Feeding Ecology of Arctic-Nesting Sandpipers during Spring Migration through the Prairie Pothole Region

We evaluated food habits of 4 species of spring-migrant calidrid sandpipers in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of North Dakota. Sandpipers foraged in several wetland classes and fed primarily on aquatic dipterans, mostly larvae, and the midge family Chironomidae was the primary food eaten. Larger s...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of Wildlife Management. - The Wildlife Society. - 73(2009), 2, Seite 248-252
1. Verfasser:	Eldridge, Jan L. (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Krapu, Gary L., Johnson, Douglas H.
Format:	Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2009
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:	The Journal of Wildlife Management
Schlagworte:	Calidris Chironomidae feeding ecology midge larvae North Dakota sandpiper shorebird Biological sciences Physical sciences Behavioral sciences mehr... Applied sciences Business