Spring stopover ecology of migrant Western Sandpipers

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 456-467

  Warnock, Nils ^a,b,e   Bishop, Mary Anne ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Body condition; Calidris mauri; Migration; Pacific Flyway; Radiotelemetry; Shorebirds; Western Sandpiper

Indexed keywords

AVES; CALIDRIS MAURI; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 0031927082     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369711     Document Type: Article

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