Seasonal abundance of nonbreeding Piping Plovers on a Georgia barrier island

Journal of Field Ornithology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 420-427

  Noel, Brandon L ^a,c   Chandler, C Ray ^a   Winn, Brad ^b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Georgia Department of Natural Resources   (United States)

^c ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrival and departure times; Atlantic coast; Charadrius melodus; Great Lakes population; Migration; Wintering

Indexed keywords

CHARADRIIDAE; CHARADRIUS MELODUS;

EID: 36849059760     PISSN: 02738570     EISSN: 15579263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1557-9263.2007.00134.x     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Amirault, D. L., J. McKnight, F. Schaffer, K. Baker, L. MacDonnell, and P. Thomas. 2006. Novel anodized aluminum bands cause leg injuries in Piping Plovers. Journal of Field Ornithology 77 : 18 20.
2. Dinsmore, S. J., J. A. Collazo, and J. R. Walters. 1998. Seasonal numbers and distribution of shorebirds on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Wilson Bulletin 110 : 171 181.
3. Dodd, S. L., M. D. Spinks, and P. M. Wilkinson. 1999. Abundance and distribution of wintering Piping Plovers on the coast of South Carolina: findings from the 1997, 1998, and 1999 mid-winter censuses. Chat 63 : 155 166.
4. Ferland, C. L., and S. M. Haig. 2002. 2001 International Piping Plover Census. U.S. Geological Survey, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Corvallis, OR.
5. FernÁndez, G., H. de la Cueva, N. Warnock, and D. B. Lank. 2003. Apparent survival rates of Western Sandpipers wintering in northwest Baja California, Mexico. Auk 120 : 55 61.
6. Haig, S. M. 1992. Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus). In : The Birds of North America, no. 2 (A. Poole, P. Stettenheim, and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C.
7. Haig, S. M., and L. W. Oring. 1985. Distribution and status of the Piping Plover throughout the annual cycle. Journal of Field Ornithology 56 : 334 335.
8. Hitchcock, C. L., and C. Gratto-Trevor. 1997. Diagnosing a shorebird local population decline with a stage-structured population model. Ecology 78 : 522 534.
9. JMP. 1994. Version 3.0.2. SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC.
10. Myers, J. P. 1981. Cross-seasonal interactions in the evolution of sandpiper social systems. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 8 : 195 202.
11. Nicholls, J. L., and G. A. Baldassarre. 1990. Winter distribution of Piping Plover along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. Wilson Bulletin 102 : 400 412.
12. Noel, B. L., and C. R. Chandler. 2008. Spatial distribution and site fidelity of nonbreeding Piping Plovers on the Georgia coast. Waterbirds 31 : in press.
13. O'Reilly, K. M., and J. C. Wingfield. 1995. Spring and autumn migration in shorebirds: same distance, different strategies. Integrative and Comparative Biology 35 : 222 233.
14. Plissner, J. H., and S. M. Haig. 1997. 1996 International Piping Plover census. U. S. Geological Survey, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Corvallis, OR.
15. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1985. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; Determination of endangered and threatened status for the Piping Plover - final rule. Federal Register 50 : 50726 50734.
16. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1996. Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus), Atlantic Coast population, revised recovery plan. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Hadley, MA.
17. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2001. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants: final determination of critical habitat for wintering Piping Plovers. Federal Register 66 : 36037 36104.
18. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, G. W. Page, and B. K. Sandercock. 1997. Local survival of Dunlin wintering in California. Condor 99 : 906 915.
19. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, J. Y. Takekawa, and M. A. Bishop. 2004. Migration and stopover strategies of individual Dunlin along the Pacific coast of North America. Canadian Journal of Zoology 82 : 1687 1697.