Site-specific flight speeds of nonbreeding Pacific dunlins as a measure of the quality of a foraging habitat

• Main Authors: Florian Reurink, Nathan Hentze, Jay Rourke, Ron Ydenberg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; Fraser River; Pacific; Calidris alpina
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/beheco/arv223

Lay Summary A model of foraging flight speed can translate this easily observed behavior into estimates of difficult-to-measure habitat intake rate. The prey of Pacific dunlins is too small to be seen as they are ingested and are labor intensive to sample. But flight speed of small flocks foraging a...