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Index 1o/o criterium 28, 33 133-139, 160, 161, 165, 167, 180, 192, 201, broad-billed sandpiper 244 Actitis hypoleucos, see also common sandpiper 29 202,205,216,224,233,265,280,281,293, brood patch 242, 252, 279 Actitis macularia, see also spotted sandpiper 286 296, 318, 328, 344 brood, of shellfish 23, 231, 236-239, 242, 252, adultery 283 Bay of Dakhla 12 257,258,273,279,287,289,293,295-298,334 AEWA, see African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement Bay of Fundy 12, 13, 15, 224 brooding, of chickens 242, 260, 296 African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement 342 Belgium 11, 233 Briinnich 27 air speed 100 benthic fauna 122, 124, 125, 323, 330, 332, 336 Buccinum undatum, see also whelk 329 Alaska SO, 54, 105, 144, 252, 273, 277 Berg River Estuary 125 buffer hypothesis 269 algae 11, 19, 20, 73, 179, 329, 330 Bijag6s Archipel 95, 124, 125, 137 bullfinch 169 ambient temperature 129, 155, 157, 208, 255, bill length 188, 195, 201, 202, 203, 225 Burry Inlet 313, 333 256,260 bill shapes 85 butterfly flight 281 Ameland 210, 340 biodiversity 334, 335, 342 calcium 17, 107, 156, 162, 173, 184, 188, 193 American black brent goose 29 biomass 21, 24, 122, 170, 175-177, 195,209-211, calcium, protective layer 184, 192 American golden plover 261 213,227,228,229,301,319,321,323,330, Calidris alba, see also sanderling 28, 46 American razor clam 21 332, 333 Calidris alpina, see also dunlin 28, SO amphipod, see also Corophium volutator 21-24, Black Sea 13, 68 Calidris canutus, see also red knot 28, 31, 44 119, 159, 166, 172, 173, 177, 181-184, 196, black-bellied brent goose 28, 29 Calidris ferruginea, see also curlew sandpiper 28, 197, 204, 210-214, 219, 223, 224, 228, 229, blackbird 241 48 265,266,332,333 blackcap 145 Calidris maritima, see also purple sandpiper 28, Anadara senilis, see also giant bloody cockle 176 black-headed gull81, 204, 205, 214, 216, 223, 53 Anas actua, see also pintail 79 224, 227 Calidris minuta, see also little stint 28, 52 Anas clypeata, see also shoveler 79 black-tailed godwit 54, 55, 89, 137, 233, 264, camouflage 67, 89, 90, 244, 248, 260 Anas crecca, see also teal 79 265, 293 Canada 12, 13, 31, 40, 41, 43, 44, 53, 58, 97, Anas penelope, see also wigeon 28 bladderwrack seaweed 24 98, 112, 131, 132, 143, 144, 173, 174 Anas platyrhynchos, see also mallard 28 body mass 30, 89, 93, 116, 203, 253, 257, 338 cannon net 30, 31, 160, 161 anatomy 231, 279 benthic animals 173, 174, 185 canvasback 284 ancestral wader 288, 289 food consumption 156, 157, 161, 163, 165, 193 Cape Sterlegova 272, 273 Anser brachyrhynchus, see also pink-footed goose migration 101, 105, 106 Carcinus maenas, see also common shore crab 338 winter 168, 169 20,148,185,204 anti-fouling 21, 329 body size 21, 29, 31, 34, 50, 136, 180, 181, 201, Cardium, see also cockle 21 Araneae 272 202,293 career planning 299 Arctic fox 120, 244, 245, 273, 314, 316 body temperature 89, 127, 131, 156, 260 carrying capacity 209, 213, 307, 321, 340 Arctic tern 82, 83, 104, 118, 192, 264 bomb calorimeter 173 Casamance 12 Arenaria interpres interpres, see also (ruddy) turn­ Bonn Convention 342, 343 Cerastoderma edule, see also cockle 20, 196, 198, stone 29, 33 border incident 222 200,212,216,336 Arenicola marina, see also lugworm 20, 177, brackish water 7 4 Chad 60 197,212 Branta bemicla bernie/a, see also (black-bellied) chameleon shrimp 226 ash-free dry meat 163 brent goose 28, 29 Charadrius alexandrinus, see also kentish plover ash-free dry weight 173 Branta leucopsis, see also barnacle goose 28, 29 28,41 Asian Wetland Bureau 342 Branta bemicla hrota, see also (white-bellied) Charadrius apricaria, see also golden plover 27 Asiatic golden plover 145 brent goose 28, 29 Charadrius hiaticula, see also ringed