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Title Author Publication Date Publisher
  1. 2022-04-08
    Reduced diurnal activity and increased stopover duration by molting Swainson’s Thrushes
    Ana Morales, Barbara Frei, Greg W Mitchell, Camille Bégin-Marchand, Kyle H Elliott
  2. 2020-09-15
    Evening locomotor activity during stopover differs on pre-departure and departure days in free-living songbirds
    Yolanda E. Morbey, Andrew T. Beauchamp, Simon J. Bonner, Greg W. Mitchell
  3. 2017-01-05
    Evaluation of sex differences in the stopover behavior and postdeparture movements of wood-warblers
    Yolanda E. Morbey, Christopher G. Guglielmo, Philip D. Taylor, Ivan Maggini, Jessica Deakin, Stuart A. Mackenzie, J. Morgan Brown, Lin Zhao, David Stephens
  4. 2025
    In the clear: weather drives the northward movement of American Tree Sparrows ( Spizelloides arborea ) as spring progresses
    Yolanda Morbey, Kevin Hannah, Jeffrey Costa, Jackson Kusack, Stuart Mackenzie
    Migratory phenology Journal of Field Ornithology
  5. 2019-11-17
    Summer movements of a radio-tagged Hoary Bat ( Lasiurus cinereus ) captured in southwestern Ontario
    Derek Morningstar, Al Sandilands
  6. 2018-06-22
    Does the length of the night affect the timing of nocturnal departures in a migratory songbird?
    Florian Müller, Georg Rüppel, Heiko Schmaljohann
  7. 2016-10-17
    Towards a conceptual framework for explaining variation in nocturnal departure time of songbird migrants
    Florian Müller, Philip D. Taylor, Sissel Sjöberg, Rachel Muheim, Arseny Tsvey, Stuart A. Mackenzie, Heiko Schmaljohann
    Departure decisions Movement Ecology
  8. 2025-01
    Genetic relatedness shapes social dynamics in a threatened finch: implications for population assessment
    Mara F. Müller, Cameron J. Baker, Sam C. Banks, Mariana A. Campbell, Tara L. Crewe, Mirjam Kaestli, Sydney J. Collett, Ian J. Radford, Hamish A. Campbell
  9. 2018-03-05
    Nocturnal departure timing in songbirds facing distinct migratory challenges
    Florian Müller, Cas Eikenaar, Zoe J. Crysler, Philip D. Taylor, Heiko Schmaljohann
  10. 2022-9-2
    Length of stay and departure strategies of Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) during post-breeding migration in the upper Bay of Fundy, Canada
    Sarah G. Neima, Rebeca C. Linhart, Diana J. Hamilton, Cheri L. Gratto-Trevor, Julie Paquet
  11. 2020-04-22
    Intra- and interannual regional fidelity of Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) during migratory stopover in the upper Bay of Fundy, Canada
    Sarah Neima, Diana Hamilton, Cheri Gratto-Trevor, Julie Paquet
  12. 2023
    Moving the goalposts: migratory birds in a changing world
    Claire E. Nemes
  13. 2023-11-16
    Springing forward: Migrating songbirds catch up with the start of spring in North America
    Claire E. Nemes, Peter P. Marra, Theodore J. Zenzal Jr, Samantha A. Collins, Bryant C. Dossman, Alexander R. Gerson, Camila Gómez, Ana M. González, Mariamar Gutierrez Ramirez, Sarah A. Hamer, Joseph Marty, Phillip L. Vasseur, Emily B. Cohen
  14. 2025-02-17
    Close encounters: behavioral responses of migrating songbirds to the perceived risk of predation
    Claire E Nemes, Andrea M Lindsay, Lucas W DeGroote, Emily B Cohen, Emilie Snell-Rood
  15. 2025-05
    Tracking Fall Migration with the Motus Wildlife Tracking System: The Fate of Window-struck and Captive-raised Passerines
    Cailin O'Connor
  16. 2021-11-15
    Exploring the Strategies of First Migration in the Subarctic-Nesting Shorebird, Calidris Alpina Hudsonia
    Victor Olek
  17. 2020-02-07
    Stopover departure decisions in songbirds: do long-distance migrants depart earlier and more independently of weather conditions than medium-distance migrants?
