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Bird Migration

Physiology and Ecophysiology

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Eberhard Gwinner

    1. Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie Vogelwarte, Andechs, Germany

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Table of contents (27 papers)

  1. Physiological Adaptations to Migration

    1. Circannual Rhythms in Bird Migration: Control of Temporal Patterns and Interactions with Photoperiod

      • E. Gwinner
      Pages 257-268

    2. Genetics of Migration

      • P. Berthold
      Pages 269-280

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 423-435
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E. GWINNER! The phenomenon of bird migration with its large scale dimensions has attracted the attention of naturalists for centuries. Worldwide billions of birds leave their breeding grounds every autumn to migrate to areas with seasonally more favor­ able conditions. Many of these migrants travel only over a few hundred kilo­ meters but others cover distances equivalent to the circumference of the earth. Among these long-distance migrants are several billion birds that invade Africa every autumn from their West and Central Palaearctic breeding areas. In the Americas and in Asia the scope of bird migration is of a similar magnitude. Just as impressive as the numbers of birds are their achievements. They have to cope with the enormous energetic costs of long-distance flying. particularly while crossing oceans and deserts that do not allow replenishment of depleted fat reserves. They have to appropriately time the onset and end of migrations. both on a daily and annual basis. And finally. they have to orient their migratory movements in space to reach their species- or population-specific wintering and breeding grounds, irrespective of the variable climatic conditions along their migratory routes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensphysiologie Vogelwarte, Andechs, Germany

    Eberhard Gwinner

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bird Migration

  • Book Subtitle: Physiology and Ecophysiology

  • Editors: Eberhard Gwinner

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74542-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-74544-7Published: 13 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-74542-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 435

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Zoology

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