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This is a list of
internet links to other sites related to bird migration (last updated July
2002). Please let us know of
any other interesting sites! ●
The African Bird Club
publishes the Bulletin of the African Bird Club that reports on
sightings of migratory birds in Africa.
Many of these reports can also be found on their webpage: http://www.africanbirdclub.org/ ●
The African-Eurasian
Migratory (Waterbird) Agreement is the largest agreement developed so far under the Convention of Migratory
Species (CMS) and came into force on 1 November 1999. The webpage gives an overview of this agreement and previous
treaties to protect migratory species: http://www.unep-wcmc.org/AEWA/eng/intro.htm ●
The Avian Demography
Unit at the University of Capetown, South Africa, published a bird
atlas for South Africa (Harrison J. A., Allan D. G., Underhill L. G.,
Herremans M., Tree A. J., Parker V., Brown C. J. eds. 1997. The atlas
of southern African birds. Vols. 1-2. BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa) and
regularly puts sightings of migratory birds on its webpage. It also has links to other sites on its webpage, including a
link to SAFRING, the South African Bird Ringing Unit: http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/stats/adu/ ●
The Bird Migration
Group at the Department
of Animal Ecology at the University of Lund in Sweden works on various
scientific aspects of bird migration: http://orn-lab.ekol.lu.se/birdmigration/ ●
The Common Swift (Apus
apus) website is dedicated to tracking the migration of the common
swift:
http://www.swift.utigges.il.eu.org/ ●
The Convention on
Migratory Species website lists all the participating parties, has pdf-files
of convention texts, proceedings, recommendations and resolutions from
meetings, its own bulletin, and other news: ●
EURING, the European
Union for Bird Ringing, is found on: The
addresses of all ringing schemes associated with EURING can also be
found on: http://www.euring.org/ContactSchemes.html ●
The Global Register
of Migratory Species (GROMS) contains interactive maps of migrating
species, pdf-files of several publications and links to purchase the book
on the topic: Riede K. 2001. The Global Register of Migratory Species
– database, GIS maps and threat analysis. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster,
Germany: ●
The
Institut für Vogelforschung "Vogelwarte Helgoland" has a
webpage in German that reports on the ringing work done at the institute
and some of the results from that work: http://www.vogelwarte-helgoland.de/ ●
Journey North, a Global Study of Wildlife Migration, is a programme in which North American students participate in
observing migration across the North American continent: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/ ●
The Max-Planck-Research-Centre
for Ornithology investigates neural and endocrine mechanisms of
migration and how they relate to temporal patterns and decision-making
processes, e.g. the decision of a bird to migrate or to stop-over.
Problems of spatial orientation, of energetics and water balance,
organ flexibility, and general migration strategies are also investigated: ●
Migrating Birds Know No Boundaries
is a site maintained by the International Center for the Study of Bird
Migration of the Israel Ornithological Center.
The site reports on the study of bird migration in Israel, one of
the hotspots of global migration. It
also shows the flight tracks of individual birds with satellite
transmitters: http://www.birds.org.il/show_item.asp?levelId=457 ●
Migration Watch is a
site maintained by the British Trust of Ornithology that tracks the
progress of migrants through Britain and Ireland: http://www.bto.org/migwatch/index.htm ●
The programmme Optimality
in Bird Migration is another EU-funded research programme that
combines the efforts of more than a dozen research groups across Europe
working on migration and its mechanisms and regulatory processes: http://www.esf.org/esf_article.php?language=0&activity=1&domain=3&article=92&page=324 ●
Other internet sources: (1)
The text of Global Overview of Arctic Migratory Breeding Birds
Outside the Arctic by D. A. Scott can be found by typing this title
into any search engine, e.g.
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