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This monograph is the first attempt to summarize and critically review the vast literature on stopover ecology and behaviour of songbirds
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Most birds cannot cover the distance between their breeding and winter quarters in one hop. They have to make multiple flights alternated with stopovers. Which factors govern the birds’ decisions to stop, to stop for how long, when to resume flight? What is better – to accumulate much fuel and to make long flights for many hundreds of kilometres, or to travel in small steps? Is it necessary to find habitats similar to the breeding ones or other habitats would do? Are long migratory flights indeed so costly energetically as usually assumed? This monograph summarizes our current knowledge on the ecology of songbird migrants during migratory stopovers and on their behaviour.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Passerine Migration
Book Subtitle: Stopovers and Flight
Authors: Nikita Chernetsov
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29020-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-29019-0Published: 19 April 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43328-3Published: 09 May 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-29020-6Published: 18 April 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 184
Topics: Animal Ecology, Behavioral Sciences, Zoology