Dr. Andrea Flack

The goal of the Collective Migration Group is to explore how the various factors (ecological, environmental, genetic) give rise to individual life histories in migrating birds, and to reveal the consequences for population and evolutionary dynamics. We use innovative and state-of-the-art approaches ranging from bird ringing and citizen science to automated movement tracking, (e.g. high-resolution GPS, accelerometers, magnetometers, and heart rate loggers), and from detailed observational studies to large-scale experiments (e.g. delayed-releases, translocations, and cross-fostering experiments). Our study system is the long-distance bird migrant, the white stork (Ciconia Ciconia).

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