Learning to soar: a multi-species investigation

Flight behavior is, at least partially, progressively acquired during a bird’s early life stages. In soaring birds, this process involves learning to interact with the physical environment to effectively extract energy from it. How well and how fast an individual learns to soar can depend on morphological and cognitive traits, and its physical and social environment. The resulting individual variation can influence success later on in life, in foraging, migration, or survival. We explore this topic in various scales, from post-fledging flights of golden eagles to migratory route selection in European honey buzzards.

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