Roosting and associated feeding behaviour of turnstones Arenaria interpres and purple sandpipers Calidris maritima in north-east England

Both individual Turnstones and Purple Sandpipers were largely site-faithful during winter; after the breeding season, however, fewer surviving Purple Sandpipers than Turnstones returned to the study area. Both species were sedentary on small low water home ranges and were faithful to a small number...

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Main Author: Burton, Niall H. K.
Published: Durham University 1995
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282837