Highlights•Monarchs are being tracked on local, regional, and continental scales using
traditional and novel approaches.•Advances in behavioral assays, neural imaging and …

Artificial light at night significantly alters the predictability of the natural light cycles that most
animals use as an essential Zeitgeber for daily activity. Direct light has well-documented …

Migratory birds typically separate energetically demanding parts of the annual cycle like
breeding, moult and migration with some species engaging in so‐called moult‐migration …

Over the past decades, tracking technologies have become more ubiquitous and helped
uncover crucial spatiotemporal relationships in nature. In order to apply these technologies …

Abstract The Lesser Grey Shrike is a typical Palaearctic songbird for which we have limited
knowledge of its migration ecology. All that is known about its non-breeding movements is …

Background Migrating birds fly non-stop for hours or even for days. They rely mainly on fat
as fuel complemented by a certain amount of protein. Studies on homing pigeons and birds …

The barred warbler, Curruca nisoria, is an Afro-Palearctic migrating bird with a wide
breeding distribution across eastern Europe to central Asia. Ring recoveries and direct …

Time is of the essence in ecology. Indeed, approaches to understand the mechanisms that
underpin ecological systems and predict their trends can greatly benefit from the explicit …