Estimating shorebird numbers at migration stopover sites

Condor

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 792-807

  Farmer, Adrian ^a   Durbian, Frank ^b  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

Author keywords

Calidris melanotos; Calidris minutilla; Detectability; Least sandpiper; Length of stay; Migration stopover; Pectoral sandpiper

Indexed keywords

AVES; CALIDRIS MELANOTOS; CALIDRIS MINUTILLA;

EID: 33845221417     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2006)108[792:ESNAMS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. ANDERSON, D. R., W. A. LINK, D. H. JOHNSON, AND K. P. BURNHAM. 2001. Suggestions for presenting the results of data analyses. Journal of Wildlife Management 65:373-378.
2. BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL [ONLINE]. 2006. Important bird areas. 〈http://www.birdlife.org/action/ science/sites/〉 (27 June 2006).
3. BUCKLAND, S. T., D. R. ANDERSON, K. P. BURNHAM, AND J. L. LAAKE. 1993. Distance sampling: estimating abundance of biological populations. Chapman and Hall, New York.
4. COCHRAN, W. G. 1977. Sampling techniques. 3rd ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
5. COX, D. A. 1969. Some sampling problems in technology, p. 506-527. In N. C. Johnson and H. Smith [EDS.], New developments in survey sampling. Wiley Interscience, New York.
6. DAUBENMIRE, R. 1959. A canopy-coverage method of vegetation analysis. Northwest Science 33: 43-46.
7. EBERHARDT, L. L., D. G. CHAPMAN, AND J. R. GILBERT. 1979. A review of mammal census methods. Wildlife Monographs 63.
8. EBERHARDT, L. L., AND M. A. SIMMONS. 1987. Calibrating population indices by double sampling. Journal of Wildlife Management 51: 665-675.
9. FARMER, A. H., AND A. H. PARENT. 1997. Effects of the landscape on shorebird movements at spring migration stopovers. Condor 99:698-707.
10. FARMER, A. H., AND J. A. WIENS. 1999. Models and reality: time-energy tradeoffs in Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) migration. Ecology 80:2566-2580.
11. GILMER, D. S., L. H. COWARDIN, R. L. DUVAL, L. M. MECHLIN, C. W. SHAIFFER, AND V. B. KUCHLE. 1981. Procedures for the use of aircraft in wildlife biotelemetry studies. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication 140.
12. HARRINGTON, B. A., J. P. MYERS, AND J. S. GREAR. 1989. Coastal refueling sites for global bird migrants, p. 4293-4307. In Coastal zone '89: proceedings of the sixth symposium on coastal and ocean management. Vol. 5. American Society of Civil Engineers, New York.
13. LAAKE, J. L., S. T. BUCKLAND, D. R. ANDERSON, AND K. P. BURNHAM [ONLINE]. 1996. DISTANCE 2.2. Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. 〈http://www.ruwpa. st-and.ac.uk/distance/〉 (12 July 2006).
14. LAGRANGE, T. G., AND J. D. DINSMORE. 1989. Habitat use by Mallards during spring migration through central Iowa. Journal of Wildlife Management 53:1076-1081.
15. LEHNEN, S. E., AND D. G. KREMENTZ. 2005. Turnover rates of fall-migrating Pectoral Sandpipers in the lower Mississippi alluvial valley. Journal of Wildlife Management 69:671-680.
16. MANOMET CENTER FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCES [ONLINE]. 2005a. Western hemisphere shorebird reserve network. 〈http://www.manomet.org/ WHSRN/〉 (27 June 2006).
17. MANOMET CENTER FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCES [ONLINE]. 2005b. International shorebird surveys. 〈http://www.shorebirdworld.org/template. php?g=13&c=34〉 (27 June 2006).
18. NICHOLS, J. D., J. E. HINES, J. R. SAUER, F. W. FALLON, J. E. FALLON, AND P. J. HEGLUND. 2000. A double-observer approach for estimating detection probability and abundance from point counts. Auk 117:393-408.
19. OTIS, D. A., L. P. MCDONALD, AND M. A. EVANS. 1993. Parameter estimation in encounter sampling surveys. Journal of Wildlife Management 57:543-548.
20. RAIM, A. 1978. A radio transmitter attachment for small passerine birds. Bird-Banding 49:326-332.
21. RAMSAR CONVENTION SECRETARIAT. 2004. The Ramsar Convention manual: a guide to the convention on wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971). 3rd ed. Ramsar Convention Secretariat, Gland, Switzerland.
22. ROBEL, R. J., J. N. BRIGGS, A. D. DAYTON, AND L. C. HULBERT. 1970. Relationships between visual obstruction measurements and weight of grassland vegetation. Journal of Range Management 23:295-297.
23. SKAGEN, S. K., AND F. L. KNOPF. 1994. Residency patterns of migrating sandpipers at a midcontinental stopover. Condor 96:949-958.
24. SPSS. 2000. SYSTAT 10 data. SPSS, Inc., Chicago.
25. WARNOCK, N., AND M. A. BISHOP. 1997. Spring stopover ecology of migrant Western Sandpipers. Condor 100:456-467.
26. WARNOCK, N., AND S. WARNOCK. 1993. Attachment of radio-transmitters to sandpipers: review and methods. Wader Study Group Bulletin 70:28-30.