Predictive Ornithology
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Predictive Ornithology reflects the technological advance of both meteorology
and ornithology (the study of birds). We've reached the point in our understanding
of bird behavior and mesoscale meteorology where we can apply weather forecast
techniques to predict bird migration and foraging flights. This field is in
its infancy but already includes aspects of all of the fields described above.
Field Experiments | Selected
Publications
Field Experiments
| Year |
Project |
Location |
Platform |
| 1998 |
Saskatchewan Swainsons Hawk Experiment |
Moose Jaw, Canada |
Swainsons Hawks - Biological Aeronautical Vehicles |
| 2001- |
Continental Migration Study |
Continental United States |
NEXRAD radar network |
Selected Publications
- Germi, F., G.S. Young, A. Salim, W. Pangimangen, M. Schellekens, 2009:
Over-ocean raptor migration in a monsoon regime: spring and autumn 2007
on Sangihe, North Sulawesi. Indonesia. Forktail, 25, 105-117.
--- Abstract
- M. J. McGrady, G. S. Young, W. S. and Seegar, 2006: Migration of a Peregrine
falcon Falco peregrinus over water in the vicinity of a hurricane. Ringing
and Migration, 23, 80-84.--- Abstract
- H. D. Shannon, G. S. Young, M. A. Yates, M. R. Fuller, and W. S. Seegar,
2002: Measurements of thermal updraft intensity over complex terrain using
American white pelicans and a simple boundary-layer forecast model. Boundary-Layer
Meteorol., 104, 167-199. --- Abstract
- H. D. Shannon, G. S. Young, M. A. Yates, M. R. Fuller, and W. S. Seegar,
2002: American white pelican soaring flight times and altitudes relative
to changes in thermal depth and intensity. Condor, 104, 679-683.
--- Abstract