    Florian Packmor, Thomas Klinner, Bradley K. Woodworth, Cas Eikenaar, Heiko Schmaljohann
  18. 2017-01
    Stopover movement patterns by Blackpoll and Canada Warblers across southeastern Canada during fall migration: an automated radio-telemetry study
    Alain Parada Isada
  19. 2023-01-03
    The Big Picture and Future Directions for Urban Bat Conservation and Research
    Krista J. Patriquin, Lauren Moretto, M. Brock Fenton, Lauren Moretto, Joanna L. Coleman, Christina M. Davy, M. Brock Fenton, Carmi Korine, Krista J. Patriquin
  20. 2025-05
    Home range, habitat Use, and fall migration of Lewis’s woodpeckers in the Eastern Cascade Range, Oregon
    Cameron Piper
  21. 2024-01-01
    Peri-urban forest margins are important stopover sites for moult-migrating songbirds
    Vanessa Poirier, Kyle H. Elliott, Barbara Frei
  22. 2023-10-19
    Moult migrant Tennessee Warblers undergo extensive stopover in peri-urban forests of southern Quebec
    Vanessa Poirier, Barbara Frei, Mathilde Lefvert, Ana Morales, Kyle Hamish Elliott
  23. 2026
    Leveraging automated radio telemetry to understand avian presence on a military airfield
    Mackenzie R. Prichard, Levin C. Brandt, Susan N. Ellis-Felege
  24. 2022
    Songbird Behavior and Conservation in the Anthropocene
    Darren S. Proppe
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  25. 2018
    3.3. 2 The Conservation and Management of the North American Black Tern (Chlidonias niger surinamensis) in Michigan
    Caleb Putnam, Stephanie Beilke, Erin Rowan
  26. 2022-05-01
    Cerulean Warbler Full Annual Cycle Ecology: Filling in Critical Knowledge Gaps
    Douglas Raybuck
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  27. 2023-10-19
    Rangewide migratory connectivity and migration ecology in Swainson's Warblers (Limnothlypis swainsonii) derived from multisensor geolocators
    Garrett Rhyne
  28. 2025
    Developing Research Tools for Demographic Study of Rhynchophanes mccownii (Thick-billed Longspurs)
    Megan M, Ring, Rose J. Swift, Michael J. Anteau, Lawrence D. Igl, Mark E. Seamans, Scott G. Somershoe, Jay A. VonBank, John M. Yeiser, Garrett J. MacDonald
  29. 2023-01-01
    Relationship between bats and prairie-dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colonies in Western Kansas
    Mario Rodriguez
  30. 2023-04-21
    Age and Sex Differences in Stopover Behaviours and Flight Performance in Black-throated Blue Warblers
    Patricia Rokitnicki
  31. 2023-06-21
    Avian monitoring results for two years of study at a newly recognized spring migration concentration point in the Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County, California
    Tania Romero, Lauren Hill, Jayde Blair, Walter Sakai, C. John Ralph
    North American Bird Bander
  32. 2023-07-04
    The urge to breed early: Similar responses to environmental conditions in short- and long-distance migrants during spring migration
    Georg Rüppel, Ommo Hüppop, Heiko Schmaljohann, Vera Brust
  33. 2025-07-03
    Movetrack: An R package to model flight paths from radio-telemetry networks
    Georg Rüppel, Vera Brust, Heiko Schmaljohann, Thiemo Karwinkel
  34. 2023-02-08
    Departure, routing and landing decisions of long-distance migratory songbirds in relation to weather
    Georg Rüppel, Ommo Hüppop, Sander Lagerveld, Heiko Schmaljohann, Vera Brust
  35. 2023-02-14
    An ecologist's introduction to continuous-time multi-state models for capture-recapture data
    Clark S. Rushing
    Journal of Animal Ecology
  36. 2019-12-29
    Biological and environmental factors related to communal roosting behavior of breeding Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia)
