The Changing Bay of Fundy—Beyond 400 Years FACTORS AFFECTING MOVEMENT OF SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS (Calidris pusilla) MIGRATING THROUGH THE UPPER BAY OF FUNDY

The upper Bay of Fundy is a key migratory stopover point for Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla), a small shorebird which breeds in the Arctic and winters in northern South America. One to two million birds—between 40 percent and 75 percent of the world’s population—visit local mudflats annua...

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Main Authors: Ashley J. Sprague, Tony W. Diamond, Diana J. Hamilton
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
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Arctic
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.536.6236
http://docs.informatics.management.dal.ca/gsdl/collect/bofep1/pdf/WF/BOFEP6-2004-110.pdf
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Summary:The upper Bay of Fundy is a key migratory stopover point for Semipalmated Sandpipers (Calidris pusilla), a small shorebird which breeds in the Arctic and winters in northern South America. One to two million birds—between 40 percent and 75 percent of the world’s population—visit local mudflats annually, the majority from late July to late August (Hicklin 1987; Mawhinney et al. 1993). Many

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