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Arctic Shorebirds in North America


Melanie Colón
  • A Decade of Monitoring Jonathan Robert Bart, Victoria Helen Johnston University of California Press 2012 Berkeley, California United States http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520273108

    320 pages

    English , Nearctic, , Canada, United States, , Plovers (Charadriidae), Sandpipers, Snipes (Scolopacidae), Studies in Avian Biology 44 Cooper Ornithological Society 09/01/2012 9780520273108 No value 09/01/2012 9780520953499

Each year shorebirds from North and South America migrate thousands of miles to spend the summer in the Arctic. There they feed in shoreline marshes and estuaries along some of the most productive and pristine coasts anywhere. With so much available food they are able to reproduce almost explosively; and as winter approaches, they retreat south along with their offspring, to return to the Arctic the following spring. This remarkable pattern of movement and activity has been the object of intensive study by an international team of ornithologists who have spent a decade counting, surveying, and observing these shorebirds. In this important synthetic work, they address multiple questions about these migratory bird populations. How many birds occupy Arctic ecosystems each summer? How long do visiting shorebirds linger before heading south? How fecund are these birds? Where exactly do they migrate and where exactly do they return? Are their populations growing or shrinking? The results of this study are crucial for better understanding how environmental policies will influence Arctic habitats as well as the far-ranging winter habitats used by migratory shorebirds.




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