The Migration Ecology of Birds. Edition No. 2

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Methodology

Part 1. The Migratory Process 3. Migratory flight 4. Weather effects and other aspects 5. Fueling the flights 6. Incredible journeys 7. Raptors and other soaring birds 8. Migration speed, stopovers and duration of journeys 9. Finding the way 10. Vagrancy

Part 2. The timing and control of migration 11. Annual cycles 12. Control mechanisms

Part 3. Large scale movement patterns 13. Geographical patterns 14. Seasonal occupation of breeding areas 15. Sex and age differences in migration 16. Variations on a migratory theme 17. Site fidelity and dispersal 18. Irruptive migrations: boreal seed-eaters 19. Irruptive migrations: owls, raptors and waterfowl

Part 4. Evolution of movement patterns 20. Evolutionary aspects 21. Recent changes in bird migrations 22. Biogeographical legacies 23. Distribution patterns

Part 5. Migration systems and population limitation 24. The Palearctic-Afrotropical Migration system 25. The Nearctic-Neotropical migration system 26. Population limitation breeding and wintering areas 27. Population limitation conditions on stopover 28. Mass mortality of migrants

Authors

Ian Newton Senior Ecologist, Natural Environment Research Council, Swindon, UK. Dr. Ian Newton is respected world-wide both as a biologist with a special interest and expertise in this subject and as a communicator. He is a seasoned and popular keynote speaker at National and International meetings, and his talks are often the high point of conferences. Ian Newton was born and raised in north Derbyshire. He attended Chesterfield Boys Grammar School, followed by the universities of Bristol and Oxford. He has been interested in birds since boyhood, and as a teenager developed a particular fascination with finches, which later led to doctoral and post-doctoral studies on these birds. Later in life he became known for his penetrating field studies of bird populations, notably on raptors. He is now a senior ecologist with the Natural Environment Research Council and visiting professor of ornithology at the University of Oxford.