Navigation by extrapolation of geomagnetic cues in a migratory songbird (2021)
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Kishkinev, D., Packmor, F., Zechmeister, T., Winkler, H., Chernetsov, N., Mouritsen, H., & Holland, R. A. (2021). Navigation by extrapolation of geomagnetic cues in a migratory songbird. Current Biology, R330-R332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.051

Displacement experiments have demonstrated that experienced migratory birds translocated thousands of kilometers away from their migratory corridor to unfamiliar areas can orient towards and ultimately reach their intended destinations. This implies... Read More about Navigation by extrapolation of geomagnetic cues in a migratory songbird.

Effects of blood parasite infections on spatiotemporal migration patterns and activity budgets in a long-distance migratory passerine (2020)
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Emmenegger, T., Bensch, S., Hahn, S., Kishkinev, D., Procházka, P., Zehtindjiev, P., & Bauer, S. (2020). Effects of blood parasite infections on spatiotemporal migration patterns and activity budgets in a long-distance migratory passerine. Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7030

How blood parasite infections influence the migration of hosts remains a lively debated issue as past studies found negative, positive or no response to infections. This particularly applies to small birds, for which monitoring of detailed migration... Read More about Effects of blood parasite infections on spatiotemporal migration patterns and activity budgets in a long-distance migratory passerine.

Anosmic migrating songbirds demonstrate a compensatory response following long-distance translocation: a radio-tracking study (2019)
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Kishkinev, D., Anashina, A., Ishchenko, I., & Holland, R. A. (2019). Anosmic migrating songbirds demonstrate a compensatory response following long-distance translocation: a radio-tracking study. Journal of Ornithology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-019-01698-z

Several studies have shown that experienced night-migratory songbirds can determine their position, but it has remained a mystery which cues and sensory mechanisms they use, in particular, those used to determine longitude (east–west position). One p... Read More about Anosmic migrating songbirds demonstrate a compensatory response following long-distance translocation: a radio-tracking study.

Weak effects of geolocators on small birds: A meta-analysis controlled for phylogeny and publication bias. (2019)
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Brlík, V., Koleček, J., Burgess, M., Hahn, S., Humple, D., Krist, M., …Procházka, P. (2019). Weak effects of geolocators on small birds: A meta-analysis controlled for phylogeny and publication bias. Journal of Animal Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12962

Currently, the deployment of tracking devices is one of the most frequently used approaches to study movement ecology of birds. Recent miniaturization of light-level geolocators enabled studying small bird species whose migratory patterns were widely... Read More about Weak effects of geolocators on small birds: A meta-analysis controlled for phylogeny and publication bias..