Nutritional Adaptations in Migrating Birdsdoi:10.1080/00212210.1995.10688805Franz BairleinD Simons
Migrating for a MealFor all birds, one of the main driving forces behind migration is food shortage. If all birds were to stay in the same warm regions all the year round, food would become lacking and producing their young would be less successful. As food resources are rich in the ...
We’re learning more about what they endure as they fly thousands of miles—and how humans and climate change are making it tougher for them.
Accelerometer measurements combined with location data will be even more valuable when evaluating the annual scheme of a migrating passerine. Devices combining GPS and accelerometer have been developed (e.g. Bouten et al.2013) but these are far too heavy for use on songbirds. GPS is currently di...
For example, commuting/migrating birds may be less reliant on visual information of what lies immediately ahead since they could be relying upon geomagnetic cues, while foraging birds may have their attention focused on the surface below rather than what lies ahead (Martin, 2017a). No matter ...
A migrating bird, for example, flaps more rapidly at the beginning of a migration than at the end (as its mass declines [66]). However, wing area and span correlate with body mass when compared across species [110], which means larger bird species do tend to fla...
Nutritional adaptations in migrating birds - Bairlein, Simons - 1995 () Citation Context ... provide crucial functions in animals as diverse as invertebrate worms (C. elegans)[1], insects including fruit flies (D. melanogaster)[2], bony fish [3], toads (Bufo species), lizards [4], and...
Migrating for a MealFor all birds, one of the main driving forces behind migration is food shortage. If all birds were to stay in the same warm regions all the year round, food would become lacking and producing their young would be less successful. As food resources are rich in the ...
Migrating for a MealFor all birds, one of the main driving forces behind migration is food shortage. If all birds were to stay in the same warm regions all the year round, food would become lacking and producing their young would be less successful. As food resources are rich in the ...