Avian Migration Book

	Evolution of Bird Migration: A Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Perspective	3
	Recent Changes in Migratory Behaviour of Birds: A Compilation of Field Observations and Ringing Data	21
	Ecology and Evolution of Hummingbird Population Movements and Migration	39
	Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Migratory Behaviour	53
	Circannual and Circadian Contributions to the Timing of Avian Migration	81
	Migratory Behavior: New Insights from Captive Studies	97
	Avian Migration: Regulation of Facultative-Type Movements	113
	Behavioural and Hormonal Dynamics in a Partial Migrant - the Willow Tit	127
	Life History and Ecophysiological Adaptations to Migration in Australian Birds	141
	Behavioural and Physiological Reactions to Environmental Variation in Bird Migration: A Review	155
	Morphological Consequences of Migration in Passerines	175
	Within Ten Feathers: Primary Moult Strategies of Migratory Waders (Charadrii)	187
	Optimizing Migration in a Reluctant and Inefficient Flier: The Eared Grebe	199
	Geographical Patterns in Bird Migration	211
	Nocturnal Migration of Passerines in the Desert-Highland Zone of Western Central Asia: Selected Aspects	225
	Relationships Between Migration and Breeding Strategies in Arctic Breeding Birds	237
	Bird Migration Speed	253
	Energetic Savings by Organ Adjustment During Long Migratory Flights in Garden Warblers (Sylvia borin)	269
	Priority Access to Food in Migratory Birds: Age, Sex and Motivational Asymmetries	281
	Interdependence of Flight and Stopover in Migrating Birds: Possible Effects of Metabolic Constraints During Refuelling on Flight Metabolism	293
	Fuel Deposition Rates in Migrating Birds: Causes, Constraints and Consequences	307
	Nutritional Strategies in Migratory Birds	321
	Using a Network of WSR-88D Weather Surveillance Radars to Define Patterns of Bird Migration at Large Spatial Scales	335
	The Radar Window to Bird Migration	347
	Snowy Owl Movements: Variation on the Migration Theme	359
	Orientation in "Featureless" Environments: The Extreme Case of Pelagic Birds	367
	Making Migratory Connections with Stable Isotopes	379
	Individual Variability in Experiments with Emlen Funnels	393
	Conservation of Migratory Birds	407
	Magnetic Navigation by an Avian Migrant?	423
	Mechanisms of Orientation and Navigation in Migratory Birds	43ä
	Migratory Systems as Adaptive Responses to Spatial and Temporal Variability in Orientation Stimuli	45ä
	Avian Long-Distance Navigation: Experiments with Migratory Birds	47ä
	Spatiotemporal Orientation Strategies of Long-Distance Migrants	49ä
	Stored Fat and the Migratory Orientation of Birds	515
	Chasing a Wild Goose: Posthatch Growth of Locomotor Muscles and Behavioural Physiology of Migration of an Arctic Goose	527
	The Drag Paradox: Measurements of Flight Performance and Body Drag in Flying Birds	543
	Twenty-Three Testable Predictions About Bird Flight	563
	Bird Migration as an Interdisciplinary Tool for Global Cooperation	585
	References	599
	Subject index	601
	Common and scientific names of birds and animals	609