Acknowledgements

This course was written by Mandy Dyson and David Robinson.

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Figures

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources:

Figure 2a: © iStockphoto.com/red_moon_rise.

Figure 2b: © iStockphoto.com/Jan Kratochvilla.

Figure 2c: © iStockphoto.com/Eric Lawton.

Figure 2d: © iStockphoto.com/Ai-Lan Lee.

Figure 2e: © iStockphoto.com/Frank Leung.

Figure 4: © J.J. Harrison. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

Figure 5: © Adrian Riegen.

Figure 6a: © Jeff Schultz/AlaskaStock/Corbis.

Figure 6b: © Mettesd/Dreamstime.com.

Figure 8 Chiffchaff: ©iStockphoto.com/TobyPhotos.

Figure 8 Whinchat: ©iStockphoto.com/geoleo.

Figure 8 Nightingale: ©iStockphoto.com/BorislavFilev.

Figure 8 Blackcap: ©iStockphoto.com/Andrew_Howe.

Figure 8 Ring ouzel: Andreas Trepte. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

Figure 8 Wood warbler: Steve Garvie. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

Figure 9a: © Arco Images GmbH/Alamy.

Figure 10a:: © iStockphoto.com/The Power of Forever Photography.

Figure 10b: Adapted from a figure created by Melissa Mayntz, www.birding.about.com.

Figures 11a: © iStockphoto.com/Andy Gehrig.

Figure 11b: British Trust for Ornithology, www.bto.org/.

Figure 12: BirdLife International/www.birdlige.org.

Figure 13a: Pyshnyy Maxim Vjacheslavovich/Shutterstock.

Figures 13b, 14c and 15b: Taken from: All About Evolution by alexjiwon. www.allaboutevolution.wordpress.com/.

Figure 14a: Patrick Coin.

Figure 14b: John B. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

Figure 15a: © Rinus Baak/Dreamstime.com.

Figure 16: David Cook. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

Figures 17 and 18: Zimmer, C. and Emlen, D. J. (2012) Evolution: Making Sense of Life. Roberts and Company Publishers.

Figure 21: Adapted from a figure created by the University of Miami, Department of Biology.

Figure 22a: ©iStockphoto.com/pjmalsbury.

Figure 22b: Fir0002/Flagstaffotos. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/.

Figure 23: Wojciechowski, M. S. and Pinshow, B. (2009) 'Heterothermy in small, migrating passerine birds during stopover: use of hypothermia at rest accelerates fuel accumulation', Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 212, The Company of Biologists Ltd.

Figure 24: © iStockphoto.com/dmaroscar.

Figure 25a: Oregon Department of Transportation. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

Figure 25b: Adapted from a figure from www.biocyclopedia.com.

Figure 26: © All Canada Photos/Alamy.

Figure 27: © iStockphoto.com/martinspurny.

Tables

Table 1: Adapted from Nebel, S. (2012) 'Animal migration', Nature Education Knowledge, vol. 3, no.10, p. 77, Nature Publishing Group.

Videos and audios

Video 1: Monarch Butterfly migration: from BBC Life, Ep 6 © BBC.

Video 2: The Humpback Whale: from BBC Life, Ep 3 © BBC.

Video 3: Bar-headed geese: from BBC Realm of the Russian Bear, Ep 2 22.11.1992 © BBC.

Video 4: Ospreys of Martha's Vineyard: from BBC Osprey Odyssey, 22.10.06 © BBC.

Video 5: Introduction to Darwin's Finches © The Open University.

Audio 1: Heart rate monitoring of migrating geese © The Open University.

Audio 2: Satellite tagging of migrating bar-tailed godwits - from World on the Move Ep24 29.07.08 © BBC.

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