Barrier crossings and winds shape daily travel schedules and speeds of a flight generalist

Abstract External factors such as geography and weather strongly affect bird migration influencing daily travel schedules and flight speeds. For strictly thermal-soaring migrants, weather explains most seasonal and regional differences in speed. Flight generalists, which alternate between soaring an...

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Main Authors: Lina Lopez-Ricaurte, Wouter M. G. Vansteelant, Jesús Hernández-Pliego, Daniel García-Silveira, Ana Bermejo-Bermejo, Susana Casado, Jacopo G. Cecere, Javier de la Puente, Fernando Garcés-Toledano, Juan Martínez-Dalmau, Alfredo Ortega, Beatriz Rodríguez-Moreno, Diego Rubolini, Maurizio Sarà, Javier Bustamante
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91378-x