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Flock Migration

Flock Migration is a behavioral ecology construct that denotes the coordinated, large-scale movement of conspecific bird populations during seasonal translocation, distinguished from individual or partial migration by its reliance on collective navigation, social information transfer, and synchronized decision-making within cohesive avian groups.

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Bird Migration: A General Survey

The Auk · 2002 · 666 citations · Full text

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Optimal bird migration revisited

Thomas Alerstam · Journal für Ornithologie · 2011 · 420 citations · Full text

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Social Learning of Migratory Performance

Thomas Mueller, Robert B. O’Hara, Sarah J. Converse et al. · Science · 2013 · 375 citations

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The cichlid fishes of Lake Victoria, East Africa: the biology and evolution of a species flock

Peter Humphry Greenwood · Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Supplement · 1974 · 307 citations · Full text

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Finch flocks in the Mohave Desert

Martin L. Cody · Theoretical Population Biology · 1971 · 305 citations

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Authors

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    Thomas Alerstam

    Lund University, Sweden

    7 publications · 765 citations

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    Nicolantonio Agostini

    University of Pavia, Italy

    3 publications · 49 citations

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    Theunis Piersma

    Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands

    3 publications · 199 citations

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    Michele Panuccio

    University of Pavia, Italy

    3 publications · 49 citations

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    Martin Wikelski

    Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany

    3 publications · 240 citations

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  1. Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

    Pöcking, Germany

    6 h-index

    15 publications

    988 citations

  2. Lund University

    Lund, Sweden

    6 h-index

    12 publications

    994 citations

  3. National Zoological Park

    Washington, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    477 citations

  4. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    243 citations

  5. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    199 citations

  6. University of Konstanz

    Konstanz, Germany

    3 h-index

    16 publications

    887 citations

  7. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    157 citations

  8. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

    Front Royal, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    464 citations

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  1. Animal Behaviour

    11 publications · 727 citations

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  2. Ornithological Applications

    7 publications · 204 citations

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  3. Ibis

    7 publications · 343 citations

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  4. The Auk

    7 publications · 849 citations

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  5. Oecologia

    4 publications · 215 citations

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