The decision for a migratory animal to be site faithful in its non-breeding season has
profound implications for migratory connectivity, resilience to winter habitat loss and …

European farmland birds show massive large‐scale population declines due to agricultural
intensification. Long‐distance migrants are particularly affected as their populations appear …

Determining the links between breeding populations and the pressures, threats and
conditions they experience presents a challenge for the conservation of migratory birds …

Weather conditions have a significant impact on the life-history strategies of birds. The
mechanisms by which weather variability drives demographic processes in boreal …

Capsule Apparent survival rates of Whinchats breeding in abandoned fields differ in relation
to prior breeding success, probably indicating that site fidelity depends on prior nesting …

We determined breeding season habitat preferences for a declining migrant grassland bird,
the Whinchat Saxicola rubetra, using intensive, territory‐scale habitat and invertebrate data …

Co-occurence of related congeners is one of the most complicated ecological phenomena.
Although such species are characterised by niche conservatism, which should exclude their …

Populations of Afro‐Palearctic migrant birds have shown severe declines in recent decades.
To identify the causes of these declines, accurate measures of both demographic rates …

Capsule In a 461 km2 unenclosed upland landscape in south-west England, long-term
breeding Whinchat Saxicola rubetra persistence is more likely in areas characterized by a …

ABSTRACT Capsule Declines in Whinchat Saxicola rubetra breeding abundance in the UK
vary with habitat and other environmental conditions. Aims To test for associations between …