Publications — Animal Migration Biology at Illinois

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Last updated 18 Jun 2025

2025
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	Stable atmospheric conditions underlie a steady pace of nocturnal bird migration in the tropics Van Doren BM, Bayly NJ, Ramirez W, Ladino Rincon A, Bates JM, Dokter AM Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292:20242609 download pdf
	Social associations across species during nocturnal bird migration Van Doren BM, DeSimone J, Firth JA, Hillemann F, Gayk Z, Cohen E, Farnsworth A Current Biology 35:898-904.e4 download pdf
	A call in the dark: Nocturnal flight calls and their potential to advance the study of avian migration Osterhaus DM, Boland KC, Horton KG, Van Doren BM, Cutler PL, Desmond MJ, Wright TF Ornithology download pdf

2024
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	Evaluation of methods to estimate nocturnal bird migration activity: Comparison of radar and nocturnal flight call monitoring in the American West Osterhaus DM, Van Doren BM, Horton KG, Abadi F, Wright TF, Desmond MJ Ornithological Applications download pdf
	BirdVoxDetect: Large-Scale Detection and Classification of Flight Calls for Bird Migration Monitoring Lostanlen V, Cramer A, Salamon J, Farnsworth A, Van Doren BM, Kelling S, Bello JP IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing download pdf
	Nocturnal avian migration drives high daily turnover but limited change in abundance on the ground Nussbaumer R, Van Doren BM, Hochachka WM, Farnsworth A, La Sorte FA, Johnston A, Dokter AM Ecography download pdf
	Could bi‐axial orientation explain range expansion in a migratory songbird? Wynn J, Fandos G, Delmore K, Van Doren BM, Fransson T, Liedvogel M Journal of Avian Biology download pdf
	Heavy migration traffic and bad weather are a dangerous combination: Bird collisions in New York City Chen K, Kross SM, Parkins K, Seewagen C, Farnsworth A,Van Doren BM Journal of Applied Ecology download pdf
	Nighthawk: acoustic monitoring of nocturnal bird migration in the Americas Van Doren BM, Farnsworth A, Stone K, Osterhaus DM, Drucker J, Van Horn G Methods in Ecology and Evolution download pdf
	Magnolia Warbler flight calls demonstrate individuality and variation by season and recording location Ress EM, Farnsworth A, Morris SR, Lanzone M, Van Doren BM Ornithology ukad056 download pdf

2023
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	Structural genomic variation and migratory behavior in a wild songbird Delmore KE, Van Doren BM, Ullrich K, Curk T, van der Jeugd HP, Liedvogel M Evolution Letters 7:401-412 download pdf
	Space weather disrupts nocturnal bird migration Gulson-Castillo ER, Van Doren BM, Bui MX, Horton KG, Li J, Moldwin MB, Shedden K, Welling DT, Winger BM Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120:e2306317120 download pdf
	Lower survival of hybrid grosbeaks, but not towhees, suggests a molt divide disfavors hybrids Rohwer VG, Hagler SJ, Van Doren BM, Fuentes M, Billerman SM Evolution 77:1956-1966 download pdf
	Citizen science to address the global issue of bird–window collisions Loss SR, Li BV, Horn LC, Mesure MR, Zhu L, Brys TG, Dokter AM, Elmore JA, Gibbons RE, Homayoun TZ, Horton KG, Inglet P, Jones BJ, Keys T, Lao S, Loss SS, Parkins KL, Prestridge HL, Riggs GJ, Riding CS, Sweezey KR, Vallery AC, Van Doren BM, Wang J, Zuzula C, Farnsworth A Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment download pdf
	Six decades of North American bird banding records reveal plasticity in migration phenology Horton KG, Morris SR, Van Doren BM, Covino KM Journal of Animal Ecology 92:738–750 download pdf
	Automated acoustic monitoring captures timing and intensity of bird migration Van Doren BM, Lostanlen V, Cramer A, Salamon J, Dokter A, Kelling S, Bello JP, Farnsworth A Journal of Applied Ecology 60:433–444 download pdf
	BirdFlow: Learning seasonal bird movements from eBird data Fuentes M, Van Doren BM, Fink D, Sheldon D Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14:923-938 download pdf

2022
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	The role of artificial light at night and road density in predicting the seasonal occurrence of nocturnally migrating birds La Sorte FA, Johnston A, Rodewald AD, Fink D, Farnsworth A, Van Doren BM, Auer T, Strimas-Mackey M Diversity and Distributions 28:992–1009 download pdf

