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Watching migrations from home In the time of the pandemic, when most field biologists are working from their desks instead of out studying birds, the…

Migrations and swimming capabilities of endangered pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) to guide passage designs in the fragmented Yellowstone River A new tracking study of endangered…

Hybrid songbirds employ intermediate routes in a migratory divide Kira E. Delmore and Darren E. Irwin published a paper this week in Ecology Letters. They…

Carry-over effects from passage regions are more important than breeding climate in determining the breeding phenology and performance of three avian migrants of conservation concern…

Check out this new paper by Paxton et al. on carry-over effects from winter to the migratory period. “We use a long-term dataset and provide…

The serial residency hypothesis: evidence for large-scale stochastic juvenile site selection followed by adult site fidelity Check out this new review and theoretical paper. “Cresswell…

Every spring, approximately 100 black-crowned night herons show up at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo to initiate breeding –right here in our own back yard. Although…

Check out these new connectivity maps! They’re part of a project between the Smithsonian’s Migratory Bird Center and the Department of Defense. A lot of…

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