Passerine Migration - Stopovers and Flight

Most birds cannot cover the distance between their breeding and winter quarters in one hop. They have to make multiple flights alternated with stopovers. Which factors govern the birds' decisions to stop, to stop for how long, when to resume flight? What is better - to accumulate much fuel and to make long flights for many hundreds of kilometres, or to travel in small steps? Is it necessary to find habitats similar to the breeding ones or other habitats would do? Are long migratory flights indeed so costly energetically as usually assumed? This monograph summarizes our current knowledge on the ecology of songbird migrants during migratory stopovers and on their behaviour.

List of contents

Introduction.- Stopover duration.- Fuel deposition rate and energy efficiency of stopovers.- Optimal migration theory.-
Habitat selection and use by passerine migrants.- Spatial behaviour at stopovers.- Temporal pattern and energy cost of migratory flight.- Migratory flights and stopovers: organisation of migration.

Summary

Most birds cannot cover the distance between their breeding and winter quarters in one hop. They have to make multiple flights alternated with stopovers. Which factors govern the birds’ decisions to stop, to stop for how long, when to resume flight? What is better – to accumulate much fuel and to make long flights for many hundreds of kilometres, or to travel in small steps? Is it necessary to find habitats similar to the breeding ones or other habitats would do? Are long migratory flights indeed so costly energetically as usually assumed? This monograph summarizes our current knowledge on the ecology of songbird migrants during migratory stopovers and on their behaviour.

Product details

• Authors: Nikita Chernetsov
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Original title: Passerine Migration: Stopovers and Flight.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2012
• EAN: 9783642290190
• ISBN: 978-3-642-29019-0
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 17 mm x 245 mm
• Weight: 434 g
• Illustrations: XII, 184 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; B, Ecology, Zoology & animal sciences, Neurosciences, Behavioral Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Animal Ecology, Zoology, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory, Behavioral Genetics, Zoology and animal sciences, Bird Migration;Passerine;Stopover and Flight