The ongoing mysteries of Mountain Plover migration
In 2015, we fitted fourteen Mountain Plovers with ~2g GPS loggers with hopes that they would provide clues…
Spring break in Mexico, Mountain Plover style
by Allison K. Pierce, Graduate Student at University of Colorado Denver
With just two weeks notice, I was…
Any job working with birds guarantees you strange working hours. For most bird biologists, work starts before sunrise because most birds start singing at dawn.…
This summer the Migratory Connectivity Project and Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center joined forces with Erin Bayne’s lab at the University of Alberta in Edmonton to…
Mountain ranges with peaks reaching 14,000 feet elevation surround the expansive short grass prairie of South Park, Colorado. At an average elevation of 9,000 feet,…
Figure 4. The most probable spring migration routes (lines) and 95% confidence intervals (shaded area) of Ovenbirds (n = 43) captured at five locations across…
Delmore and Irwin 2014 Figure
Hybrid songbirds employ intermediate routes in a migratory divide
Kira E. Delmore and Darren E. Irwin published a paper this…
Relationship between westerly wind speed during migration and apparent annual survival of yellow warblers (see Figure 2 from Drake et al. 2014 for details).
Wind…