Geographic barriers and season shape the nightly timing of avian migration

Author:

Kranstauber Bart1ORCID,Bauer Silke12ORCID,Shamoun‐Baranes Judy1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics University of Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands

2. Swiss Ornithological Institute Sempach Switzerland

Abstract

AbstractAimMillions of birds take to the air for nocturnal migrations. Although it is widely recognized that migrants generally depart after sunset, nightly migration timing and their dependence on geographic features are hardly known at a continental scale, yet highly important for the mitigation of human‐wildlife conflicts. Using weather radars, we investigate barrier and seasonal effects on the timing of nocturnal bird migration.LocationNorth western Europe: United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Sweden and Finland.Time Period2014–2020.Major Taxa StudiedAves, nocturnal migrants, predominantly passerines.MethodsWe use nocturnal bird migration distributions extracted from 55 weather radars. The variation between these temporal distributions is captured using a principal component analysis, barrier effects and seasonal differences are investigated with a general linear model.ResultsMost variation in nightly migration timing can be explained by a univariate axis that distinguished a more evenly spread migration from a skewed migration. We found migration to be more evenly spread in spring and to have a clear peak early in the night in fall. Furthermore, migration is more peaked early in the night on locations close to or just upstream of major geographic barriers.ConclusionsOur study shows that migration fluxes tend to be more skewed during the night along coastlines and more uniform inland, far from water barriers. Regional and seasonal differences in nocturnal timing can provide vital information for adjusting the timing of wind park curtailment, lights‐out initiatives or other conflicts between migratory birds and human activities.

Funder

Academy of Finland

Belgian Federal Science Policy Office

National Science Foundation

Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Ecology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Global and Planetary Change

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