Do staging semipalmated sandpipers spend the high-tide period in flight over the Ocean to Avoid Falcon Attacks along Shore?

Waterbirds

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 195-201

  Dekker, Dick ^a   Dekker, Irma ^a   Christie, David ^b   Ydenberg, Ronald ^c  

^a Albert County ^*  (Canada)

^b Albert County   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bay of Fundy; Calidris alpina; migrant sandpipers; over ocean flocking; Peregrine Falcons

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEACH; DISTURBANCE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT TYPE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; NEST SITE; PREDATION; PREDATOR; RAPTOR; TIDAL CYCLE; WADER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF FUNDY;

ACCIPITER STRIATUS; CALIDRIS ALPINA; CALIDRIS PUSILLA; FALCO COLUMBARIUS; FALCO PEREGRINUS; FALCONIDAE; RAPTORES; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 79960715842     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.034.0208     Document Type: Article

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