Talk:Zugunruhe

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Use of the term

I am under the distinct impression that this term also applies to pre-migratory restlessness in the wild (including exercising and possibly changes to feeding and display patterns).

--Avimimus (talk) 21:17, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly! There is perhaps a clue to how the mis-statement has arisen here in this review http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/JFO/v042n02/p0131-p0161.pdf ( Bird-banding, 1971. Recent Literature) of Spring migratory restlessness in caged birds: a circadian rhythm. J. P. McMillan, S. A. Gauthreaux, Jr., and C. W. Helms. 1970. BioScience, 20 (23): 1259-1260.

They do not show that a bird will migrate every night in the wild, even if its energy reserves permit it to do so. There is at least one important difference between Zugunruhe and migration, and the authors' extraordinary reference to "migration in . . . captive birds" suggests that they do not appreciate it.—I. C. T. Nisbet.

I have modified the lead. Shyamal (talk) 02:27, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

Can someone add a pronunciation, for those of us who don’t speak German? —Frungi (talk) 02:45, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]