Western sandpipers have altered migration tactics as peregrine falcon populations have recovered

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1545, 2004, Pages 1263-1269

  Ydenberg, Ronald C ^a,b   Butler, Robert W ^a,b   Lank, David B ^a   Smith, Barry D ^a,b   Ireland, John ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c George C Reifel Migratory Bird S   (Canada)

Author keywords

Falcon population recovery; Migration; Predation danger; Sandpiper migration tactics; Stopovers

Indexed keywords

MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; RAPTOR; REINTRODUCTION; STOPOVER;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CANADA; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHOREBIRD;

CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS MAURI; CICONIIFORMES; FALCO; FALCO PEREGRINUS; PEREGRINUS; RAPTORES; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 2942715413     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2713     Document Type: Article

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