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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Calidris alba"”.
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Impacts of Human Disturbance on the Behavior of Sanderlings on the Georgia Coast
… of humans altered the behavior of Sanderlings (Calidris alba), (2) to quantify the impacts of staged human encounters on Sanderlings, and (3) to assess whether Sanderlings on high-disturbance beaches habituate to the presence of humans. The study was conducted on two Georgia barrier islands with …
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DISCRIMINATING OVERWINTERING ORIGIN AND MIGRATORY CONNECTIVITY IN A LONG-DISTANCE MIGRATORY SHOREBIRD STAGING IN THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES
… a northward migratory population of Sanderling (Calidris alba) in the Western Hemisphere. I examined geographic variation in feather isotope values from a northern population of Sanderling staging at Chaplin Lake, Saskatchewan over seven years and compared these to feathers collected at three …
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Effects of human disturbance on the behavior and energetics of nonbreeding sanderlings
… and free-ranging nonbreeding sanderlings (Calidris alba). I exposed 24 captive sanderlings to a 5-min disturbance event during each of 10 diurnal hours over two 4-d trials. The metabolizable energy of food ingested was determined for each bird daily. Total body electrical conductivity and …
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Aspects of the behaviour and ecology of White-fronted Sandplovers and Sanderlings on a South African sandy beach
… Charadrius marginatus and the Sanderling Calidris alba, which are identified in Chapter l as being dominant components of the southwestern Cape sandy shore avian population. Chapter 3 reports on the spatial and temporal use of the intertidal habitat by foraging White-fronted Sandplovers …