Waterbird use of bayland wetlands in the San Francisco Bay Estuary: Movements of Long-billed Dowitchers during the winter

Waterbirds

Volumn 25, Issue SPECIAL PUBL.2, 2002, Pages 93-105

  Takekawa, John Y ^a   Warnock, Nils ^b   Martinelli, Greg M ^a,c   Miles, A Keith ^a   Tsao, Danika C ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Pt Reyes Bird Observatory   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Limnodromus scolopaceus; Long billed Dowitcher; Radio telemetry; San Francisco Bay; Wintering ecology

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT USE; MOVEMENT; OVERWINTERING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; WATERFOWL; WETLAND;

UNITED STATES;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; ANSER; AVES; CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS ALPINA; CALIDRIS MAURI; HESPERIS; HIMANTOPUS; HIMANTOPUS MEXICANUS; LIMNODROMUS; LIMNODROMUS SCOLOPACEUS; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 0036941913     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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