plover 27, aspect ratio 98 Branta bemicla nigricans, see also (American 28,31,40 Australia 46, 49, 64, 96, 159, 342, 344 black) brent goose 28, 29 Charadrius melodus, see also piping plover 245 avocet38,39, 84, 85,88,90,93, 121,209,221, bream 191 Charadrius morinellus, see also dotterel 286 224-226,233,236,241,244,249,250,256, breeding area 31, 37, 45, 49, 54, 56, 63, 73, 82, Charadrius semipalmatus, see also semipalmated 261,265,266,268,269,293 90, 97, 101, 135, 136, 137, 140, 141, 143, plover 284 Aythya americana, see also redhead 284 145,236,237,274,299,302,309,313,339 chick 37-39, 43-83, 120, 121, 139, 140, 156, Aythya valisineria, see also canvasback 284 arctic 112 236-245, 250, 255-307, 313-320 Aythya ferina, see also pochard 284 arrival and departure in 276, 277 adoption 256, 260, 288, 289 Aythya fuligula, see also tufted duck 284 boreal96 brooding 242, 260, 296 Baie d' Arguin 208 disturbance in 41, 83, 245, 338 creche 75, 261, 265 Balgzand 24, 25, 176, 177, 335 breeding extramarital young 286 Baltic Sea 13, 36, 50, 68, 73, 75, 77, 145, 174, attempt 231, 232, 236, 237, 273, 297, 299 food provision 264 176,266 density 316 growing conditions 237, 239, 256, 257, 260, Baltic tellin 20-22, 24, 25, 86, 155, 163, 166, habitat 250, 264, 266, 267, 309, 322, 339 268, 272, 279 173-176, 183-189, 191, 195, 197, 202, 210, season 36-56, 66-82, 96, 98, 109, 133, 134, oystercatcher 257, 266, 284, 302 211,213,217,221,224,229,266,319,336 144,231,237,253,256,261,264-273,276, predation 258, 261, 264, 268, 272, 273, 276, depth distribution 184, 188, 189 278,284,286,293,295,297,300,305,308, 300 Bancd'Arguin 11, 12, 14, 95, 99,102,104-108, 310, 312, 314, 317, 321-325, 337-339 production 239, 307, 313, 320 113, 116, 122, 124, 132, 133, 136-139, 161, territory 231, 242, 248, 257, 268, 269, 272, China 12, 38, 342, 344 165,168,176,180,182,201,204,208,212, 295,297,313,317,320,323 CITES 342 228,300,321,333,342 timing of 274, 276, 278 climate 12, 13, 119, 122, 124, 127, 133, 136, barbary falcon 124 brent goose 20, 33, 72, 73, 88, 89, 96, 98, 104, 145,177,260,308,339,342,344 barn owl257 113, 118, 121, 140, 144, 145, 309, 310, change 145, 339 barn swallow 280, 284 314-316, 337, 344 club birds 270, 272, 301, 302, 305, 313, 317 barnacle goose 28, 73, 145, 260, 277 brent goose, American black 29 clutch 240-244, 248, 256, 257, 265, 272-278, barnacles 11, 67, 151, 329 brent goose, black-bellied 29 283,284,293,295-297 Barrow, Alaska 252, 273, 277 brent goose, white-bellied 29, 72 number of 232 bar-tailed godwit 31, 33, 35, 54, 55, 85, 93, 97, brine shrimp 13 renesting 273, 274, 287, 295 100, 105, 106, 108, 112, 116, 125, 126, Brittany 12, 36, 40, 74 size 53, 241, 242, 256, 269, 272, 278, 298, 322 363 cockle 21, 24, 25, 37, 45, 86, 119, 149, 150, departure direction 109, 112, 117 intake 129, 131, 132, 154, 155, 156, 255, 278 152, 153, 159, 162, 164-166, 169, 172-177, depth distribution 188 requirements 119, 121, 154, 156, 157, 162, 184, 185, 191-200, 204, 205, 210-217, 229, desert fox 124 166, 181, 193, 335 265, 319-324, 333-337, 343 deserting plover 296 reserves 119, 139, 140 bed24, 152,164,216,323,335,336 desertion 296, 297, 305 stores 117, 134, 136, 169, 338 biomass 211 deuterium 101 use 100, 101, 127, 134 fishery 335, 336 dieldrin 329 England 14, 17, 30, 31, 50, 53, 64, 72, 75, 77, common goby 162, 186 digestion 88, 131 81,161,174,177,210,221,274,276,309, common gull 81, 204, 216, 245, 248 rate of 163, 164 313,339,343 common pochard 284 digestive heat 131 Ensis directus, see also American razor clam 21 common salt marsh grass 20, 339 digestive tract 131, 155, 157, 162 Enteromorpha 11 common sandpiper 27, 34, 65, 92, 96, 134, 140, discharge 20, 329, 330, 332, 333 environmental conditions 89 161,180,233,265,293 display 50, 56, 77, 93, 131, 245, 281-284, 294, environmental