Avian ecology and behavior

The paper describes a collaborative effort to integrate shorebird tracking data for conservation, showing how shared data can support conservation actions.

This study shows that great tit nestlings experience different impacts from extreme climate events depending on their developmental stage, with cold events early on and rain events later having the strongest effects.

The paper develops a typology of Australian terrestrial bird communities using co-occurrence data and expert consultation, identifying 29 distinct communities and their distributions.

This study uses GPS-accelerometry data to classify behaviors in storm-petrels, finding improved detection of resting behavior compared to GPS-only methods.

The paper conducts full-season spring migration surveys near Batumi, Georgia, revealing seasonal contrasts in raptor migration patterns through the eastern Black Sea flyway.

The paper examines how mowing timing affects Whinchat breeding success in Ireland, finding that while early mowing impacts productivity, other factors also influence reproductive outcomes.

The paper introduces a video fusion method to detect common swift nests in buildings, revealing 78 nests and leading to 212 nestboxes installation during building renovations.

This study shows urban blue spaces increase bird species richness and functional diversity, supporting more conservation-listed species than green spaces during summer.

The paper tracks myrtle warbler migration using geolocators and isotopes, finding most birds migrate to the southeastern U.S., not the Pacific Coast as previously hypothesized.

The study examines how wing morphology and plumage color influence crossing strategies of ecological barriers in migratory birds, finding differences in flight altitude across barrier types and traits affecting flight behavior.

This study examines dietary shifts in urban birds, finding species-specific changes in diet diversity and prey consumption linked to urbanisation and habitat type.

This study compares movement strategies of hummingbirds and flowerpiercers in high-Andean ecosystems, finding greater movement diversity in hummingbirds and flexibility in daily behaviors.

This study tracks snow petrel foraging ranges to better interpret stomach-oil deposits as paleoclimate proxies, finding that foraging areas vary seasonally and by breeding stage.

This study tracks Common Cranes migrating from western India to Siberia, revealing seasonal detours and bottlenecks in their migration routes.

The paper examines how the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau altered avian migration patterns by shifting directions from latitudinal to longitudinal due to monsoon systems.

The paper examines how climate and land-use/land-cover changes interact to affect bird communities in the U.S., finding complex effects on species richness and abundance.

This study tracks natal dispersal and recruitment in European honey buzzards, finding that individuals gradually reduce their ranging areas and increase time spent on breeding grounds as they gain experience.

This study quantifies post-fledging parental care in Eurasian spoonbills, showing it ends before migration and varies with chick age and parent-chick interactions.

This study examines how bird community metrics relate to vegetation and air pollution at multiple spatial scales in an urban neighborhood, finding positive associations with greenness and negative associations with air pollution.

The paper examines natal philopatry and dispersal in Arctic Terns, finding sex-specific differences in dispersal and breeding age.

The paper examines spatial age structure in a wild bird population and finds little spatial age structure compared to territory quality and reproductive structure.

This study examines the spatiotemporal structure of the annual cycle in migratory birds, showing migratory periods are consistent across species and breeding/nonbreeding time is inversely related to migration distance.

Magellanic penguins adjust their navigation strategies to balance energy efficiency and foraging opportunities in response to tidal currents.

The paper estimates local extinction risk using community science data, showing that eBird data can reliably track population persistence trends comparable to standardized monitoring.

This paper reviews avian predator-prey dynamics in Antarctica, identifies research gaps, and recommends future studies on how these relationships interact with climate change along the Western Antarctic Peninsula.

This paper presents a methodology to assess bird species status in India using semi-structured citizen science data, finding declines in 204 species long-term and 142 species currently.

The paper shows acoustic indices can predict recovery of tropical bird communities, including taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic composition, using audio recordings and Hill numbers analysis.

This study tracks shifts in Hudsonian godwit migration timing and finds a rapid 6-day delay with no sex differences, suggesting non-adaptive responses to climate change.

This study uses fine-scale movement data from Bermuda petrels to reveal surface foraging and nocturnal flight behaviors, providing insights into their foraging strategies and activity patterns.

This study shows that global bird diversity conservation needs both threat reduction and targeted recovery programs to prevent extinctions and functional diversity loss.