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The phenomenon of raptor migration has fascinated humanity since antiquity and with good reason. As one of the most behaviorally flexible aspects of raptor biology, migration has allowed this trophic lineage to prosper in ways that few terrestrial top predators have been able to achieve.

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Acknowledgments

Dating from the early 1980s, my studies of raptor migration would not have been possible without the help and inspiration of many mentors, as well as from dozens of colleagues and students, most of which have made significant contributions to the field on their own. Financial support for my studies has come from many sources including Winthrop University; the Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research, at the University of South Carolina; and more recently from Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, the Acopian family, and the Wallace Research Foundation, among others. I thank them all. This is Hawk Mountain Sanctuary contribution to conservation science number 296.

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  1. Acopian Center of Conservation Learning, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Orwigsburg, PA, USA

    Keith L. Bildstein

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  1. Centro para el Estudio y Conservación de las Aves Rapaces en Argentina (CECARA), Universidad Nacional de La Pampa (UNLPam) & Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET), Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina

    José Hernán Sarasola

  2. Centro para el Estudio y Conservación de las Aves Rapaces en Argentina (CECARA), Universidad Nacional de La Pampa (UNLPam) & Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET), Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina

    Juan Manuel Grande

  3. Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain

    Juan José Negro

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Bildstein, K.L. (2018). Raptor Migration. In: Sarasola, J., Grande, J., Negro, J. (eds) Birds of Prey. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73745-4_5

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