Shorebird use and mortality at a large Canadian prairie lake impacted by Botulism

Waterbirds

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-25

  Adams, Stephen G ^a   Conly, F Malcolm ^a   Gratto Trevor, Cheri L ^a   Cash, Kevin J ^a   Bollinger, Trent ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Botulism; Feeding ecology; Mortality; Prairie lakes; Saskatchewan; Shorebirds

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LAKE; MORTALITY; WADER;

CANADA; OLD WIVES LAKE; SASKATCHEWAN;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; ANSER; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS ALBA; CALIDRIS MINUTILLA; CALIDRIS PUSILLA; ENOPLOSUS ARMATUS; GALLIFORMES; LIMNODROMUS; LIMNODROMUS GRISEUS; LIMNODROMUS SCOLOPACEUS; MELANOLEUCA; RECURVIROSTRA AMERICANA; SCOLOPACIDAE; TRINGA; TRINGA FLAVIPES; TRINGA MELANOLEUCA;

EID: 0037687841     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2003)026[0013:suamaa]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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