2021
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	Avoidance of different durations, colours and intensities of artificial light by adult seabirds Syposz M, Padget O, Willis J, Van Doren BM, Gillies N, Fayet AL, Wood MJ, Alejo A, Guilford T Scientific Reports 11:18941
	Bird strikes at commercial airports explained by citizen science and weather radar data. Nilsson C, La Sorte F, Dokter A, Horton K, Van Doren BM, Kolodzinski J, Shamoun-Baranes J, Farnsworth A Journal of Applied Ecology 58:2029–2039 download pdf
	Drivers of fatal bird collisions in an urban center Van Doren BM, Willard DE, Hennen M, Horton KG, Stuber EF, Sheldon D, Sivakumar AH, Wang J, Farnsworth A, Winger BM Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118:e2101666118 download pdf
	Human activity shapes the wintering ecology of a migratory bird Van Doren BM, Conway GJ, Phillips RJ, Evans GC, Roberts GCM, Liedvogel M, Sheldon BC Global Change Biology 27:2715-2727 download pdf
	Near-term ecological forecasting for dynamic aeroconservation of migratory birds Horton KG, Van Doren BM, Albers HJ, Farnsworth A, Sheldon D Conservation Biology 35:1777–1786 download pdf

2020
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	Individual variability and versatility in an eco-evolutionary model of avian migration Delmore KE, Van Doren BM*, Conway GJ, Curk T, Garrido-Garduño T, Germain RR, Hasselmann T, Hiemer D, van der Jeugd HP, Justen H, Lugo Ramos JS, Maggini I, Meyer BS, Phillips RJ, Remisiewicz M, Roberts GCM, Sheldon BC, Vogl W, Liedvogel M Equal contributions Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287:20201339 download pdf
	The genomic landscape of divergence across the speciation continuum in island-colonising silvereyes (Zosterops lateralis) Sendell-Price AT, Ruegg KC, Anderson EC, Quilodrán CS, Van Doren BM, Underwood VL, Coulson T, Clegg SM G3 10:3147-3163 download pdf
	Drivers of avian species richness and community structure in urban courtyard gardens Pirzio Biroli A, Van Doren BM, Grabowska-Zhang A Journal of Urban Ecology 6:juz026

2019
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	Evolutionary response to climate change in migratory pied flycatchers Helm B, Van Doren BM*, Hoffmann D, Hoffmann U Equal contributions Current Biology 29:3714-3719.e4 Commentary in Current Biology 29:R1189-R1191
	MistNet: Measuring historical bird migration in the US using archived weather radar data and convolutional neural networks Lin T-Y, Winner K, Bernstein G, Dokter A, Horton KG, Nilsson C, Van Doren BM, Farnsworth A, La Sorte FA, Maji S, Sheldon D Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10:1908-1922
	Helpers at a Sapayoa nest are kin Van Doren BM, Hruska JP, Dzielski SA, Butcher B Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 139:94-98
	Bright lights in the big cities: migratory birds' exposure to artificial light at night Horton KG, Nilsson C, Van Doren BM, La Sorte FA, Dokter AM, Farnsworth A Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17:209-214
	Holding steady: Little change in intensity or timing of bird migration over the Gulf of Mexico Horton KG, Van Doren BM, La Sorte FA, Cohen EB, Clipp H, Buler JJ, Fink D, Kelly JF, Farnsworth A Global Change Biology 25:1106-1118

2018
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	Aeroecology of a solar eclipse Nilsson C, Horton KG, Dokter AM, Van Doren BM, Farnsworth A Biology Letters 14:20180485
	A continental system for forecasting bird migration Van Doren BM, Horton KG Science 361:1115-1118 Featured in Nature 561:314 Press: NPR 1 · NPR 2 · Discover · Audubon · Smithsonian · Science News · NBC Mach · MI Public Radio
	Navigating north: how body mass and winds shape avian flight behaviors across a North American migratory flyway Horton KG, Van Doren BM, La Sorte FA, Fink D, Sheldon D, Farnsworth A, Kelly J Ecology Letters 21:1055-1064
	Comparative analysis examining patterns of genomic differentiation across multiple episodes of population divergence in birds Delmore KE, Lugo Ramos JS, Van Doren BM, Lundberg M, Bensch S, Irwin DE, Liedvogel M Evolution Letters 2:76-87
	Species limits in the Rusty-breasted Antpitta (Grallaricula ferrugineipectus) complex Van Doren BM, Freeman BG, Aristizabal N, Alvarez-R M, Perez-Eman J, Cuervo AM, Bravo GA Wilson Journal of Ornithology 130:152-167 The South American Classification Committee voted unanimously to revise the taxonomy (proposal 784).

