Contrasting Trans-Atlantic Migratory Routes of Nearctic Purple SandpipersCalidris maritimaAssociated with Low Pressure Systems in Spring and Winter

• Published in: Ardea
• Main Authors: Summers, R.W., Boland, H., Colhoun, K., Elkins, N., Etheridge, B., Foster, S., Fox, J.W., Mackie, K., Quinn, L.R., Swann, R.L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Netherlands Ornithologists' Union 2014
• Subjects: Baffin Island; Canada; Greenland; Hudson; Devon Island; Hudson Strait; Baffin; Iceland
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/509406/; https://doi.org/10.5253/arde.v102i2.a4

Bird migration is generally scheduled to avoid other energetically expensive events in the annual cycle (e.g. moult) and seasons when survival can be difficult (e.g. northern winters). Purple Sandpipers winter at relatively high latitudes compared to other waders. It is suspected that the majority t...