Factors affecting parental behavior in Semipalmated Plovers

Auk

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 166-174

  Sullivan Blanken, Michèle ^a,b   Nol, Erica ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROODING BEHAVIOUR; COASTAL HABITAT; INLAND HABITAT; PARENTAL CARE; SEMIPALMATED FLOVER;

CANADA; CHURCHILL; MANITOBA;

CHARADRIUS SEMIPALMATUS;

EID: 0344015763     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089121     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. ASHKENAZIE, S., AND U. SAFRIEL. 1979. Time-energy budget of the Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla at Barrow, Alaska. Ecology 60:783-799.
2. BAKER, M. C. 1977. Shorebird food habits in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Condor 79:56-62.
3. BEINTEMA, A. J., AND G. H. VISSER. 1989. The effect of weather on time budgets and development of chicks of meadow birds. Ardea 77:181-192.
4. BERGSTROM, P. W. 1986. Daylight incubation sex roles in Wilson's Plover. Condor 88:113-155.
5. BRUNTON, D. H. 1988a. Energy expenditure in reproductive effort of male and female Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus). Auk 105:553-564.
6. BRUNTON, D. H. 1988b. Sexual differences in reproductive effort: Time-activity budgets of monogamous Killdeer, Charadrius vociferus. Animal Behaviour 36:705-717.
7. BYRKJEDAL, I. 1985. Time-activity budget for breeding Greater Golden-Plovers in Norwegian Mountains. Wilson Bulletin 97:486-501.
8. CAIRNS, W. E. 1982. Biology and behavior of breeding Piping Plovers. Wilson Bulletin 94:531-545.
9. CARTAR, R. V., AND R. D. MONTGOMERIE. 1987. Day-to-day variation in nest attentiveness of White-rumped Sandpipers. Condor 89:252-260.
10. CRAMP, S., AND K. E. L. SIMMONS. 1983. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
11. GIBSON, F. 1978. Ecological aspects of the time budget of the American Avocet. American Midland Naturalist 99:65-82.
12. GOSLER, A. G., J. J. D. GREENWOOD, AND C. PERRINS. 1995. Predation risk and the cost of being fat. Nature 377:621-623.
13. GRATTO, C. L., AND F. COOKE. 1987. Geographic variation in the breeding biology of the Semipalmated Sandpiper. Ornis Scandinavica 18: 233-235.
14. GRATTO-TREVOR, C. L. 1991. Parental care in Semipalmated Sandpipers Calidris pusilla: Brood desertion by females. Ibis 133:394-399.
15. METCALFE, N. B. 1984. The effects of habitat on the vigilance of shorebirds: Is visibility important? Animal Behaviour 32:981-985.
16. MICHAUD, G., AND J. FERRON. 1990. Sélection des proies par quatre espèces d'oiseaux limicoles (Charadrii) de passage dans l'estuaire du Saint-Laurent lors de la migration vers le sud. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68:1154-1162.
17. MILLER, E. H. 1985. Parental behavior in the Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla). Canadian Journal of Zoology 63:1593-1601.
18. MUNDAHL, J. T. 1982. Role specialization in the parental and territorial behavior of the Killdeer. Wilson Bulletin 94:515-530.
19. NAPOLITANO, G. E., R. G. ACKMAN, AND C. C. PARRISH. 1992. Lipids and lipophilic pollutants in three species of migratory shorebirds and their food in Shepody Bay (Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick). Lipids 27:785-790.
20. NOL, E. 1980. Factors affecting the nesting success of the Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) on Long Point, Ontario. M.S. thesis, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
21. NOL, E. 1985. Sex roles in the American Oystercatcher. Behaviour 46:232-260.
22. NOL, E., M. SULLIVAN BLANKEN, AND L. FLYNN. 1997. Sources of variation in clutch size, egg size and clutch completion dates of Semipalmated Plovers in Churchill, Manitoba. Condor 99:389-396.
23. PIENKOWSKI, M. W. 1984. Breeding biology and population dynamics of Ringed Plovers Charadrius hiaticula in Britain and Greenland: Nest-predation as a possible factor limiting distribution and timing of breeding. Journal of Zoology (London) 202:83-114.
24. RIPPIN ARMSTRONG, A., AND E. NOL. 1993. Spacing behavior and reproductive ecology of the Semipalmated Plover at Churchill, Manitoba. Wilson Bulletin 105:455-464.
25. ROBERT, M., AND R. MCNEIL. 1989. Comparative day and night feeding strategies of shorebird species in a tropical environment. Ibis 131:69-79.
26. SKAGEN, S. K., AND H. D. OMAN. 1996. Dietary flexibiliity of shorebirds in the Western Hemisphere. Canadian Field-Naturalist 110:419-444.
27. SULLIVAN BLANKEN, M. 1996. Egg and clutch-size variability and parental behaviour in the Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus) at Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. M.S. thesis, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.
28. SUTTON, G. M., AND D. F. PARMELEE. 1955. Breeding of the Semipalmated Plover on Baffin Island. Bird-Banding 26:137-147.
29. SZEKELY, T., AND T. D. WILLIAMS. 1995. Costs and benefits of brood desertion in female Kentish Plovers, Charadrius alexandrinus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 37:155-161.
30. TEATHER, K., AND E. NOL. 1997. Mixed sexual dimorphism in Semipalmated Plovers. Condor 99: 803-806.
31. THIBAULT, M., AND R. MCNEIL. 1995. Day-and night-time parental investment by incubating Wilson's Plovers in a tropical environment. Canadian Journal of Zoology 73:879-886.
32. WALTERS, J. R. 1982. Parental behavior in Lapwings (Charadriidae) and its relationships with clutch sizes and mating systems. Evolution 36:1030-1040.
33. WALTERS, J. R. 1984. The evolution of parental behavior and clutch size in shorebirds. Pages 243-287 in Behavior of marine animals, vol. 5 (J. Burger and B.L. Olla, Eds.). Plenum Press, New York.
34. WARNOCK, N., AND L. W. ORING. 1996. Nocturnal nest attendance of Killdeers: More than meets the eye. Auk 113:502-504.