Technology on the move: Recent and forthcoming innovations for tracking migratory birds

BioScience

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 689-698

  Bridge, Eli S ^a   Thorup, Kasper ^b   Bowlin, Melissa S ^c   Chilson, Phillip B ^a   Diehl, Robert H ^d   Fléron, René W ^e   Hartl, Phillip ^f,g   Roland, Kays ^h   Kelly, Jeffrey F ^a   Robinson, W Douglas ⁱ   Wikelski, Martin ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^d The University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f Max Planck Institute ^*

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^h NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

ⁱ OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

cellular tracking; geolocators; radar ornithology; satellite transmitter; Tracking technology

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 80052760463     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.9.7     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Altizer S, Bartel R, Han BA. 2011. Animal migration and infectious disease risk. Science 331: 296-302.
2. Barron DG, Brawn JD, Weatherhead PJ. 2010. Meta-analysis of transmitter effects on avian behaviour and ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 1: 180-187.
3. Blackburn L. 2006. Tag team. Science 313: 780-781.
4. Bowlin MS, Wikelski MC. 2008. Pointed wings, low wingloading and calm air reduce migratory flight costs in songbirds. PLoS ONE 3: e2154.
5. Bowlin MS, Cochran WW, Wikelski MC. 2005. Biotelemetry of New World thrushes during migration: Physiology, energetics and orientation in the wild. Integrative and Comparative Biology 45: 295-304. (Pubitemid 40748080)
6. Bowlin MS, et al. 2010a. Grand challenges in migration biology. Integrative and Comparative Biology 50: 261-279.
7. Bowlin MS, Henningsson P, Muijres FT, Vleugels RHE, Liechti F, Hedenström A. 2010b. The effects of geolocator drag and weight on the flight ranges of small migrants. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 1: 398-402.
8. Boyle WA, Conway CJ. 2007. Why migrate? A test of the evolutionary precursor hypothesis. American Naturalist 169: 344-359. (Pubitemid 46340041)
9. Caccamise DF, Hedin RS. 1985. An aerodynamic basis for selecting transmitter loads in birds. Wilson Bulletin 97: 306-318.
10. Carey C. 2009. The impacts of climate change on the annual cycles of birds. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364: 3321-3330.
11. Chapman JW, Drake VA, Reynolds DR. 2011. Recent insights from radar studies of insect flight. Annual Review of Entomology 56: 337-356.
12. Cochran WW. 1987. Orientation and other migratory behaviors of a Swain-son's thrush followed for 1500 km. Animal Behaviour 35: 927-929.
13. Cochran WW, Wikelski M. 2005. Individual migratory tactics of New World Catharus thrushes: Current knowledge and future tracking options from space. Pages 274-289 in Marra PP, Greenburg RS, eds. Birds of Two Worlds: Ecology and Evolution of Migration. Johns Hopkins University Press.
14. Cochran WW, Montgomery GG, Graber RR. 1967. Migratory flights of Hylocichla thrushes in spring: A radiotelemetry study. Living Bird 6: 213-225.
15. Cochran WW, Bowlin MS, Wikelski M. 2008. Wingbeat frequency and flap-pause ratio during natural migratory flight in thrushes. Integrative and Comparative Biology 48: 134-151. (Pubitemid 351985122)
16. Cotton PA. 2003. Avian migration phenology and global climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100: 12219-12222. (Pubitemid 37271541)
17. Diehl RH, Larkin R P, Black JE. 2003. Radar observations of bird migration over the Great Lakes. Auk 120: 278-290. (Pubitemid 36774912)
18. Dingle H, Drake VA. 2007. What is migration? BioScience 57: 113-121.
19. Dokter AM, Liechti F, Stark H, Delobbe L, Tabary P, Holleman I. 2011. Bird migration flight altitudes studied by a network of operational weather radars. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 8: 30-43.
20. Doviak RJ, Bringi V, Ryzhkov A, Zahrai A, Zrnić D[S]. 2000. Considerations for polarimetric upgrades to operational WSR-88D radars. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 17: 257-278. (Pubitemid 30258115)
21. Dubinin M, Lushchekina A, Radeloff VC. 2010. Performance and accuracy of Argos transmitters for wildlife monitoring in Southern Russia. European Journal of Wildlife Research 56: 459-463.
22. Elith J, et al. 2006. Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data. Ecography 29: 129-151.
23. Faaborg J, et al. 2010. Conserving migratory land birds in the New World: Do we know enough? Ecological Applications 20: 398-418.
24. Fair JM, Jankowski MD. 2009. Bird conservation is public health intervention. New Mexico Ornithological Society Bulletin 37: 94-100.
25. Fudickar AM, Wikelski M, Partecke J. 2011. Tracking migratory songbirds: Accuracy of light-level loggers (geolocators) in forest habitats. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00136.x
26. Gauthreaux SA, Belser CG, van Blaricom D. 2003. Using a network of WSR-88D weather surveillance radars to define patterns of bird migration at large spatial scales. Pages 335-346 in Berthold P, Gwinner E, Sonnenschein E, eds. Avian Migration. Springer.
27. Guglielmo CG. 2010. Move that fatty acid: Fuel selection and transport in migratory birds and bats. Integrative and Comparative Biology 50: 336-345.
28. Hadley AS, Betts MG. 2009. Tropical deforestation alters hummingbird movement patterns. Biology Letters 5: 207-210.