organisations 341, 344 common sea-lavender 20 295,301 Eskimo curlew 105, 145, 337 common shelduck, see also shelduck 74, 75 distribution 17, 22, 23, 30, 34, 38, 66, 81, 82, estuary 11, 12, 23, 122, 124, 125, 145, 157, 174, common shore crab 20, 21, 23-25, 119, 148-150, 89, 102, 140, 149, 170-172, 181, 182, 197, 177,204,210,212,221,229-301,307,308, 162, 169, 173, 184, 186, 187, 191, 192, 204, 237,287,305,307,310,312,325 312, 313, 318, 321, 325, 327-330 211,224,336 age-related 205 Eurasia 28, 95, 96 common snipe 34, 85 of birds 205, 213, 215, 224, 236, 268, 269, Eurasian dotterel, see also dotterel 286 common tern 82, 83, 104, 264 271,273 Eurasian golden plover, see also golden plover compass disturbance 86, 180, 183, 223, 240, 245, 253, 261 earth magnetic 110 260,308,324 European Court of Justice 343 inclination 112 in the breeding area 315 Everglades 342 polarisation 110, 114 by birds of prey 160 evolution 29, 99, 145, 236, 268, 287-289, 293, star 110, 113, 114, 117 distance 337, 338 296, 311, 329 sun 110 on high tide roosts 160 Exe estuary 177, 204, 210, 300, 301, 312, 313, competition 25, 137, 181, 202, 224, 260, 268, of humans 83 320, 321 280,296,302,307-317,320,323,324,333, divorce 304, 305 exploration drilling 308 337, 338 Djoudj area 342 exposure time 16, 17, 110, 157, 165, 169, 340 between species 24, 224 DNA 31, 33, 141 extra pair behaviour 285 for food 137, 202, 324, 337 fingerprinting 285, 298 fat 15, 18, 30, 45, 88, 101, 108, 109, 117, 138, for partners 236 dodo 337 139, 156, 161, 191, 245, 266 for the best sites 136, 302 Dollard estuary 15, 20, 39, 60, 79, 329, 330, breakdown 107 in the winter 338 332,333 content 173 on the breeding grounds 316 dominance 177, 204, 301, 303, 304, 312 stores in winter 133 condition 90, 119, 137, 151, 173-176, 184-186, dotterel 281 stores 30, 45, 99, 100, 105, 106, 116, 125, 200,241,313-315,321,338 double clutching 295, 296 132-137, 145, 157, 164, 165, 169, 256, 317, cones 87 doubly labelled water 101 320 consumption 98, 101, 128, 136, 155, 164, 165, drilling rig 341 fat-free tissue 100, 108 166,228,237,252,255,260
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    Cotinga 26 First record of Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus in Peru and other observations of Nearctic waders at the Virilla estuary Nathan R. Senner Received 6 February 2006; final revision accepted 21 March 2006 Cotinga 26(2006): 39–42 Hay poca información sobre las rutas de migración y el uso de los sitios de la costa peruana por chorlos nearcticos. En el fin de agosto 2004 yo reconocí el estuario de Virilla en el dpto. Piura en el noroeste de Peru para identificar los sitios de descanso para los Limosa haemastica en su ruta de migración al sur y aprender más sobre la migración de chorlos nearcticos en Peru. En Virilla yo observí más de 2.000 individuales de 23 especios de chorlos nearcticos y el primer registro de Numenius americanus de Peru, la concentración más grande de Limosa fedoa en Peru, y una concentración excepcional de Limosa haemastica. La combinación de esas observaciones y los resultados de un estudio anterior en el invierno boreal sugiere la posibilidad que Virilla sea muy importante para chorlos nearcticos en Peru. Las observaciones, también, demuestren la necesidad hacer más estudios en la costa peruana durante el año entero, no solemente durante el punto máximo de la migración de chorlos entre septiembre y noviembre. Shorebirds are poorly known in Peru away from bordered for a few hundred metres by sand and established study sites such as Paracas reserve, gravel before low bluffs rise c.30 m. Very little dpto. Ica, and those close to metropolitan areas vegetation grows here, although cows, goats and frequented by visiting birdwatchers and tour pigs owned by Parachique residents graze the area.
