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Title Author Publication Date Publisher
  1. 2024
    First Visual Record of a Hoary Bat (Lasiurus cinereus) over the Open Ocean
    William L. Kennerley, Lisa T. Ballance, Rachael A. Orben, Leigh G. Torres, Donald I. Solick
    Ecological barrier Industrial development Journal of North American Bat Research Notes
  2. 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
  3. 2022-05
    Fall Migratory Behaviour and Cross-Seasonal Interactions in Semipalmated Plovers (Charadrius semipalmatus) Breeding in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada
    Marley Aikens
  4. 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
  5. 2021-04-02
    Factors Influencing Stopover and Movement of Migratory Songbirds within the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge
    Jessica Tatten
  6. 2021-11-15
    Exploring the Strategies of First Migration in the Subarctic-Nesting Shorebird, Calidris Alpina Hudsonia
    Victor Olek
  7. 2022-05-01
    Experimental ghrelin administration affects migratory behaviour in a songbird
    Sara Lupi, Yolanda E. Morbey, Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton, Hiroyuki Kaiya, Leonida Fusani, Christopher G. Guglielmo
  8. 2016-11-23
    Experienced migratory songbirds do not display goal-ward orientation after release following a cross-continental displacement: an automated telemetry study
    Dmitry Kishkinev, Dominik Heyers, Bradley K. Woodworth, Greg W. Mitchell, Keith A. Hobson, D. Ryan Norris
  9. 2025-05
    Examining the Predictors of White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) Spring Departure Date
    Josh Davidson
  10. 2024-10-08
    Examining Environmental and Life History Correlates of Winter and Migratory Movements in a Nomadic Arctic-Breeding Passerine
    Samuelle Simard-Provençal
  11. 2023-12-06
    Evidence of differing staging strategies between adult and juvenile Semipalmated Sandpipers highlights the importance of small staging sites in Atlantic Canada
    Rebeca C Linhart, Diana J Hamilton, Julie Paquet, Cheri L Gratto-Trevor
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 2021-12
    Endogenous and Exogenous Factors Influencing the Movement and Migratory Behaviors of a Wintering Songbird
    Bryant Dossman
  16. 2023-06-22
    Elevational differences in migration phenology of Lazuli Buntings do not support selection-based hypotheses for protandry
    Kim Savides, Clark S Rushing
  17. 2025-07-09
    Effects of severe weather on shorebirds: Evidence of disrupted refueling and delayed departure on southbound migration
    Sophia M. Fraser, Devin R. De Zwaan, Hilary A. R. Mann, Julie Paquet, Diana J. Hamilton
  18. 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
  19. 2017-03
    Effects of Extreme Tidal Events on Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla) Migratory Stopover in the Bay of Fundy, Canada
    Hilary A. R. Mann, Diana J. Hamilton, Julie M. Paquet, Cheri L. Gratto-Trevor, Sarah G. Neima
  20. 2022-01-25
    Effects of Experimental Malaria Infection On Migration of Yellow-rumped Warblers (Setophaga coronata)
    Rebecca Howe
  21. 2024-04-23
    Ecological drivers of songbird stopover behaviour during migration in eastern New Brunswick
    Andrew T. Beauchamp
  22. 2020-09-29
    Earlier and slower or later and faster: Spring migration pace linked to departure time in a Neotropical migrant songbird
    Ana M. González, Nicholas J. Bayly, Keith A. Hobson
  23. 2021-10-16
    Drought at a coastal wetland affects refuelling and migration strategies of shorebirds
    Alexandra M. Anderson, Christian Friis, Cheri L. Gratto-Trevor, Christopher M. Harris, Oliver P. Love, R. I. Guy Morrison, Sean W. J. Prosser, Erica Nol, Paul A. Smith
  24. 2022-03-18
    Drivers and Direct Impacts of Lean Mass Dynamics on the Stopover Ecology and Migratory Pace of Nearctic-Neotropical Migrant Songbirds in Spring
    Mariamar Gutierrez Ramirez
  25. 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
  26. 2022-02-02
    Does hatch date set the clock? Timing of post-fledging movements for families of a colonially breeding, long-distance migratory songbird
    Saeedeh Bani Assadi, Emily A. McKinnon, Edward D. Cheskey, Kevin C. Fraser
  27. 2022-09-23
    Do departure and flight route decisions correlate with immune parameters in migratory songbirds?
