Coastal Waders and Wildfowl in Winter
- Date Published: June 2011
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521281676
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This 1984 book arose from an international meeting held at Texel in the Netherlands in April 1981 to discuss the feeding requirements and behaviour of shorebirds and coastal wildfowl. The book was designed both for general ornithologists, so that they may advise planners concerned with coastal wetlands, and for research workers interested in bird ecology and behaviour. The book is divided into three sections, each the responsibility of one of the editors, who provides a brief section introduction. The first covers bird numbers in relation to food resources; the second relates population densities to social and individual behaviour of birds within the flocks, and the third examines the role of areas of particular significance to migrant shorebirds along the route from West Africa to the high-latitude breeding grounds stretching from Greenland to western Siberia. This volume was produced in conjunction with the British Ornithologists' Union.
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- Date Published: June 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521281676
- length: 342 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
List of contributors
Part I. Bird Populations: The Influence of Food Resources on the Use of Feeding Areas: Introduction P. R. Evans
1. Coastal birds: numbers in relation to food resources P. R. Evans and P. J. Dugan
2. Balancing the budget: measuring the energy intake and requirements of shorebirds in the field M. W. Pienkowski, P. N. Ferns, N. C. Davidson and D. H. Worrall
3. Relations between the distribution of waders and the intertidal benthic fauna of the Oosterschelde, Netherlands P. Meire and E. Kuyken
4. How Oystercatchers and Curlews successfully deplete clams L. Zwarts and J. Wanink
5. Waterfowl movements in relation to food stocks M. R. van Eerden
6. Diving duck populations in relation to their food supplies O. Pehrsson
Part II. Bird Populations: Social Behaviour and the Use of Feeding Areas: Introduction J. D. Goss-Custard
7. Why do birds roost communally R. C. Ydenberg and H. H. Th. Prins
8. The unsociable plover - the use of intertidal areas by Grey Plovers D. J. Townshend, P. J. Dugan and M. W. Pienkowski
9. Age-related distribution of Dunlin in the Dutch Wadden Sea T. M. van der Have, E. Nieboer and G. C. Boere
10. Differences in quality of roosting flock of Oystercatchers C. Swennen
11. Feeding ecology, winter mortality and the population dynamics of Oystercatchers on the Exe estuary J. D. Goss-Custard and S. E. A. le V. dit Durell
Part III. Introduction W. G. Hale
12. The Danish Wadden Sea K. Laursen and J. Frikke
13. The German Wadden Sea P. Prokosch
14. The Dutch Wadden Sea W. J. Wolff and C. J. Smit
15. The Dutch Delta Area R. J. Leewis, H. J. M. Baptist and P. L. Meininger
16. The British Isles P. R. Evans
17. The Atlantic coast of Morocco M. Kersten and C. J. Smit
18. The Banc d'Arguin (Mauritania) M. Engelmoer, T. Piersma, W. Altenburg and R. Mes
19. The changing face of European wintering areas W. G. Hale
Index.
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