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A Migratory Bird’s Journey from the Andes of Colombia to North America: leave early and take it easy or leave late and migrate fast?

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This blog post is provided by Ana M. González and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Earlier and slower or later and faster: Spring migration pace linked to departure time […]

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Light‐Level Geolocator Analyses: A user’s guide

January 14, 2020by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

In the biologging Special Issue of the journal, we have new ‘How to…’ paper lead by Simeon Lisovski from the Swiss Ornithological Institute on Light‐Level Geolocator Analyses. In this blog […]

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Stopovers for sickly songbirds

September 8, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

The understanding of the interplay of movement, behaviour and physiology that biologging offers has applied relevance for a range of fields, including evolutionary ecology, wildlife conservation and behavioural ecology. In […]

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Divergent Migration in Lake Sturgeon

February 13, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Studying aquatic animals has never been easy. Hidden from view beneath the water surface, they can be hard to find let-alone study in terms of their long-range movements. A recent paper […]

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How does infection alter animal migration performance? It’s complicated.

January 30, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Animals move around. A lot. Migratory animals are widely assumed to play an important role in the long-distance dispersal of parasites and pathogens. But how does this affect the migratory […]

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European Honey Buzzards Pernis apivorus soaring in the wind.

Drifting birds of prey use predictable winds during migration

October 19, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

This post is a press release from the authors of Journal of Animal Ecology paper “Seasonal detours by soaring migrants shaped by wind regimes along the East Atlantic Flyway” by Wouter M. […]

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Salmon smolts find safety in numbers

May 9, 2016by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

This post is a press release from the authors of Journal of Animal Ecology paper “Predator swamping reduces predation risk during nocturnal migration of juvenile salmon in a high-mortality landscape” by […]

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Accurate timing of migration prolongs life expectancy in pike

September 28, 2015by Simon Hoggart Leave a comment

This blog post is a press release from the authors of the Journal of Animal Ecology paper “Causes and consequences of repeatability, flexibility and individual fine-tuning of migratory timing in pike” […]

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