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View article: Overcoming Innate Lateralization Improves Avian Flight Performance
Overcoming Innate Lateralization Improves Avian Flight Performance Open
Behavioural lateralization -behavioural side-bias or handedness-enhances neurological processing efficiency and task execution but creates a dilemma for behaviours requiring symmetry. Flight demands symmetric execution, particularly when o…
View article: Golden eagles regularly use gravity waves to soar in the Alps: new insights from high-resolution weather data
Golden eagles regularly use gravity waves to soar in the Alps: new insights from high-resolution weather data Open
1 Abstract Soaring flight developed as a result of behavioural and morphological adaptations that allow birds to reduce the metabolic cost of flight by harnessing the energy available in the atmosphere. Despite an increased attention given…
View article: Author response: Developmental stage shapes the realized energy landscape for a flight specialist
Author response: Developmental stage shapes the realized energy landscape for a flight specialist Open
View article: Author response: Developmental stage shapes the realized energy landscape for a flight specialist
Author response: Developmental stage shapes the realized energy landscape for a flight specialist Open
The heterogeneity of the physical environment determines the cost of transport for animals, shaping their energy landscape. Animals respond to this energy landscape by adjusting their distribution and movement to maximize gains and reduce …
View article: Developmental stage shapes the realized energy landscape for a flight specialist
Developmental stage shapes the realized energy landscape for a flight specialist Open
The heterogeneity of the physical environment determines the cost of transport for animals, shaping their energy landscape. Animals respond to this energy landscape by adjusting their distribution and movement to maximize gains and reduce …
View article: Developmental stage determines the realized energy landscape for a flight specialist
Developmental stage determines the realized energy landscape for a flight specialist Open
The heterogeneity of the physical environment determines the cost of transport for animals, shaping their energy landscape. Animals respond to this energy landscape by adjusting their distribution and movement to maximize gains and reduce …
View article: Experience reduces route selection for conspecifics by the collectively migrating white stork
Experience reduces route selection for conspecifics by the collectively migrating white stork Open
Migration can be an energetically costly behavior with strong fitness consequences in terms of mortality and reproduction.1,2,3,4,5,
View article: Experience reduces route selection on conspecifics by the collectively migrating white stork
Experience reduces route selection on conspecifics by the collectively migrating white stork Open
Summary Migration can be an energetically costly behavior with strong fitness consequences in terms of mortality and reproduction 1–11 . Migrants should select migratory routes to minimize their costs, but both costs and benefits may chang…
View article: Developmental stage shapes the realized energy landscape for a flight specialist
Developmental stage shapes the realized energy landscape for a flight specialist Open
The heterogeneity of the physical environment determines the cost of transport for animals, shaping their energy landscape. Animals respond to this energy landscape by adjusting their distribution and movement to maximize gains and reduce …
View article: Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes
Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes Open
View article: Experience does not change the importance of wind support for migratory route selection by a soaring bird
Experience does not change the importance of wind support for migratory route selection by a soaring bird Open
Migration is a complex behaviour that is costly in terms of time, energy and risk of mortality. Thermal soaring birds rely on airflow, specifically wind support and uplift, to offset their energetic costs of flight. Their migratory routes …
View article: New frontiers in bird migration research
New frontiers in bird migration research Open
View article: Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima and responses to extremes
Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima and responses to extremes Open
Summary Storms can cause widespread seabird strandings and wrecking 1,2,3,4,5 , yet little is known about the maximum wind speeds that birds are able to tolerate or the conditions they avoid. We analyzed > 300,000 hours of tracking data fr…
View article: Experience does not change the importance of wind support for migratory route selection by a soaring bird
Experience does not change the importance of wind support for migratory route selection by a soaring bird Open
Migration is a complex behavior that is costly in terms of time, energy, and risk of mortality. Thermal soaring birds rely on airflow, specifically wind support and uplift, to offset their energetic costs of flight. Their migratory routes …
View article: data_annotated_locations;code_data_processing_and_SSFs from Experience does not change the importance of wind support for migratory route selection by a soaring bird
data_annotated_locations;code_data_processing_and_SSFs from Experience does not change the importance of wind support for migratory route selection by a soaring bird Open
Migration is a complex behaviour that is costly in terms of time, energy and risk of mortality. Thermal soaring birds rely on airflow, specifically wind support and uplift, to offset their energetic costs of flight. Their migratory routes …
View article: Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity.
Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity. Open
The widely held assumption that any important scientific information would be available in English underlies the underuse of non-English-language science across disciplines. However, non-English-language science is expected to bring unique…
View article: The interplay of wind and uplift facilitates over-water flight in facultative soaring birds
The interplay of wind and uplift facilitates over-water flight in facultative soaring birds Open
Flying over the open sea is energetically costly for terrestrial birds. Despite this, over-water journeys of many birds, sometimes hundreds of kilometres long, are uncovered by bio-logging technology. To understand how these birds afford t…
View article: Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity
Tapping into non-English-language science for the conservation of global biodiversity Open
The widely held assumption that any important scientific information would be available in English underlies the underuse of non-English-language science across disciplines. However, non-English-language science is expected to bring unique…
View article: The interplay of wind and uplift facilitates over-water flight in facultative soaring birds
The interplay of wind and uplift facilitates over-water flight in facultative soaring birds Open
Flying over the open sea is energetically costly for terrestrial birds. Despite this, over-water journeys of many birds, sometimes hundreds of kilometers long, are uncovered by bio-logging technology. To understand how these birds afford t…
View article: Sea-Crossing Along Migratory Flyways is More Strongly Limited by Wind than by Lack of Uplift
Sea-Crossing Along Migratory Flyways is More Strongly Limited by Wind than by Lack of Uplift Open
View article: Dynamics of the energy seascape can explain intra-specific variations in sea-crossing behaviour of soaring birds
Dynamics of the energy seascape can explain intra-specific variations in sea-crossing behaviour of soaring birds Open
Thermal soaring birds extract energy from the atmosphere to achieve energetically low-cost movement. When encountering regions that are energetically costly to fly over, such as open seas, they should attempt to adjust the spatio-temporal …
View article: Dynamics of the energy seascape can explain intra-specific variations in sea-crossing behaviour of soaring birds
Dynamics of the energy seascape can explain intra-specific variations in sea-crossing behaviour of soaring birds Open
Thermal soaring birds extract energy from the atmosphere to achieve energetically low-cost movement. When encountering regions that are energetically costly to fly over, such as open seas, they attempt to adjust the spatio-temporal pattern…
View article: Supplementary material from "Dynamics of the energy seascape can explain intra-specific variations in sea-crossing behaviour of soaring birds"
Supplementary material from "Dynamics of the energy seascape can explain intra-specific variations in sea-crossing behaviour of soaring birds" Open
Thermal soaring birds extract energy from the atmosphere to achieve energetically low-cost movement. When encountering regions that are energetically costly to fly over, such as open seas, they should attempt to adjust the spatio-temporal …
View article: ESM 1 from Dynamics of the energy seascape can explain intra-specific variations in sea-crossing behaviour of soaring birds
ESM 1 from Dynamics of the energy seascape can explain intra-specific variations in sea-crossing behaviour of soaring birds Open
Metadata of bio-logging data for adult honey buzzards Pernis apivorus breeding in Finland.
View article: Raptor migration in an oceanic flyway: wind and geography shape the migratory route of grey-faced buzzards in East Asia
Raptor migration in an oceanic flyway: wind and geography shape the migratory route of grey-faced buzzards in East Asia Open
Flapping flight is relatively costly for soaring birds such as raptors. To avoid costly flight, migrating raptors generally avoid flying over water. As a result, all but one of the global raptor migration flyways are largely over land. The…
View article: Supplementary material from "Raptor migration in an oceanic flyway: wind and geography shape the migratory route of grey-faced buzzards in East Asia"
Supplementary material from "Raptor migration in an oceanic flyway: wind and geography shape the migratory route of grey-faced buzzards in East Asia" Open
Flapping flight is relatively costly for soaring birds such as raptors. To avoid costly flight, migrating raptors generally avoid flying over water. As a result, all but one of the global raptor migration flyways are largely over land. The…
View article: Input data for step selection function from Raptor migration in an oceanic flyway: wind and geography shape the migratory route of grey-faced buzzards in East Asia
Input data for step selection function from Raptor migration in an oceanic flyway: wind and geography shape the migratory route of grey-faced buzzards in East Asia Open
Each row of the table represent one point used in the analysis. X and y indicate geographic longitude and latitude, respectively. Used shows whether the point was an actual observation using satellite-tracking (used=1) or was randomly sele…
View article: Input data for step selection function from Raptor migration in an oceanic flyway: wind and geography shape the migratory route of grey-faced buzzards in East Asia.
Input data for step selection function from Raptor migration in an oceanic flyway: wind and geography shape the migratory route of grey-faced buzzards in East Asia. Open
Each row of the table represent one point used in the analysis. X and y indicate geographic longitude and latitude, respectively. Used shows whether the point was an actual observation using satellite-tracking (used=1) or was randomly sele…
View article: Evaluating the future impacts of climate change on the movement of migratory birds
Evaluating the future impacts of climate change on the movement of migratory birds Open
View article: The Effects of Atmospheric Currents on the Migratory Behavior of Soaring Birds: A Review
The Effects of Atmospheric Currents on the Migratory Behavior of Soaring Birds: A Review Open
Atmospheric currents influence the choice of migratory routes and flight characteristics of birds as well as their decisions regarding migration onset and stopovers. Among long distance avian migrants, soaring birds are particularly depend…