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Morning Flight Behavior Of Nocturnally Migrating Birds Along The Western Basin Of Lake Erie, Paul Tuck, David Gesicki, Verner Bingman

Psychology Faculty Publications

Many species of birds that normally migrate during the night have been observed engaging in so‐called morning flights during the early morning. The results of previous studies have supported the hypothesis that one function of morning flights is to compensate for wind drift that birds experienced during the night. Our objective was to further explore this hypothesis in a unique geographic context. We determined the orientation of morning flights along the southern shore of Lake Erie's western basin during the spring migrations of 2016 and 2017. This orientation was then compared to the observed orientation of nocturnal migration. Additionally, the …