Avian Migration

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Evolution of Migration, Genetics and Related Behavioural Aspects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Evolution of Bird Migration: A Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Perspective

      • Andreas J. Helbig

      Pages 3-20

   3. Recent Changes in Migratory Behaviour of Birds: A Compilation of Field Observations and Ringing Data

      • Wolfgang Fiedler

      Pages 21-38

   4. Ecology and Evolution of Hummingbird Population Movements and Migration

      • John H. Rappole, Karl-L. Schuchmann

      Pages 39-51

   5. Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Migratory Behaviour

      • Francisco Pulido, Peter Berthold

      Pages 53-77

3. Physiology and Ecophysiology of Migration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Circannual and Circadian Contributions to the Timing of Avian Migration

      • Eberhard Gwinner, Barbara Helm

      Pages 81-95

   3. Migratory Behavior: New Insights from Captive Studies

      • Marilyn Ramenofsky, Renée Agatsuma, Melissa Barga, Rebecca Cameron, Jessica Harm, Meta Landys et al.

      Pages 97-111

   4. Avian Migration: Regulation of Facultative-Type Movements

      • John C. Wingfield

      Pages 113-125

   5. Behavioural and Hormonal Dynamics in a Partial Migrant — the Willow Tit

      • Bengt Silverin

      Pages 127-140

   6. Life-History and Ecophysiological Adaptations to Migration in Australian Birds

      • Ursula Munro

      Pages 141-154

   7. Behavioural and Physiological Reactions to Environmental Variation in Bird Migration: a Review

      • Lukas Jenni, Michael Schaub

      Pages 155-171

4. Morphological Adaptations, Moult, Patterns of Migration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. Morphological Consequences of Migration in Passerines

      • Bernd Leisler, Hans Winkler

      Pages 175-186

   3. Within Ten Feathers: Primary Moult Strategies of Migratory Waders (Charadrii)

      • L. G. Underhill

      Pages 187-197

   4. Optimizing Migration in a Reluctant and Inefficient Flier: The Eared Grebe

      • J. R. Jehl Jr., A. E. Henry, H. I. Ellis

      Pages 199-209

   5. Geographical Patterns in Bird Migration

      • Ian Newton

      Pages 211-224

   6. Nocturnal Migration of Passerines in the Desert-Highland Zone of Western Central Asia: Selected Aspects

      • Casimir V. Bolshakov

      Pages 225-236

   7. Relationships Between Migration and Breeding Strategies in Arctic Breeding Birds

      • Marcel Klaassen

      Pages 237-249

P. Berthold and E. Gwinnd Bird migration is an intriguing aspect of the living world - so much so that it has been investigated for as long, and as thoroughly, as almost any other natural phenomenon. Aristotle, who can count as the founder of scientific ornithology, paid very close attention to the migrations of the birds he ob­ served, but it was not until the reign of Friedrich II, in the first half of the 13th century, that reliable data began to be obtained. From then on, the data­ base grew rapidly. Systematic studies of bird migration were introduced when the Vogelwarte Rossitten was founded, as the first ornithological­ biological observation station in the world (see first chapter "In Memory of Vogelwarte Rossitten"). This area later received enormous impetus when ex­ perimental research on the subject was begun: the large-scale bird-ringing experiment initiated in Rossitten in 1903 by Johannes Thienemann (who was inspired by the pioneering studies of C. C. M. Mortensen), the experiments on photoperiodicity carried out by William Rowan in the 1920s in Canada and retention and release experiments performed by Thienemann in the 1930s in Rossitten, the first experimental study on the orientation of migratory birds. After the Second World War, migration research, while continuing in the previous areas, also expanded into new directions such as radar ornithology, ecophysiology and hormonal control mechanisms, studies of evolution, ge­ netics, telemetry and others.

• Orientierung
• Radarverfolgung
• Vogel
• Vogelzug
• avian migration
• bird migration
• ecology
• migration
• physiology
• radar tracking
• Model vertebrates

• Max-Planck-Forschungsstelle für Ornithologie, Vogelwarte Radolfzell Schloss Moeggingen, Radolfzell, Germany

  Peter Berthold, Edith Sonnenschein

• Max-Planck-Forschungsstelle für Ornithologie, Abteilung Biologische Rhytmen und Verhalten, Andechs, Germany

  Eberhard Gwinner

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