    Sarah Saldanha, Philip Taylor, Tara Imlay, Marty Leonard
    Colony attendance Site importance Avian Conservation and Ecology
  37. 2023
    South Atlantic Bight – a final stop for Ruddy Turnstones migrating to the Arctic
    Felicia Sanders, Adam Smith, Janet Thibault, Deborah Carter, Maina Handmaker, Fletcher Smith
  38. 2025-02-17
    Multispecies migratory connectivity indicates hemispheric-scale risk to bird populations from global change
    Sarah P. Saunders, William V. DeLuca, Brooke L. Bateman, Jill L. Deppe, Joanna Grand, Erika J. Knight, Timothy D. Meehan, Nicole L. Michel, Nathaniel E. Seavy, Melanie A. Smith, Lotem Taylor, Chad J. Witko, Chad B. Wilsey
    Migratory connectivity Nature Ecology & Evolution
  39. 2022-05
    Characterizing the Migratory Phenology and Routes of the Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) in Northern Utah
    Kim Savides
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  40. 2023-06-22
    Elevational differences in migration phenology of Lazuli Buntings do not support selection-based hypotheses for protandry
    Kim Savides, Clark S Rushing
  41. 2020-07-08
    A quasi-experimental approach using telemetry to assess migration-strategy-specific differences in the decision-making processes at stopover
    Heiko Schmaljohann, Thomas Klinner
  42. 2018-05-10
    Potential age differences in the migratory behaviour of a nocturnal songbird migrant during autumn and spring
    Heiko Schmaljohann, Florian Müller, Thomas Klinner, Cas Eikenaar
  43. 2026-02-27
    Western Snowy Plover and California Least Tern Monitoring in the San Francisco Bay Annual Report 2025
    Maddy Schwarz, Jeremy Reinhard, Josh Scullen
  44. 2019-02-28
    Stopover departure behavior and flight orientation of spring-migrant Yellow-rumped Warblers (Setophaga coronata) experimentally exposed to methylmercury
    Chad L. Seewagen, Yanju Ma, Yolanda E. Morbey, Christopher G. Guglielmo
  45. 2024-10-08
    Examining Environmental and Life History Correlates of Winter and Migratory Movements in a Nomadic Arctic-Breeding Passerine
    Samuelle Simard-Provençal
  46. 2026-01-26
    Divergent migration strategies within a population of Snow Buntings
    Samuelle Simard-Provençal, Oliver O Love, Rebecca J Jardine, Alysha Riquier, Patricia Rokitnicki, Sara Pearce Meikerink, François Vézina, Christina A.D. Semeniuk, Emily A McKinnon
  47. 2018-02
    Tracking Migratory Bird Movements in the Gulf of Maine with Automated Radio Telemetry and Stable Hydrogen Isotope Markers
    Jennifer Smetzer
  48. 2018-05-09
    Prolonged stopover and consequences of migratory strategy on local-scale movements within a regional songbird staging area
    Jennifer Smetzer, David King
  49. 2017-08-05
    Fall migratory departure decisions and routes of Blackpoll Warblers Setophaga striata and Red-eyed Vireos Vireo olivaceus at a coastal barrier in the Gulf of Maine
    Jennifer R. Smetzer, David I. King, Philip D. Taylor
  50. 2023-07-10
    Spring migration patterns of red knots in the Southeast United States disentangled using automated telemetry
    Adam D. Smith, Felicia J. Sanders, Kara L. Lefevre, Janet M. Thibault, Kevin S. Kalasz, Maina C. Handmaker, Fletcher M. Smith, Tim S. Keyes
  51. 2024-02
    Importance of Demographics and Vital Rates to Cavity-Nesting Waterfowl in the Lower Saint John River of New Brunswick, Canada
    Jared Sonnleitner
  52. 2018-06-01
    Radio transmitters did not affect daily nest and chick survival of Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus)
    Michael Stantial, Jonathan Cohen, Abigail Darrah, Kate Laquinto, Pam Loring, Peter Paton
