Abstract
Only one study has examined nocturnal bird migration at a continent-wide scale in North America, and it was limited to four nights in October (Lowery and Newman 1966). Most radar studies of bird migration have been restricted to the surveillance areas of single radars. Few studies have examined simultaneously bird migration at multiple radar sites (e.g., Richardson 1972 gathered data simultaneously from three surveillance radars), and no studies have used a national network of surveillance radars to simultaneously detect, quantify, and monitor migration nightly during migration seasons. The following chapter details a methodology developed in the year 2000 for using the network of 140 Doppler weather surveillance radars (WSR-88D) in the United States (Fig. 1) to study the night-to-night patterns of bird migration in spring and fall at regional and national scales.
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Gauthreaux, S.A., Belser, C.G., van Blaricom, D. (2003). Using a Network of WSR-88D Weather Surveillance Radars to Define Patterns of Bird Migration at Large Spatial Scales. In: Berthold, P., Gwinner, E., Sonnenschein, E. (eds) Avian Migration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05957-9_23
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