Weather-Related Winter Mortality of Eurasian Oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) in the Northeastern Wadden Sea

Waterbirds

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 319-330

  Schwemmer, Philipp ^a   Hälterlein, Bernd ^b   Geiter, Olaf ^c   Günther, Klaus ^d   Corman, Victor M ^e   Garthe, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b National Park Administration Wadden Sea Schleswig Holstein   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^d Schutzstation Wattenmeer e V   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

age, biometry, Eurasian Oystercatchers, feeding technique, Haematopus ostralegus, mortality, sex; wader; winter

Indexed keywords

ABNORMALITY; AGE DETERMINATION; ANNELID; BIVALVE; BODY MASS; FOOD QUALITY; LESION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MASS MORTALITY; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEX RATIO; STOMACH CONTENT; VIRUS; WADER; WEATHER; WINTER;

AMRUM; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMANY; NORTH FRISIAN ISLANDS; NORTH SEA; SCANDINAVIA; SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN; WADDEN SEA;

AVES; BIVALVIA; CERASTODERMA EDULE; HAEMATOPUS OSTRALEGUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 84939176948     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.037.0310     Document Type: Article

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