RELEVANT LITERATURE

Bennun, L., Matiku, P., Mulwa, R., Mwangi, S. and Buckley, P., 2005. Monitoring Important Bird Areas in Africa: towards a sustainable and scaleable system. Biodiversity & Conservation, 14(11), pp.2575-2590.

Beresford, A.E., Buchanan, G.M., Donald, P.F., Butchart, S.H.M., Fishpool, L.D.C. and Rondinini, C., 2011. Poor overlap between the distribution of protected areas and globally threatened birds in Africa. Animal Conservation, 14(2), pp.99-107.

Bridge, E.S., Thorup, K., Bowlin, M.S., Chilson, P.B., Diehl, R.H., Fléron, R.W., Hartl, P., Kays, R., Kelly, J.F., Robinson, W.D. and Wikelski, M., 2011. Technology on the move: recent and forthcoming innovations for tracking migratory birds. BioScience, 61(9), pp.689-698.

Finch, T., Saunders, P., Avilés, J.M., Bermejo, A., Catry, I., la Puente, J., Emmenegger, T., Mardega, I., Mayet, P., Parejo, D. and Račinskis, E., 2015. A pan‐European, multipopulation assessment of migratory connectivity in a near‐threatened migrant bird. Diversity and Distributions, 21(9), pp.1051-1062.

Frumkin, R., Pinshow, B. and Kleinhaus, S., 1995. A review of bird migration over Israel. Journal für Ornithologie, 136(2), pp.127-147.

Gerkmann, B. and Meyburg, B.U., 2009. Habitats used by Lesser Spotted Eagles (Aquila pomarina) during migration and wintering as revealed by Satellite tracking and remote sensing Ecol. Raptors. Owls, 6, pp.87-102.

Gordo, O., Brotons, L., Ferrer, X. and Comas, P., 2005. Do changes in climate patterns in wintering areas affect the timing of the spring arrival of trans‐Saharan migrant birds?. Global change biology, 11(1), pp.12-21.

Kovacs, A., Barov, B., Orhun, C. and Gallo-Orsi, U., 2008. International species action plan for the European roller Coracias garrulus garrulus. MME/BirdLife Hungay and BirdLife International for the European Commission.

Kirby, J.S., Stattersfield, A.J., Butchart, S.H., Evans, M.I., Grimmett, R.F., Jones, V.R., O'Sullivan, J., Tucker, G.M. and Newton, I., 2008. Key conservation issues for migratory land-and waterbird species on the world's major flyways. Bird Conservation International, 18(1), p.S49.

Leshem, Y and Yom Tov, 1998. Routes of migrating soaring birds. Ibis, 140(1), pp.41-52. Meyburg, B.U., Paillat, P. and Meyburg, C., 2003. Migration routes of Steppe Eagles between

Asia and Africa: a study by means of satellite telemetry. The Condor, 105(2), pp.219-227. Rubolini, D., Spina, F. and Saino, N., 2005. Correlates of timing of spring migration in birds: a

comparative study of trans‐Saharan migrants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 85(2), pp.199-210.

Runge, C.A., Watson, J.E., Butchart, S.H., Hanson, J.O., Possingham, H.P. and Fuller, R.A., 2015. Protected areas and global conservation of migratory birds. Science, 350(6265), pp.1255-1258.

Saino, N., Rubolini, D., Jonzén, N., Ergon, T., Montemaggiori, A., Stenseth, N.C. and Spina, F., 2007. Temperature and rainfall anomalies in Africa predict timing of spring migration in trans-Saharan migratory birds. Climate research 35(1), p.123.

Salewski, V. and Jones, P., 2006. Palearctic passerines in Afrotropical environments: a review. Journal of Ornithology, 147(2), pp.192-201.

Sanderson, F.J., Donald, P.F., Pain, D.J., Burfield, I.J. and Van Bommel, F.P., 2006. Long-term population declines in Afro-Palearctic migrant birds. Biological conservation, 131(1), pp.93-105.

Shamoun‐Baranes, J., Van Loon, E., Alon, D., Alpert, P., Yom‐Tov, Y. and Leshem, Y., 2006. Is there a connection between weather at departure sites, onset of migration and timing of soaring‐bird autumn migration in Israel?. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 15(6), pp.541-552.

Simmons, R.E., Barnard, P., Dean, W.R.J., Midgley, G.F., Thuiller, W. and Hughes, G., 2004. Climate change and birds: perspectives and prospects from southern Africa. Ostrich-Journal of African Ornithology, 75(4), pp.295-308.

Taylor, M., Peacock, F. and Wanless, R.M., 2014. The Eskom red data book of birds of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. BirdLife South Africa, Johannesburg.

Sinclair, A.R.E., 1978. Factors affecting the food supply and breeding season of resident birds and movements of Palaearctic migrants in a tropical African savannah. Ibis, 120(4), pp.480-497.

Urbano, F., Cagnacci, F., Calenge, C., Dettki, H., Cameron, A. and Neteler, M., 2010. Wildlife tracking data management: a new vision. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 365(1550), pp.2177-2185.