Addressing urgent conservation issues, such as the drastic declines of North American migratory birds, requires creative, evidence‐based, efficient, and collaborative approaches. The abundance of over 50% of monitored North American shorebird populations has declined by over 50% since 1980. To address these declines, we developed a partnership of scientists and practitioners called the Shorebird Science and Conservation Collec...

Beach-nesting birds rely on predictable conditions for successful breeding, yet the effects of climatic events and beach morphology on nest placement remain underexplored. We examine how beach morphology influences nest placement and breeding success of least terns ( Sterna antillarum ) and snowy plovers ( Anarhynchus nivosus ) at Barra del Estero de Punta Banda, Baja California. Nest abundance along the northern beach is stro...

Climate change has caused shifts in seasonally recurring biological events leading to the temporal decoupling of consumer–resource pairs, that is, phenological mismatching. Although mismatches often affect individual fitness, they do not invariably scale up to affect populations, making it difficult to assess the risk they pose. Individual variation may contribute to this inconsistency, with changes in resource availability an...

In this paper, we extend our understanding of the migration of Black-tailed Godwits ( Limosa limosa limosa ) by describing: (1) the orientation and geographic locations of individual migratory routes and (2) the spatial distribution of godwits across seasons and years. We accomplish this using satellite-tracking data from 36 adult godwits breeding in the 200-ha Haanmeer polder in The Netherlands, from 2015 to 2018. During both...

Long‐distance migratory flights are predicted to be associated with higher mortality rates when individuals encounter adverse weather conditions. However, directly connecting environmental conditions experienced in‐flight with the survival of migrants has proven difficult. We studied how the in‐flight mortality of 53 satellite‐tagged Black‐tailed Godwits ( Limosa limosa limosa ) during 132 crossings of the Sahara Desert, a maj...