledging

AHJ Loonstra, MA Verhoeven, C Both, T Piersma - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Although many recent tracking studies have uncovered considerable variation in the
migratory routines of birds, 1, 2 the source of this variation is surprisingly poorly discussed. 3 …

Animal cognition and culture mediate predator–prey interactions

EIF Wooster, KM Gaynor, AJR Carthey… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
Predator–prey ecology and the study of animal cognition and culture have emerged as
independent disciplines. Research combining these disciplines suggests that both animal …

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 price of being late: short-and long-term consequences of a delayed migration timing

ID Bontekoe, R Hilgartner… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Choosing the right migration timing is critical for migrants because conditions encountered
en route influence movement costs, survival, and, in social migrants, the availability of social …

Advancing gender inclusivity: moving entrepreneurial ecosystems onto new paths

A de Bruin, J Swail - International Journal of Gender and …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Drawing on a constructionist-poststructuralist feminist perspective, this paper aims
to extend thinking on the evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems by exploring how …

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 …

Evidence for an Adaptive, Large‐Scale Range Shift in a Long‐Distance Terrestrial Migrant

E Gurarie, C Beaupré, O Couriot… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐distance migrations are a striking, and strikingly successful, adaptation for highly
mobile terrestrial animals in seasonal environments. However, it remains an open question …