Functional association of bill morphology and foraging behaviour in calidrid sandpipers

Animal Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 235-243

  Nebel, Silke ^a,d   Jackson, D L ^b   Elner, R W ^a,c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bill micro anatomy; Dunlin; Foraging mode; Herbst corpuscles; Least Sandpiper; Sensory pits; Western Sandpiper

Indexed keywords

FEEDING ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; WADER;

AVES; CALIDRIS ALPINA; CALIDRIS MAURI; CALIDRIS MINUTILLA; INVERTEBRATA; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 22644432855     PISSN: 15707555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1570756054472818     Document Type: Article

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