| Titre : | Wader Study 124(2) - 2017 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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C. Carneiro, Auteur ;
T. G. Gunnarsson, Auteur ;
J. A. Alves, Auteur
Currently, West African Bloody Cockles Senilia senilis are found almost everywhere along the west side of Baie d’Aouatif, in the Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania. The authors describe how Whimbrels, typical crab eaters, feed on these large bivalves.
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J. B. Buchanan, Auteur
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M. A. Colwell, Auteur ;
E. J. Feucht, Auteur ;
S. E. McAllister, Auteur ;
A. N. Transou, Auteur
The authors report about the oldest Snowy Plover on record. Over his lifetime, OR:YR tended 148 eggs in 58 nests, and hatched 31 chicks, of which 13 fledged (i.e., reached 28 days of age)!
Article
T. Cooney, Auteur
This paper reports about a Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus with a remarkably long bill, observed feeding on mudflats at North Bull Island (53.3705° N, 6.1440° W) in Dublin Bay, Ireland.
Article
J. B. Buchanan, Auteur
The author describes post-breeding agonistic or courtship behavior and copulation at Totten Inlet, a site in western Washington, he visited once every 5-day period during the month of September for a 18-year period (1999 through 2016).
Article
M. van der Velde, Auteur ;
O. Haddrath, Auteur ;
Y. I. Verkuil, Auteur ;
A. J. Baker, Auteur ;
T. Piersma, Auteur
Determining the sex of individuals through molecular methods is an increasingly important research tool, particularly for studies of sexually monomorphic species. However, currently available primer sets to molecularly sex birds are known to cau[...]
Article
B. D. Watts, Auteur ;
F. M. Smith, Auteur ;
B. R. Truitt, Auteur
Many Arctic-breeding shorebirds utilize terminal spring staging areas that are strategically positioned within mid-temperate latitudes. Because these staging areas represent final refueling opportunities and have a direct link to the breeding gr[...]
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J. R. Wilson, Auteur ;
P. S. Tomkovich, Auteur
Based on available literature, we present an account of the spring migration through N Europe of Red Knots Calidris canutus of the subspecies canutus heading for breeding grounds in Siberia and islandica heading for N Greenland and NE Canada. Us[...]
Article
T. van Nus, Auteur
Since the first pair of Black Oystercatchers Haematopus bachmani was recorded breeding on Middleton Island, Alaska, in 1976, the island has become one of the species’ key nesting areas. I conducted a survey of the whole island in July 2016and fo[...]
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P. F. Battley, Auteur ;
J. R. Conklin, Auteur
While the principal use of light-recording geolocators is to determine geographical locations of migratory birds, supplementary wetness data have been used to refine estimates of minimum flight duration, on the assumption that a wet logger indic[...]
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C. Kelly, Auteur ;
C. Zöckler, Auteur ;
B. Scampion, Auteur ;
E. E. Syroechkovskiy, Auteur
The remarkable and unique bill-shape of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea raises the question as to why such a structure might have evolved. The morphology of the bill was described in detail by Burton (1971) but at the time there was[...]
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Loss of habitat leads to loss of birds: Reflections on the Jiangsu, China, coastal development plans
T. Piersma, Auteur ;
Y.-C. Chan, Auteur ;
T. Mu, Auteur ;
C. J. Hassell, Auteur ;
D. S. Melville, Auteur ;
H.-B. Peng, Auteur ;
Z. Ma, Auteur ;
Z. Zhang, Auteur ;
D. S. Wilcove, Auteur
Prompted by the realization that parts of the coast of southern Jiangsu Province, China, are under threat of reclamation, we here summarize evidence that loss of intertidal habitats around the Yellow Sea and at other parts along the Chinese and [...]
