Swifts optimize their flight behaviour to adapt to favourable night-time light conditions, driven by light-responsive and size-dependent vertical insect stratification and weather conditions.
We suggest that swifts optimize their flight behaviour to adapt to favourable night-time light conditions, driven by light-responsive and size-dependent vertical insect stratification and weather conditions.
BlueGreen Labs contributes to the field of movement ecology through the research of Lyndon Kearsley with a long running project on monitoring the (movement) ecology of swifts.
In contrast to the current paradigm, which centers on insect availability using vegetation as a proxy, we show that weather related concentration of insects at convergence zones is key to describe foraging behaviour of Pallid swifts during the non-breeding season.