🐦 #NEWS

In what is proving to be a vintage year for #birdwatchers, this autumn has been a classic one for North #American #landbirds arriving on #UK shores

At the last count, more than 50 individual birds of 15 ultra-rare species had been found, including three “megas”, as birders call them

These were Britain’s first #Canada warbler, second bay-breasted #warbler and third and fourth #magnolia warblers

If you imagine that these are dull, greenish-brown #birds like ⏩

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/19/storm-sweeps-north-american-landbirds-to-britain

#NewPublication #OpenAccess by João Guilherme et al. shows how countries along the Afro-Palearctic #MigratoryFlyway are connected by long distance #migrations of #landbirds & #raptors.

This review of #tracking studies on #MigratoryBirds in the flyway shows current state of knowledge and identifies priorities for future studies to fill knowledge gaps.

Plus: very useful dataset and appendixes – read on for details ⬇️ (thread 1/7)

https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.14002