2017
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	Student-led expeditions as an educational and collections-building enterprise Winkler DW, Pegan TM, Gulson-Castillo ER, Byington JI, Hruska JP, Orzechowski S, Van Doren BM, Greig E, Wood EW The Extended Specimen: Emerging Frontiers in Collections-based Ornithological Research Studies in Avian Biology (no. 50), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL
	High-intensity urban light installation dramatically alters nocturnal bird migration Van Doren BM, Horton KG, Dokter AM, Klinck H, Elbin SE, Farnsworth A * Equal contributions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 201708574
	Correlated patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation across an avian family Van Doren BM, Campagna L, Helm B, Illera JC, Lovette IJ, Liedvogel M Molecular Ecology 26:3982-3997 Commentary in Molecular Ecology 26:3853-3856
	Programmed and flexible: long-term Zugunruhe data highlight the many axes of variation in avian migratory behaviour Van Doren BM, Liedvogel M, Helm Journal of Avian Biology 48:155-172

2016
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	Notes on the avifauna of the northern Serranía de Pirre, Panamá Hruska JP, Dzielski SA, Van Doren BM, Hite JM Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 136:224-242
	Where in the air? Aerial habitat use of nocturnally migrating birds Horton KG, Van Doren BM, Stepanian PM, Farnsworth A, Kelly JF Biology Letters 12:20160591
	Seasonal differences in landbird migration strategies Horton KG, Van Doren BM, Stepanian PM, Farnsworth A, Kelly JF The Auk: Ornithological Advances 133:761-769
	Innovative visualizations shed light on avian nocturnal migration Shamoun-Baranes J, Farnsworth A, Aelterman B, Alves JA, Azijn K, Bernstein G, Branco S, Desmet P, Dokter AM, Horton K, Kelling S, Kelly JF, Leijnse H, Rong J, Sheldon D, Van den Broeck W, Van Den Meersche JK, Van Doren BM, van Gasteren H PLoS ONE 11:e0160106
	Reproductive biology of the Sapayoa (Sapayoa aenigma), the 'Old World suboscine' of the New World Dzielski SA, Van Doren BM*, Hruska JP, Hite JM Equal contributions The Auk: Ornithological Advances 133:347-363
	Nocturnally migrating songbirds drift when they can and compensate when they must Horton KG, Van Doren BM, Stepanian PM, Hochachka WM, Farnsworth A, Kelly JF Scientific Reports 6:21249
	Wind drift explains the reoriented morning flights of songbirds Van Doren BM, Horton KG, Stepanian PM, Mizrahi DS, Farnsworth A Behavioral Ecology 27:1122-1131
	A characterization of autumn nocturnal migration detected by weather surveillance radars in the northeastern USA Farnsworth A, Van Doren BM, Hochachka WM, Sheldon D, Winner K, Irvine J, Geevarghese J, Kelling S Ecological Applications 26:752-770

2015
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	Migration timing and its determinants for nocturnal migratory birds during autumn migration La Sorte FA, Hochachka WM, Farnsworth A, Sheldon D, Fink D, Geevarghese J, Winner K, Van Doren BM, Kelling S Journal of Animal Ecology 84:1202-1212
	Seasonal changes in the altitudinal distribution of nocturnally migrating birds during autumn migration La Sorte FA, Hochachka WM, Farnsworth A, Sheldon D, Van Doren BM, Fink D, Kelling S Royal Society Open Science 2
	Autumn morning flights of migrant songbirds in the northeastern United States are linked to nocturnal migration and winds aloft Van Doren BM, Sheldon D, Geevarghese J, Hochachka WM, Farnsworth A The Auk: Ornithological Advances 132:105-118

2014
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	Reconstructing Velocities of Migrating Birds from Weather Radar---A Case Study in Computational Sustainability Farnsworth A, Sheldon D, Geevarghese J, Irvine J, Van Doren BM, Webb K, Dietterich TG, Kelling AI Magazine 35

2013
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	Approximate Bayesian Inference for Reconstructing Velocities of Migrating Birds from Weather Radar Sheldon DR, Farnsworth A, Irvine J, Van Doren BM, Webb KF, Dietterich TG, Kelling S Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 1334-1340 Won Best Paper in Computational Sustainability

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