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Many migration studies use modern techniques combining radio transmitters with satellite tracking. The studies involve both very scare and quite common species and have recently uncovered a great deal of information regarding both routes and en route feeding and hidden wintering grounds etc. I was just reading an article extolling the virtues of "viz mig" otherwise known as visible migration. It really is a joy to see and can be a treat in an unlikely circumstance. last year, for example, I was waiting in a town centre in SE England whilst my wife shopped. Looking up (this was late september) I saw a few swallows passing south over the high street. 20 minutes later I was up to 800 - that afternoon others reported many thousands of swallows on the move. A joy to marvel at. Migration may not be spectacular and rarity oriented. watching your local patch at migration times brings the frisson of finding less common birds, or even just ones not common to the patch. A sudden influx of Scandinavian Robins can be as exciting as finding a true rarity. See individual countries for Bird Observatories. |
Bird Migration
by Dominic Couzens New Holland ?12.99See Fatbirder Review
ISBN: 184330970X
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Bird Migration - A General Survey
[Second Edition 2001] by Peter Berthold ? Translated by Hans-Gunther Bauer & Valerie Westhead ? OUPSee Fatbirder Review
ISBN: 0198507879
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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
by Scott Weidensaul Paperback 432 pages Henry Holt & Co 2000ISBN: 0865475911
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Songbird Journeys - Four seasons in the lives of migratory birds
by Miyuko Chu, Walker Books, 2006ISBN: 166397A
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The Migration Ecology of Birds
by Ian Newton Academic Press 2007 ISBN 9780125173674ISBN: 169548
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BTO - Birdtrack
WebsiteThe online bird recording scheme to increase the personal, local and national value of your sightings...
Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
WebsiteThe Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is dedicated to fostering greater understanding, appreciation, and protection of the grand phenomenon of bird migration...
Trektellen
WebsiteMigration counts and ringing records The Netherlands, Flanders and France...
700 - Bird Migrations
WebsiteNotes on bird migrations; especially in Southern Indiana
ARRCN Asian Raptor Migration WebPage
WebsiteThis web site is consisted by information of Asian raptor migration. Therfore, if you have some information on Asian raptor migration, please send me the data.We ask that the following raptor migration data be provided, at least.
Bird Migration Numbers
WebsiteOne of the best parts of birdwatching is bird migration. Watching the sun rise, hear and see the birds fly over. The only things you need is a chair to sit on, binoculars and coffee. The purpose of this activity: It`s nice to do; The purpose of this site: to give you an idea of how many of what birds migrate when and how much can you see of it on an arbitrary location in the Netherlands.
Bird Monitoring in North America
WebsiteThe monitoring programs highlighted on these pages can be used to track changes in North American bird populations. These trends give conservationists, managers, citizens, and policy makers a window into the natural world and the health of environment. The patterns of increase and decrease are quantifications that can be tested against and compared to the subjective feelings we have on the status of birds in North America. Are more species increasing than decreasing? Are Eastern Bluebirds doing well or poorly? What do we know about shorebirds? Learn about these programs, use their data, participate in the counts, and write about the changes.
Birds of Prey
WebsiteI'm most familiar with the migrations of Broad-winged Hawks, Mississippi Kites, and Red-tailed Hawks over the central and western Gulf Coast United States. The most exciting experience I've had was at Hazel Bazemore County Park in Corpus Christi, Texas, where tens of thousands of Broad-winged Hawks are visible in late September. If you spend a week or so there between the 19th and 28th of the month, I'll guarantee you'll be amazed at what you'll see.
BirdTrack
WebsiteBirdTrack is an exciting project, through a partnership between the BTO, the RSPB, Birdwatch Ireland and the Scottish Ornithologists' Club, that looks at migration movements and distributions of birds throughout Britain and Ireland. BirdTrack provides facilities for observers to store and manage their own personal records as well as using these to support species conservation at local, regional, national and international scales...
Convention on Migratory Species
Website... Conservation and effective management of migratory species of wild animals require the concerted action of all States within the national jurisdictional boundaries of which such species spend any part of their life cycle...
Hawk Migration Network of Japan
WebsiteHawk Migration Monitoring Throughout Japan - including Links to other Hawk Migration websites in Japan and beyond.
Journey North
WebsiteOver 4,500 schools, representing more than 250,000 students, participated in the Spring, 2000 Journey North Program. These students are from all 50 U.S. States and 7 Canadian Provinces...
Lesser Golden Plover Migration
WebsiteShorebirds, like most of our waterfowl, nest on th arctic tundra and migrate to southern wintering grounds. Yet unlike waterfowl, many shorebirds -- sandpipers, plovers, godwits, curlews --- migrate beyond the confines of the North American continent...
Light Pollution - Artificial lighting and ecology
WebsitePopulations of our most nocturnal owl species are declining whereas the least nocturnal species are increasing.
Light Pollution - Bad Lighting
WebsiteLinks to information on how poor lighting effects animals and especially migrating birds.
Light Pollution - Bird Migration Friendly Lighting
WebsiteWhether you call it Cut Off Lighting, Friendly Lighting, or Good Neighbor Lighting, it's common sense to choose lighting fixtures that cut glare, reduce sky glow and eliminate wasted energy dollars. Many communities are passing legislation to enforce environmentally sound outdoor lighting practices, but you don't need legislation to use courtesy and common sense when buying and installing light fixtures.
Light Pollution - FLAP [Fatal Light Awareness Program]
WebsiteWhat to with night light to prevent migration casualties.
Maps & Distribution of the Birds of the Western Palearctic Region
WebsiteMaps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region by Alberto Masi
Migration Information
WebsiteOne of the best parts of birdwatching is bird migration. Watching the sun rise and see the birds fly over...
Migrations
WebsiteMigration is not just something we observe in birds but part of our own nature…
Olympic Vulture Study
WebsiteThe Olympic Vulture Study site is dedicated to the turkey vulture migration in the Pacific Northwest (U.S.); specifically between Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada and the northern Olympic coast of Washington state. The text tells about the study and gives a chart showing raptor migration across the Strait of Juan de Fuca for the past eight years. There are links to other vulture sites, and to the park where the study takes place. This fall will be the ninth year of the study.
Operation Migration
WebsiteA new generation of Whooping crane chicks has hatched and are currently in training...
Satellite Tracking of Endangered Birds
WebsiteThe Patuxent Wildlife Research Centre, and the Direct Readout group of the Applied Information Sciences Branch (Code 935) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre are working together on a project to monitor the migration routes of several endangered species using satellite tracking
Shorebird Migration
WebsiteEssay
Shorebird Migration Tracking
WebsiteShorebirds - the sandpipers and plovers - have something in common: long slender wings perfectly adapted for flights of incredible distance. Some shorebirds fly over a hundred thousand miles in their lifetime!
Telpost Breskens
WebsiteThis site contains recent counts of Viz-Mig at Breskens in the southwest of the Netherlands. Now in it`s twenty-first year the group is as fanatical as ever to man the post as often and as long as possible.
Tracking Snowgeese
WebsiteTracking the Spring Migration of Snow Geese from the Desert to the Tundra using Satellite Radio Telemetry...
Whoopers Happening
WebsiteBack on November 20th, the Whooping crane chicks were released to fly out on their own and get some exercise, after being in their travel pen for days due to rain and poor weather. But only 4 birds returned, while the other 16 kept going, actually heading south on their own! This was a first, and has never happened before in the 9 years Operation Migration has led Whooping crane chicks from Wisconsin to Florida. Was it instinctive or just coincidence? Both Joe and Beverly explain what actually happened and why...
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