Population estimates of waders on the non-estuarine coasts of the UK and the Isle of Man during the winter of 1997–98

Bird Study

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 22-32

  Rehfisch, Mark M ^a   Holloway, Steve J ^a   Austin, Graham E ^a  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arenaria interpres; Bar tailed Godwit; Calidris alba; Calidris maritima; Charadrius hiaticula; Curlew; Dunlin; Golden Plover; Grey Plover; Internationally important populations; Lapwing; Oystercatcher; Purple Sandpiper; Red Knot; Ringed Plover; Sanderling; Shorebirds; Turnstone; UK NEWS

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; OVERWINTERING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION ESTIMATION; WADER;

ISLE OF MAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADENOSTOMA SPARSIFOLIUM; ARENARIA INTERPRES; AVES; CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS ALBA; CALIDRIS ALPINA; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CALIDRIS MARITIMA; CHARADRIUS; CHARADRIUS HIATICULA; HAEMATOPUS; HAEMATOPUS OSTRALEGUS; LIMOSA; LIMOSA LAPPONICA; NUMENIUS; NUMENIUS ARQUATA; PLUVIALIS; PLUVIALIS APRICARIA; PLUVIALIS SQUATAROLA; SCOLOPACIDAE; TRINGA; TRINGA TOTANUS; VANELLUS; VANELLUS VANELLUS;

EID: 0037347764     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650309461286     Document Type: Article

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