Sexual size dimorphism, disassortative pairing, and annual survival of Broad-billed Sandpipers in northern Norway

• Published in: Wader Study
• Main Authors: Sandercock, Brett, Rae, Robert, Rae, Stuart, Whitfield, D. Philip
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: apparent survival; biometrics; Calidris falcinellus; Finnmark; life expectancy; mark-recapture; VDP::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480; VDP::Zoology and botany: 480; Norway; Kautokeino; Fennoscandia; Northern Norway; taiga
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3042365; https://doi.org/10.18194/ws.00288

The Broad-billed Sandpiper Calidris falcinellus is an elusive and seldom studied species of wader that breeds in wet fen habitats in the Palearctic taiga. In a 25-year population study from 1995–2019 near Kautokeino, Norway, we investigated the use of biometrics for sexing, tested for patterns of se...