  • The Sanderling on Wilson's Promontory by Roy P

    The Sanderling on Wilson's Promontory by Roy P

    Vol. 3 OCTOBER 31, 1970 No.8 The Sanderling on Wilson's Promontory by Roy P. Cooper*, Melbourne Although overseas books on ornithology have described the Sanderling, Calidris alba, as being "common on almost every ocean beach in the world", this does not apply, from the published records, to Australia. On this continent they are classed as rare species and they appear to return each year to a favourite area, where they may be seen in small flocks varying from five to two hundred birds. The main areas are at Boat Harbour, south of Sydney; several places from Port Phillip to Portland, in western Victoria : Goolwa Beach (200 birds) and at Pondalowie Bay in South Australia; also recorded in Western Australia and in Queensland. In the Australian Bird W ate her, 3:243, some of the observations recorded by the team who is carrying out the Survey of the Birds of Wilson's Promontory, were published, revealing the occurrence of the Sanderling in that area; the first records for eastern Victoria. This distribution is somewhat similar to that of the nesting groups. An Arctic breeder, the Sanderling nests within the Arctic Circle, in the tundra climatic zone. Although this zone extends around the Arctic Ocean, in northern Canada, Greenland, Europe and Asia, and the bird nests "within a mile or two of the coast", it appears to breed in very selected areas, and there are large gaps between the groups. It breeds on some of the Arctic islands of Canada; also along the north-western and north-eastern coasts of Greenland; in Spitsbergen; and in Siberia on Taymyr Peninsula, New Siberian Islands and Liakof Island.
  • Black-Tailed Godwits in West African Winter Staging Areas

    Black-Tailed Godwits in West African Winter Staging Areas

    Alterra is part of the international expertise organisation Wageningen UR (University & Research centre). Our mission is ‘To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life’. Within Wageningen UR, nine research institutes – both specialised and applied – have joined forces with Wageningen University and Van Hall Larenstein University of Black-tailed Godwits in West African winter Applied Sciences to help answer the most important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment. With approximately 40 locations (in the Netherlands, Brazil and China), 6,500 members of staff and 10,000 students, Wageningen UR is one of the leading organisations in its domain worldwide. The integral approach to problems and the cooperation between the exact sciences and the technological and social disciplines are at the heart of the staging areas Wageningen Approach. Alterra is the research institute for our green living environment. We offer a combination of practical and scientific Habitat use and hunting-related mortality research in a multitude of disciplines related to the green world around us and the sustainable use of our living environment, such as flora and fauna, soil, water, the environment, geo-information and remote sensing, landscape and spatial planning, man and society. Alterra Report 2058 ISSN 1566-7197 More information: www.alterra.wur.nl/uk David Kleijn, Jan van der Kamp, Hamilton Monteiro, Idrissa Ndiaye, Eddy Wymenga and Leo Zwarts Black-tailed Godwits in West African winter staging areas Commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Food safety, Direction Nature Conservation. Carried out in the framework of project BO-10-003-002.