The influence of body condition on local apparent survival of spring migrant Sanderlings in coastal North Carolina.
Abstract. Many shorebirds are long-distance migrants, and they depend upon widely spaced stopover sites for refueling during their annual migrations. Two competing hypotheses attempt to explain stopover duration: one predicts departure based on time minimization (timeselection hypothesis) and the ot...
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2003
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1089.274 http://obpa-nc.org/DOI-AdminRecord/0054794-0054802.pdf |