Individual improvements and selective mortality shape lifelong migratory performance

F Sergio, A Tanferna, R De Stephanis, LL Jiménez… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Billions of organisms, from bacteria to humans, migrate each year and research on their
migration biology is expanding rapidly through ever more sophisticated remote sensing …

Circannual variation in movement patterns of the Black Kite (Milvus migrans migrans): a review

M Panuccio, N Agostini, U Mellone… - Ethology Ecology & …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The nominal subspecies of the Black Kite is a summer resident in Europe and Asia that
winters mostly in western Africa, although numbers of birds wintering in the Mediterranean …

GPS-telemetry unveils the regular high-elevation crossing of the Himalayas by a migratory raptor: implications for definition of a “Central Asian Flyway”

N Kumar, U Gupta, YV Jhala, Q Qureshi, AG Gosler… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Remote technologies are producing leapfrog advances in identifying the routes and
connectivity of migratory species, which are still unknown for hundreds of taxa, especially …

Eoldist, a Web Application for Estimating Cautionary Detection Distance of Birds by Automatic Detection Systems to Reduce Collisions With Wind Turbines

J Fluhr, O Duriez, C Blary, T Chambert, B Almasi… - Wind …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The installation of automatic detection systems (ADSs) on operating wind energy facilities is
a mitigation measure to reduce bird collisions. The effectiveness of an ADS depends on a …

Migration distance affects stopover use but not travel speed: contrasting patterns between long‐and short‐distance migrating ospreys

F Monti, D Grémillet, A Sforzi, JM Dominici… - Journal of Avian …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The development of migratory behaviour is a continuous process which is not only
determined by genes, but also moulded by individual differences based on life‐history …

Migration and wintering strategies in vulnerable Mediterranean Osprey populations

F Monti, D Grémillet, A Sforzi, G Sammuri, JM Dominici… - Ibis, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A broad range of migration strategies exist in avian species, and different strategies can
occur in different populations of the same species. For the breeding Osprey Pandion …

The Relationship Between GPS Sampling Interval and Estimated Daily Travel Distances in Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus)

R McCann, AM Bracken, C Christensen… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Modern studies of animal movement use the Global Positioning System (GPS) to estimate
animals' distance traveled. The temporal resolution of GPS fixes recorded should match …

Both short and long distance migrants use energy-minimizing migration strategies in North American herring gulls

CM Anderson, HG Gilchrist, RA Ronconi, KR Shlepr… - Movement Ecology, 2020 - Springer
Background Recent studies have proposed that birds migrating short distances migrate at
an overall slower pace, minimizing energy expenditure, while birds migrating long distances …

Weather-influenced water-crossing behaviour of black kites (Milvus migrans) during migration

I Literák, S Ovčiariková, J Škrábal, H Matušík, R Raab… - Biologia, 2021 - Springer
Abstract From 2014 to 2020, 32 black kites from various European countries were tagged
with telemetry devices and tracked to study their spatiotemporal behaviour. Eleven birds …

Natal dispersal in Black Kites Milvus migrans migrans in Europe

S Ovčiariková, J Škrábal, H Matušík, K Makoň… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The European population of Black Kites of the nominate subspecies Milvus migrans
migrans (Boddaert, 1783) is estimated at 81,200–109,000 pairs. The birds winter in Africa …