Ecological barriers shaping fuel stores in barn swallows Hirundo rustica following the central and western Mediterranean flyways

By D. Rubolini, Andrea Pastor, A. Pilastro, F. Spina. 2002

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Flexibility in daily travel routines causes regional variation in bird migration speed (2008, background): “The mixed strategy of adopting both stopover periods and a fly-and-forage migration behaviour on travelling days in Europe may, however, serve to accumulate surplus energy resources that will be used as fuel for the impending passage of the Sahara (Rubolini et al. 2002).”
Protandry and sexual dimorphism in trans-Saharan migratory birds (2004, background): “The Palearctic-African migration system is among the most intensively investigated models for the study of migration strategies, both from ecological and ecophysiological perspectives (Biebach, 1990; Biebach et al., 2000; Jenni et al., 2000; Moreau, 1972; Rubolini et al., 2002; Schwilch et al., 2002”
The strategy of fly-and-forage migration, illustrated for the osprey (Pandion haliaetus) (2007, background): “Rubolini et al. (2002) demonstrated that Communicated by W. Wiltschko R. Strandberg (*) : T. Alerstam Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Ecology Building, SE-22362 Lund, Sweden e-mail: Roine.Strandberg@zooekol.lu.se barn swallows (Hirundo rustica), for the crossing of the Mediterranean…”
Long-distance migration: evolution and determinants (2003, background): “It has been suggested that certain aerial foragers, such as swallows, might feed while migrating, but also they seem to deposit fuel stores before flights as other birds do (Pilastro and Magnani 1997, Rubolini et al. 2002).”