    Reproductive success Survival The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
  53. 2024-12
    Evaluation of automated radio telemetry technologies for ground-dwelling species
    Aubrey Ray Power Sullivan
  54. 2026
    Exploration speed in Red Knots affects spring migration timing, but only after experimentally constrained fuelling conditions
    Tohar Tal, Allert I. Bijleveld, Karein Van Bijssum, Hidde Kressin, Thomas K. Lameris
    Departure decisions International Journal of Avian Science
  55. 2021-04-02
    Factors Influencing Stopover and Movement of Migratory Songbirds within the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge
    Jessica Tatten
  56. 2026-08
    Flying through the seasons: Exploring molecular signatures in wild bird populations to uncover seasonal adaptations
    Trixie Leah Taucher
  57. 2026-06-12
    Gray Bat (Myotis grisescens) Ecology and Movement in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee
    Hila Taylor
  58. 2017
    The Motus Wildlife Tracking System: a collaborative research network to enhance the understanding of wildlife movement
    Philip D. Taylor, Tara L. Crewe, Stuart A. Mackenzie, Denis Lepage, Yves Aubry, Zoe Crysler, George Finney, Charles M. Francis, Christopher G. Guglielmo, Diana J. Hamilton, Rebecca L. Holberton, Pamela H. Loring, Greg W. Mitchell, D. Ryan Norris, Julie Paquet, Robert A. Ronconi, Jennifer R. Smetzer, Paul A. Smith, Linda J. Welch, Bradley K. Woodworth
    Avian Conservation and Ecology
  59. 2011-11-03
    Landscape movements of migratory birds and bats reveal an expanded scale of stopover
    Philip D. Taylor, Stuart A. Mackenzie, Bethany G. Thurber, Anna M. Calvert, Alex M. Mills, Liam P. McGuire, Christopher G. Guglielmo
  60. 2023-08-19
    Migratory behaviour of eastern whip-poor-wills (Antrostomus vociferus): quantifying return rates and the effects of artificial light on flight paths
    Stephanie Thompson
  61. 2021-01-22
    Occurrence of a forest-dwelling bat, northern myotis (Myotis septentrionalis), within Canada’s largest conurbation
    Toby J Thorne, Eryk Matczak, Melissa Donnelly, Maria C Franke, Kevin C R Kerr
    Site importance Urban landscapes Journal of Urban Ecology
  62. 2017-03-31
    A Low-Cost Technique for Radio-Tracking Wildlife Using a Small Standard Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
    Junior A. Tremblay, André Desrochers, Yves Aubry, Paul Pace, David M. Bird
    Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems
  63. 2023-06-14
    Fall migration, oceanic movement, and site residency patterns of eastern red bats (Lasiurus borealis) on the mid-Atlantic Coast
    Michael C. True, Katherine M. Gorman, Hila Taylor, Richard J. Reynolds, W. Mark Ford
  64. 2023
    British Islands Bats
    Bat Conservation Trust
  65. 2023
    Post-breeding ecology in the Prothonotary Warbler: Evaluating trade-offs between breeding, molt, and migration phenology
    Brian Robert Tsuru
  66. 2022-08-23
    Investigating the plasticity of migration timing and roost behaviours to environmental variability and parental care in a colonial songbird
    Christophe Turcotte-van de Rydt
  67. 2024-08
    The role of prealternate moult in nonbreeding period carry-over effects in neotropical migratory songbirds
    Shae Turner
  68. 2024-12-12
    Effects of immune status on stopover departure decisions are subordinate to those of condition, cloud cover and tailwind in autumn‐migrating common blackbirds Turdus merula
    Tjomme van Mastrigt, Kevin D. Matson, Sander Lagerveld, Xinrou S. Huang, Willem F. De Boer, Henk P. Van Der Jeugd
  69. 2018-05-16