29. Jahn AE, Levey DJ, Hostetler JA, Mamani AM. 2010. Determinants of partial bird migration in the Amazon Basin. Journal of Animal Ecology 79: 983-992.
30. Keating KA, Brewster WG, Key CH. 1991. Satellite telemetry: Performance of animal-tracking systems. Journal of Wildlife Management 55: 160-171.
31. Kotzerka J, Garthe S, Hatch SA. 2010. GPS tracking devices reveal foraging strategies of black-legged kittiwakes. Journal of Ornithology 151: 459-467.
32. Lack D, Varley GC. 1945. Detection of birds by radar. Nature 156: 446.
33. Lawton JH, May RM. 1983. Ecology: The birds of Selborne. Nature 306: 732-733.
34. Lydersen C, Nøst OA, Lovell P, McConnell BJ, Gammelsrød T, Hunter C, Fedak MA, Kovacs km. 2002. Salinity and temperature structure of a freezing Arctic fjord-Monitored by white whales (Delphinapterus leucas). Geophysical Research Letters 29: 34.1-34.4.
35. Marris E. 2010. Birds flock online. Nature. (13 June 2011; www.nature.com/news/2010/100810/full/news.2010.395.html?s=news-rss) doi:10.1038/news.2010.1395
36. Maxwell, JC. 1971. A Doppler satellite system design for animal tracking. Pages 269-270 in IEEE National Telemetering Conference Record, April 1971.
37. McWilliams SR, Guglielmo C, Pierce B, Klaassen M. 2004. Flying, fasting, and feeding in birds during migration: A nutritional and physiological ecology perspective. Journal of Avian Biology 35: 377-393. (Pubitemid 39275400)
38. Murray DL, Fuller MR. 2000. A critical review of the effects of marking on the biology of vertebrates. Pages 15-64 in Boitani L, Fuller TK, eds. Research Techniques in Animal Ecology: Controversies and Consequences. Columbia University Press.
39. Naef-Daenzer B, Früh D, Stalder M, Wetli P, Weise E. 2005. Miniaturization (0.2·g) and evaluation of attachment techniques of telemetry transmitters. Journal of Experimental Biology 208: 4063-4068. (Pubitemid 41728311)
40. O'Neal BJ, Stafford JD, Larkin RP. 2010. Waterfowl on weather radar: Applying ground-truth to classify and quantify bird movements. Journal of Field Ornithology 81: 71-82.
41. Paiva VH, Guilford T, Meade J, Geraldes P, Ramos JA, Garthe S. 2010. Flight dynamics of Cory's shearwater foraging in a coastal environment. Zoology 113: 47-56.
42. Phillips RA, Silk JRD, Croxall J P, Afanasyev V, Briggs DR. 2004. Accuracy of geolocation estimates for flying seabirds. Marine Ecology Progress Series 266: 265-272. (Pubitemid 38261010)
43. Reynolds D. 1988. Twenty years of radar entomology. Antenna 12: 44-49.
44. Robinson WD, Bowlin MS, Bisson IA, Shamoun-Baranes J, Thorup K, Diehl RH, Kunz TH, Mabey SE, Winkler DW. 2010. Integrating concepts and technologies to advance the study of bird migration. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8: 354-361.
45. Schmaljohann H, Liechti F, Bächler E, Steuri T, Bruderer B. 2008. Quantification of bird migration by radar-a detection probability problem. Ibis 150: 342-355. (Pubitemid 351442617)
46. Serafin RJ, Wilson JW. 2000. Operational weather radar in the United States: Progress and opportunity. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 81: 501-518.
47. Shamoun-Baranes J, Bouten W, van Loon E. 2010. Integrating meteorology into research on migration. Integrative and Comparative Biology 50: 280-292.
48. Strandberg R, Klaassen RHG, Hake M, Alerstam T. 2010. How hazardous is the Sahara Desert crossing for migratory birds? Indications from satellite tracking of raptors. Biology Letters 6: 297-300.
49. Stutchbury BJM, Hill JR III, Kramer PM, Rush SA, Tarof SA. 2009a. Sex and age-specific annual survival in a neotropical migratory songbird, the purple martin (Progne subis). Auk 126: 278-287.
50. Stutchbury BJM, Tarof SA, Done T, Gow E, Kramer PM, Tautin J, Fox JW, Afanasyev V. 2009b. Tracking long-distance songbird migration by using geolocators. Science 323: 896.
51. Sullivan BL, Wood CL, Iliff MJ, Bonney RE, Fink D, Kelling S. 2009. eBird: A citizen-based bird observation network in the biological sciences. Biological Conservation 142: 2282-2292.
52. Sumner MD, Wotherspoon SJ, Hindell MA. 2009. Bayesian estimation of animal movement from archival and satellite tags. PLoS ONE 4: e7324.
53. Takekawa JY, et al. 2010. Victims and vectors: Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 and the ecology of wild birds. Avian Biology Research 3: 51-73.
54. Thorup K, Holland RA, Tottrup AP, Wikelski M. 2010. Understanding the migratory orientation program of birds: Extending laboratory studies to study free-flying migrants in a natural setting. Integrative and Comparative Biology 50: 315-322.
55. Vincent C, McConnell BJ, Ridoux V, Fedak MA. 2002. Assessment of Argos location accuracy from satellite tags deployed on captive gray seals. Marine Mammal Science 18: 156-166. (Pubitemid 34115155)
56. Welch DW, Eveson JP. 1999. An assessment of light-based geoposition estimates from archival tags. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 56: 1317-1327. (Pubitemid 30627033)
57. White NA, Sjöberg M. 2002. Accuracy of satellite positions from free-ranging grey seals using ARGOS. Polar Biology 25: 629-631. (Pubitemid 36064542)
58. Wikelski M, Kays RW, Kasdin NJ, Thorup K, Smith JA, Swenson GW Jr. 2007. Going wild: What a global small-animal tracking system could do for experimental biologists. Journal of Experimental Biology 210: 181-186.
59. Zrnić DS, Ryzhkov AV. 1998. Observations of insects and birds with a polarimetric radar. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 36: 661-668.