Avian influenza (AI) is an important disease that has significant implications for animal and
human health. High pathogenicity AI (HPAI) has emerged in consecutive seasons within the …

Radar is an effective tool for continuous monitoring and quantification of aerial bird
movement and used to study migration and local flight behaviour. However, systems with …

Migrating birds flexibly adjust their individual migratory decisions, ie departing, routing and
landing, based on intrinsic (eg energy stores) and extrinsic (eg landscape features and …

Flying over the open sea is energetically costly for terrestrial birds. Despite this, over-water
journeys of many birds, sometimes hundreds of kilometres long, are uncovered by bio …

Accurate predictions of the abundance of migrating birds are important to avoid aerial
conflicts of birds, for example, with aviation or wind power installations. Here we develop a …

Migratory birds may need to cross barriers such as seas, without opportunities to rest or
refuel. Waterbirds, unlike land birds, can stop at sea to rest or wait for better winds and thus …

How animals navigate across the ocean to isolated targets remains perplexing greater than
150 years since this question was considered by Charles Darwin. To help solve this long …

The southern North Sea is part of an important flyway for nocturnal bird migration, but is also
risky as it stretches over a large surface of water. Selecting nights with suitable weather …

Understanding the phenology of migration is fundamental to management of migratory
gamebirds, in part because of the role migratory timing plays in setting harvest regulations …

Simple Summary This investigation describes the intricate anatomy of the central nervous
system (CNS) and its related structures in Cory's shearwater, employing anatomical cross …