Twice a year billions of birds track the seasonal pulse of the earth and move between breeding sites and wintering sites. Successfully migrating between remote areas is a delicate process where birds must navigate a series of novel environments, and carefully time their journeys based on both environmental and internal cues. So, it’s no surprise that migration is a perilous time, when birds are particularly exposed to disruptions of different kinds. In this project you will use data from the European weather radar network to investigate how different disruptors can affect large scale flows of nocturnal migrants. The overall goal is to test if potential disruptors have detectable effects on the flow of nocturnal migration. The results will answer important fundamental questions about how robust animal migration is to different types of disruptors, enabling us to better understand the evolutionary pressures that have shaped animal migration, and how these pressures will interact with our changing world in the future.
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