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Environmental contaminants in Canadian shorebirds
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2008Canadian shorebirds are exposed to environmental contaminants throughout their annual cycle. Contaminant exposure among species varies with diet, foraging behaviour and migration patterns. We sampled twelve species of shorebirds from four locations across Canada to assess their exposure to PCBs, organochlorine pesticides, as well as four trace elements
Birgit M, Braune, David G, Noble
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Pollution threatens migratory shorebirds
Science, 2015In addition to the destruction and loss of coastal wetlands along migration routes (“Hostile shores,” C. Larson, News Features, 9 October, p. [150][1]), contamination in the Yellow Sea poses a critical threat to migratory shorebirds.
Zhenwu, Tang +3 more
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MIGRANT SHOREBIRDS IN THE SEYCHELLES
Ibis, 1977SUMMARYThe aim of this paper was to assess the status of migrant shorebirds in the Seychelles. Most observations were concentrated on two areas: a 6 ha mudflat at Victoria, Mahé, and open areas of Bird Island.A systematic list of all shorebirds that have been recorded in the Seychelles is given, including data on abundance and their incidence on other ...
Christopher J. Feare, Jeremy High
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2022
Join Milly on her microlight adventure and discover how amazing and awesome migratory shorebirds are! In A Shorebird Flying Adventure you’ll take a trip to the Arctic tundra and back. On the way you’ll meet the birds who travel phenomenal distances every year and explore their precious wetland habitats and breeding grounds.
Jackie Kerin, Milly Formby
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Join Milly on her microlight adventure and discover how amazing and awesome migratory shorebirds are! In A Shorebird Flying Adventure you’ll take a trip to the Arctic tundra and back. On the way you’ll meet the birds who travel phenomenal distances every year and explore their precious wetland habitats and breeding grounds.
Jackie Kerin, Milly Formby
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Population trends of North American shorebirds based on the International Shorebird Survey
Biological Conservation, 1989Abstract Shorebirds Charadrii are prime candidates for population decline because of their dependence on wetlands that are being lost at a rapid pace. Thirty-six of the 49 species of shorebirds that breed in North America spend most of the year in Latin America.
Marshall A. Howe +2 more
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What’s killing the world’s shorebirds?
Nature, 2017Researchers brave polar bears, mosquitoes and gull attacks in the Canadian Arctic to investigate an alarming die ...
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Conservation of Nearctic Shorebirds
1984The public, and the government agencies that they influence, are often aroused to the cause of wildlife conservation only after species are seriously endangered. Unfortunately, the protection and restoration of already endangered species is at best an expensive and difficult endeavor; at worst, it can be a futile one.
Stanley E. Senner, Marshall A. Howe
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