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Hammer, filter or microphone: How does the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea use its bill to feed?

C. Kelly, Auteur ; C. Zöckler, Auteur ; B. Scampion, Auteur ; E. E. Syroechkovskiy, Auteur

Dans Wader Study (124(2) 2017)

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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