Open almost any field guide and you will find information on the timing and location of breeding and migration for almost all species included. Although we are far from a complete understand of any of these phenomena, it seems that for a given species basic molt data are most often lacking. The life histories of all birds feature two major events, reproduction and molt, and many species of the temperate and polar zones add migration as a third major energetic and scheduling demand to their annual cycle.
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