    Radio-tagged fledgling Savannah Sparrows Passerculus sandwichensis at risk of entanglement in vegetation
    Heidi E. J. van Vliet, Bridget J. M. Stutchbury
  70. 2020-01-01
    The impacts of agriculture on an obligate grassland bird of North America
    Heidi E. J. van Vliet, Bridget J. M. Stutchbury, Amy E. M. Newman, D. Ryan Norris
  71. 2025-12-03
    Predicting Migratory Survival in a Songbird Hybrid Zone Using Machine Learning
    Sarah A. Vastani, Stephanie A. Blain, Hannah Justen, Wendy E. Easton, Kira E. Delmore
  72. 2024-12-21
    Euphagus carolinus (Rusty Blackbird) from two different breeding populations in northeastern North America exhibit chain migration yet use the same region for stopover
    Jacob Walker, Camille Bégin-Marchand, Alexandre Terrigeol, Jean-François Therrien, Pascal Côté, Levi Burford, Carol R Foss, Junior A Tremblay
  73. 2025
    Insights from a decade of using the Motus network to track boreal bird species from Observatoire d’oiseaux de Tadoussac, Québec to temperate and tropical wintering grounds
    Jacob Walker, Jean-François Therrien, Camille Bégin-Marchand, Pascal Côté, Alexandre Terrigeol, François Gagnon, Junior A. Tremblay
  74. 2026-03
    Three decades of western sandpiper stopover dynamics during northward migration on the Pacific Coast of North America, 1992–2022
    Nils Warnock, Scott A. Flemming, Sydney E. Bliss, Mary Anne Bishop, John Y. Takekawa, Brett K. Sandercock, Sarah E. Warnock, Mark C. Drever
    Stopover duration Journal of Avian Biology
  75. 2020-05-07
    Potential threats to the conservation of eastern North American monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) and a tool for population recovery
    Alana Wilcox
  76. 2021-01-01
    Captive-reared migratory monarch butterflies show natural orientation when released in the wild
    Alana A E Wilcox, Amy E M Newman, Nigel E Raine, Greg W Mitchell, D Ryan Norris
  77. 2021-02-15
    Effects of early-life exposure to sublethal levels of a common neonicotinoid insecticide on the orientation and migration of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus)
    Alana A. E. Wilcox, Amy E. M. Newman, Nigel E. Raine, Greg W. Mitchell, D. Ryan Norris
  78. 2024-03-01
    Early parental nest initiation carries over to the departure date and quality of fledglings from the breeding grounds in the Purple Martin
    H. M. Williams, E. E. DeLeon, R. L. DeLeon
  79. 2023
    New insights into the influence of turbines on the behaviour of migrant birds: implications for predicting impacts of offshore wind developments on wildlife
    J. Robinson Willmott, G. Forcey, M. Vukovich
    Industrial development Journal of Physics: Conference Series
  80. 2015
    Patterns and correlates of songbird movements at an ecological barrier during autumn migration assessed using landscape-and regional-scale automated radiotelemetry
    Bradley K. Woodworth, Greg W. Mitchell, D. Ryan Norris, Charles M. Francis, Philip D. Taylor
  81. 2014-07-01
    Inland flights of young red-eyed vireos Vireo olivaceus in relation to survival and habitat in a coastal stopover landscape
    Bradley K. Woodworth, Charles M. Francis, Philip D. Taylor
  82. 2018-04-25
    Automated telemetry reveals staging behavior in a declining migratory passerine
    James R. Wright, Luke L. Powell, Christopher M. Tonra
  83. 2025-08
    Movement Ecology of Migratory Birds Using Motus Technology
    Kaitlyn Young
  84. 2019-12
    GoMAMN Strategic Bird Monitoring Guidelines: Landbirds
    Theodore J. Zenzal Jr, William G. Vermillion, Jacqueline R. Ferrato, Lori A. Randall, Robert C. Dobbs, Heather Q. Baldwin
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