Seasonal variation in diurnal and nocturnal distributions of nonbreeding shorebirds at North Humboldt Bay, California

Condor

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 196-207

  Dodd, Sarah L ^a,b   Colwell, Mark A ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Woodland Farm   (United States)

Author keywords

Humboldt Bay; nocturnal foraging; nonbreeding distributions; seasonal variation; shorebirds

Indexed keywords

AVES; CATOPTROPHORUS SEMIPALMATUS; CHARADRII; CHARADRIIFORMES; CHARADRIUS SEMIPALMATUS; LIMNODROMUS; LIMNODROMUS GRISEUS; LIMNODROMUS SCOLOPACEUS; LIMOSA FEDOA; PLUVIALIS SQUATAROLA; RECURVIROSTRA AMERICANA; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 0029820866     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369137     Document Type: Article

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