The Migration Ecology of Birds

The Migration Ecology of Birds, 2nd Edition, by Ian Newton, offers an extensive investigation into avian travel strategies, timing, and environmental interactions. Published by Academic Press, this work establishes the ecological foundations of bird movements across diverse global habitats. It outlines how environmental factors and biological rhythms direct seasonal migrations.

The narrative structures its analysis across five main parts. Initial sections focus on migratory flight, fueling strategies, weather influences, navigation, and vagrancy. Subsequent sections address annual cycles, physiological control systems, and broad geographic trends, alongside age and sex variations, site fidelity, and irruptive movements among boreal seed-eaters, owls, raptors, and waterfowl.

A single defining feature of this edition is its research foundation, backed by maps, diagrams, explanatory tables, and a bibliography containing over 3,000 references. The text supports advanced undergraduate and graduate students in biology, zoology, and ecology, as well as professional ornithologists, physiologists, birdwatchers, and bird-ringers.