I am looking for reviews or articles which give distances for the following species: Anthus trivialis, Emberiza citrinella, Phoenicurus phoenicurus, Pyrrhula pyrrhula, Miliaria calandra, Galerida cristata, Luscinia megarhynchos, Oenanthe oenanthe. Distances should be from birds as young to a breeding site as adults, or adults coming back as breeding bird. I guess this information will mostly be available from capture-recapture studies with (colour)ringed young/adults? Distances will be used as a guideline for drawing buffers around species presence points in preferred habitat to check if that same habitat occurs also elsewhere within the buffer.
Here's one paper: Flight distance of urban birds, predation, and selection for urban life, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, November 2008, 63:63. I hope this helps! :-)
Hello Andrew, thanks a lot for your reaction. Unfortunately, although a very interesting article, this is more about flight distance to avoid predators, and a comparison between urban birds (less adapted to disturbance) and non-urban birds.
Anyway, thanks again and succes with your research there (for us) "down under"!
Anny
In the US, you might get some information from the USGS Bird Banding lab, which would have records of both initial banding site and any recapture/returns. There must be an equivalent for areas in Europe or UK.
Anne
Thanks Anne, I'll try to contact the UK ringing centre, menawhile I got also some more information from the Netherlands.
Anny
Dispersal distance estimates tend to be fairly sparse (especially in North America). If species specific estimates of dispersal distance are hard to find for your species of interest, you may want to look at or derive estimates using models on larger set of species. For example, see this paper and those citing it:
Bowman, Jeff. "Is dispersal distance of birds proportional to territory size?." Canadian Journal of Zoology 81, no. 2 (2003): 195-202.
I would also look at the papers that have cited the following:
Greenwood, P. J., & Harvey, P. H. (1982). The natal and breeding dispersal of birds. Annual review of ecology and systematics, 13, 1-21.
-Steve
Thanks a lot Steven, I will check this papers!
all the best and succes with your research
Anny
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