Fall Migration and Vehicle Disturbance of Shorebirds at South Core Banks, North Carolina.

• Main Author: Tarr, Nathan Moloney
• Other Authors: Kenneth H. Pollock, Committee Member, Jaime A. Collazo, Committee Member, Theodore R. Simons, Committee Chair
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: habitat use; ORV; OHV; migration; stopover; shorebirds; disturbance; BACI; Barrier Island; Swash; Arenaria interpres; Calidris alba; Calidris canutus
• Online Access: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.16/983

Anthropogenic disturbance has been implicated as a factor related to declines in shorebird populations because they depend upon coastal stopover sites, where human recreation is concentrated, for resting and refueling between long, energetically-expensive migration flights. We examined the use of So...