Migration routes of birds throw light on orientation performance at different geographic
scales, over distances ranging from a few kilometres to more than 104 km. Detailed …

Marine mammals utilize marine resources throughout the world's oceans, but the location of
food is often spatially and temporally separated from environments that are required for …

Sea turtles are known to perform long‐distance, oceanic migrations between disparate
feeding areas and breeding sites, some of them located on isolated oceanic islands. These …

Understanding the biology, constraints of migration, and the yearly movement patterns of
birds is essential to conserving them, particularly in the case of long-distant migrant …

Determining the time of day that animals initiate and end migration, as well as variation in
diel movement patterns during migration, provides insights into the types of strategy used to …

Many shallow-water organisms are subjected to regular, frequent and considerable changes
in their environment imposed by the tides. Such changes range from complex alterations in …

Migratory animals capable of navigating to a specific destination, and of compensating for
an artificial displacement into unfamiliar territory, are thought to have a compass for …

Timing is crucial for animals for optimizing foraging, travelling and breeding behaviours in
spatiotemporally heterogeneous environments. Some seabirds, commuting between land …

The advancing development of tracking techniques has led to fascinating new insights into
avian migration, documenting the immense diversity, complexity, and flexibility of this …

Although there is a consensus about the evolutionary drivers of animal migration,
considerable work is necessary to identify the mechanisms that underlie the great variety of …