Results 171 to 180 of about 19,007 (205)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
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
openaire +1 more source
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
openaire +1 more source
2004
Shorebirds are the most visible inhabitants of coastal wetlands worldwide. Many undertake spectacularly long flights between their wintering and breeding grounds, embodying the miracle of long-distance migration in a profound way. In this illustrated behavioural ecology the migration, feeding and breeding of these birds are explained in a comprehensive
van de Kam, Jan +3 more
openaire +2 more sources
Shorebirds are the most visible inhabitants of coastal wetlands worldwide. Many undertake spectacularly long flights between their wintering and breeding grounds, embodying the miracle of long-distance migration in a profound way. In this illustrated behavioural ecology the migration, feeding and breeding of these birds are explained in a comprehensive
van de Kam, Jan +3 more
openaire +2 more sources
Choice Reviews Online, 2007
Shorebirds of Australia brings together the latest information about the evolution, ecology and behaviour of shorebirds and how they are distributed in Australia. Complete with colour photographs and up-to-date distribution maps, it provides descriptions and tips to assist with the identification of all species of shorebird in ...
openaire +2 more sources
Shorebirds of Australia brings together the latest information about the evolution, ecology and behaviour of shorebirds and how they are distributed in Australia. Complete with colour photographs and up-to-date distribution maps, it provides descriptions and tips to assist with the identification of all species of shorebird in ...
openaire +2 more sources
2009
Abstract Shorebirds are a diverse cosmopolitan group that forms the monophyletic Order Charadriiformes. 7ey represent one of the largest clades in birds with 366 species classiAed traditionally in 19 families (1). theorder can be divided into three major clades (2–4): Scolopaci (sandpipers, jacanas, painted snipes, seedsnipes, and Plains-
Allan J Baker, Sérgio L Pereiraa
openaire +1 more source
Abstract Shorebirds are a diverse cosmopolitan group that forms the monophyletic Order Charadriiformes. 7ey represent one of the largest clades in birds with 366 species classiAed traditionally in 19 families (1). theorder can be divided into three major clades (2–4): Scolopaci (sandpipers, jacanas, painted snipes, seedsnipes, and Plains-
Allan J Baker, Sérgio L Pereiraa
openaire +1 more source
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
openaire +2 more sources
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
openaire +1 more source
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 ...
openaire +2 more sources
1984
Marine biologists usually consider marine animals to include those organisms that live in the seas, bays, and estuaries. Traditionally, they have studied marine mammals (such as seals, dolphins, porpoises, whales), marine fishes, and a myriad of invertebrates whose entire life cycles are normally restricted to salt water habitats.
openaire +1 more source
Marine biologists usually consider marine animals to include those organisms that live in the seas, bays, and estuaries. Traditionally, they have studied marine mammals (such as seals, dolphins, porpoises, whales), marine fishes, and a myriad of invertebrates whose entire life cycles are normally restricted to salt water habitats.
openaire +1 more source