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Timing of Bird Migration in Relation to Weather: Updated Review

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Bird Migration

Abstract

Effects of daily changes in weather on numbers of birds taking off on migration have been investigated for many decades. This field was especially active in the 1960s and 1970s when many systematic radar and visual studies of migration were done. Also, multivariate and other statistical methods became widely used, providing a partial solution to the problem of quantifying and separating the effects of interrelated weather variables on migration. Work up to 1977 was reviewed by Richardson (1978a), hereafter cited as R78a.

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Richardson, W.J. (1990). Timing of Bird Migration in Relation to Weather: Updated Review. In: Gwinner, E. (eds) Bird Migration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74542-3_6

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