Red Knots ( Calidris canutus piersmai and C. c. rogersi ) depend on a small threatened staging area in Bohai Bay, China

• Published in: Emu - Austral Ornithology
• Main Authors: Rogers, Danny I., Yang, Hong-Yan, Hassell, Chris J., Boyle, Adrian N., Rogers, Ken G., Chen, Bing, Zhang, Zheng-Wang, Piersma, Theunis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: BREEDING GROUNDS; PREY QUALITY; WADDEN SEA; MIGRATION; SHOREBIRDS; STOPOVER; MECHANISM; CHOICE; RATES; JUNE; New Siberian Islands; New Zealand; Calidris canutus; Chukotka
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11370/4931c63d-29fb-42cb-ad9b-db0eda68e42c; https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/4931c63d-29fb-42cb-ad9b-db0eda68e42c; https://doi.org/10.1071/MU10024; https://pure.rug.nl/ws/files/6755401/2010EmuRogers.pdf

We monitored numbers of Red Knots (Calidris canutus) staging in Bohai Bay, China (39 degrees 02'N, 118 degrees 15'E) on northward migration. Knots were identified to subspecies, and we systematically searched for colour-banded birds from the non-breeding grounds. We modelled migratory turn...