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

• Published in: Behavioral Ecology
• Main Authors: Reurink, Florian, Hentze, Nathan, Rourke, Jay, Ydenberg, Ron
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Dunlin; Foraging theory; Optimal flight speed; Shorebird habitat quality; Canada; Pacific; British Columbia; Fraser River; Calidris alpina
• Online Access: https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/site-specific-flight-speeds-of-nonbreeding-pacific-dunlins-as-a-m; https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arv223

Many studies have investigated how foraging behavior such as prey choice varies with factors such as prey size or density. Models of such relationships can be applied "in reverse" to translate easily observed foraging behaviors into assays of habitat attributes that cannot (easily) be meas...