Chapter 1 Authors

Simeon Lisovski1,!, Roland Neumann2, Markus P. Ahola3, Tomas Albrecht4,5, Silke Bauer1, Jaroslav Cepak6, Thord Fransson2, Sven Jakobsson7, Tuomo Jaakkonen8, Petr Klvana6, Cecilia Kullberg7, Toni Laaksonen8,9, Benjamin Metzger11, Pavel Munclinger5, Markus Piha12, Peter Shurulinkov13, Robert Stach14, Kare Ström15, William Velmala9, Martins Briedis1

1 Swiss Ornithological Institute, Separtment of Bird Migration, Seerose 1, CH-6204 Sempach, Switzerland. 2 18198 Stäbelow, Germany. 3 Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden. 4 Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic. 5 Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. 6 Bird Ringing Station, National Museum Praha, Prague, Czech Republic. 7 Department of Zoology, Stockholm, Sweden. 8 Ecology and Genetics Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. 9 Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. 10 Natural Resources Institute Finland, Turku, Finland. 11 Lisbon, Portugal. 12 Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland. 13 National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria. 14 Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. 15 Kungälv, Sweden.

! Corresponding author: Simeon Lisovski, simeon.lisovski@gmail.com