| Titre : | Wader Study 124(1) - April, 2017 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/04/2017 |
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Gerhard C. Cadee, Auteur
In this article, I introduce an unfinished manuscript on pair formation and polygamy in the Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus written by the late Jan Verwey based on studies he carried out in the Netherlands in the late 1920s and 1930s.
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Deborah M. Buehler, Auteur
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Leyla Ozkan, Auteur ;
Bayram Ali Yukari, Auteur ;
Ramazan Adanir, Auteur
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Bryan D. Watts, Auteur
The rufa subspecies of the Red Knot Calidris canutus rufa was elevated to threatened status by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in December 2014. This population uses beaches along the Atlantic Coast of North America for a final refue[...]
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Michel Devort, Auteur ;
Gilles Leray, Auteur ;
Yves Ferrand, Auteur
We develop a method to age Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus during autumn using outer tail feathers. This method was tested by also ageing birds through the presence/absence of the bursa of Fabricius. The pattern on the tip of the outer tail feat[...]
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Terje Lislevand, Auteur
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Julia Ryeland, Auteur ;
Matthew R. E. Symonds, Auteur ;
Michael A. Weston, Auteur
The morphology of the bill is an important aspect of many avian ecological and biological studies. Most studies report the straight line length of the bill; however, for birds with curved bills, this may underestimate the overall length. Here we[...]
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Mark A. Colwell, Auteur ;
Elizabeth J. Feucht, Auteur ;
Matt J. Lau, Auteur ;
David J. Orluck, Auteur ;
Sean E. Mcallister, Auteur ;
Amber N. Transou, Auteur
The Pacific coast population of the Snowy Plover Charadrius nivosus nivosus is listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, which requires demographic data to inform management directed at increasing the population. Accordingly, w[...]
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Oscar W. Johnson, Auteur ;
Pavel S. Tomkovich, Auteur ;
Ronald R. Porter, Auteur ;
Egor Y. Loktionov, Auteur ;
Roger H. Goodwill, Auteur
For the first time, we have tracked the annual migrations of Pacific Golden-Plovers nesting in northern Russia. We used geolocators to determine the timing and migration routes of four male plovers trapped at one site in SE Chukotka. Before leav[...]
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Willow B. English, Auteur ;
Eunbi Kwon, Auteur ;
Brett K. Sandercock, Auteur ;
David B. Lank, Auteur
We placed wire mesh predator exclosures around the nests of Red-necked Phalaropes Phalaropus lobatus at a tundra site outside of Nome, Alaska, in 2011 and 2012. Exclosures were made of 2.5 cm x 5.1 cm wire mesh and were approximately 0.8 m high,[...]
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Jimmy De Fouw, Auteur ;
Andrew W. Thorpe, Auteur ;
Roeland A. Bom, Auteur ;
Steven de Bie, Auteur ;
Kees Camphuysen, Auteur ;
Brian Etheridge, Auteur ;
Ward Hagemeijer, Auteur ;
Lenze Hofstee, Auteur ;
Theo Jager, Auteur ;
Leon Kelder, Auteur ;
Romke Kleefstra, Auteur ;
Marcel Kersten, Auteur ;
Szabolcs Nagy, Auteur ;
Raymond H. G. Klaassen, Auteur
Barr Al Hikman, a large intact coastal wetland in the Sultanate of Oman, is an important wintering site for migratory waterbirds in the Asian-East African Flyway. The last reported systematic survey of the area is from 1990. Here, we present res[...]