    Vera Brust, Cas Eikenaar, Florian Packmor, Heiko Schmaljohann, Ommo Hüppop, Gábor Á. Czirják
  28. 2020-05-20
    Diurnal and crepuscular activity during fall migration for four species of aerial foragers
    Tara L. Imlay, Philip D. Taylor
    Migratory phenology The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
  29. 2023-11-10
    Differential Migration Timing and the Form and Function of Avian Wings
    Jessica E. Deakin
  30. 2016-01-21
    Differential fall migratory routes of adult and juvenile Ipswich Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis princeps)
    Zoe J. Crysler, Robert A. Ronconi, Philip D. Taylor
  31. 2020-09-15
    Differences in Migration Timing along the Midcontinental Flyway in Sanderling (Calidris alba) from Three Gulf of Mexico Staging Areas
    Kristin Bianchini, David J. Newstead, Christy A. Morrissey
  32. 2024-02-22
    Determinants of spring migration departure dates in a New World sparrow: Weather variables reign supreme
    Allison J. Byrd, Katherine M. Talbott, Tara M. Smiley, Taylor B. Verrett, Michael S. Gross, Michelle L. Hladik, Ellen D. Ketterson, Daniel J. Becker
  33. 2022-10-17
    Depleted lean body mass after crossing an ecological barrier differentially affects stopover duration and refueling rate among species of long-distance migratory birds
    Mariamar Gutierrez Ramirez, Michael S. Griego, Joely G. DeSimone, Cory R. Elowe, Alexander R. Gerson
  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. 2017-01-11
    Corticosterone and timing of migratory departure in a songbird
    Cas Eikenaar, Florian Müller, Clara Leutgeb, Sven Hessler, Konstantin Lebus, Philip D. Taylor, Heiko Schmaljohann
  36. 2019-10-16
    Contrasting patterns of post-fledging movements of two sympatric warbler species with different life-history strategies
    Dominic A. Cormier, Philip D. Taylor
  37. 2019
    Comprendre la stratégie migratoire de trois espèces de grives du genre Catharus à l'aide d'un réseau innovateur de radio-télémétrie
    Camille Bégin Marchand
  38. 2020-02-13
    Comparing fall migration of three Catharus species using a radio-telemetry network
    Camille Bégin-Marchand, André Desrochers, Junior A. Tremblay, Pascal Côté
  39. 2024-05
    Coastal and offshore movements of Nathusius' pipistrelle during autumn migration
    Sander Lagerveld, Pepijn de Vries, Bart Noort, Karina Stienstra, Cor Sonneveld, Tamara Vallina, Martijn Keur, Josien Steenbergen
  40. 2023
    Clapper rail demography and population genomics
    Elisa Constancia Elizondo
  41. 2023
    British Islands Bats
    Bat Conservation Trust
  42. 2025-07-17
    Breeding site departure and post-departure movement strategy in Vireo olivaceus (Red-eyed Vireo)
    Lisa C Horn, Paul A Callo, Bridget J M Stutchbury
  43. 2023-07-01
    Breeding season management is unlikely to improve population viability of a data-deficient migratory species in decline
    Kayla L. Davis, Sarah P. Saunders, Stephanie Beilke, Erin Rowan Ford, Jennifer Fuller, Ava Landgraf, Elise F. Zipkin
  44. 2023-07-14
    Breeding season forest fragment size does not create negative carry-over for adult Wood Thrushes on fall migration timing or apparent annual survival
    Brendan P Boyd, Sue Hayes, Alexandra M Israel, Bridget J M Stutchbury
  45. 2015-03-03
    Breeding ground dispersal and fall migratory movements of Ipswich Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis princeps)
    Zoe Crysler
  46. 2022-11-25
    Body mass and triglycerides predict departure of free-living nomadic pine siskins
    Joely G. DeSimone, Beverly S. Domschot, Megan A. Fylling, William M. Blake, Creagh W. Breuner
  47. 2017-11-15
    Body condition explains migratory performance of a long-distance migrant
    Sjoerd Duijns, Lawrence J. Niles, Amanda Dey, Yves Aubry, Christian Friis, Stephanie Koch, Alexandra M. Anderson, Paul A. Smith
  48. 2017-08
    Behavioural Mechanisms of Protandrous Spring Migration in a Nearctic-Neotropical Songbird
    Jessica E. Deakin
  49. 2018-10-24
    Bayesian state-space models reveal unobserved off-shore nocturnal migration from Motus data
    Justin W. Baldwin, Katie Leap, John T. Finn, Jennifer R. Smetzer
  50. 2014-12-31
    Bats on a Budget: Torpor-Assisted Migration Saves Time and Energy
    Liam P. McGuire, Kristin A. Jonasson, Christopher G. Guglielmo, Paul A. Bartell

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