Ecology and management of migrant shorebirds in the playa lakes region of Texas

Wildlife Monographs

Volumn , Issue 140, 1998, Pages 1-43

  Davis, Craig A ^a,b   Smith, Loren M ^b  

^a Platte River Whooping Crane Trust   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American avocet; Feeding ecology; Habitat selection; Least sandpiper; Long billed dowitcher; Playa lakes region; Shorebirds; Stopover site; Texas; Western sandpiper

Indexed keywords

AVES; CALIDRIS HIMANTOPUS; CALIDRIS MAURI; CALIDRIS MINUTILLA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CONCHOSTRACA; CORIXIDAE; HIMANTOPUS; HIRUDINIDA; HYDROPHILIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; LIMNODROMUS SCOLOPACEUS; NUMENIUS AMERICANUS; PHALAROPUS TRICOLOR; PLANORBIDAE; RECURVIROSTRA AMERICANA; SCOLOPACIDAE; TRINGA; TRINGA FLAVIPES;

EID: 0002402244     PISSN: 00840173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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