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Western Sandpiper
Science
The Western
Sandpiper is the focus of a long term study by several faculty
and students at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Wildlife
Ecology. PWLF Directors Drs. Ron Ydenberg and Rob Butler are
part of that team.
More science
Scientific
Publications
Bishop, M. A.
and N. Warnock. 1998. Migration of Western Sandpipers: links
between their stopover areas and breeding grounds. Wilson
Bull. 110: 457-462.
Blomqvist D,
Kempenaers B, Lanctot RB, Sandercock BK. 2002. Genetic
parentage and mate guarding in the Arctic-breeding Western
Sandpiper Auk 119: 228-233.
Buenrostro M.
A., N. Warnock, & H. de la Cueva. 1999. Wintering Western
Sandpipers (Calidris mauri) at Estero de Punta Banda,
Baja California, Mexico. Wader Study Group Bulletin 88: 59-63.
Burns J.G.
2003. Relationship of Calidris sandpiper wing shape
with relative fuel load and total migration distance
Auk 120: 827-835.
Burns, J.G.
and S.L. Wardrop. 2001. The veloci-raptor: a bicycle-powered
model raptor for realistic predator encounter experiments. J.
Field Ornithol. 72:399-403.
Burns, J. G.
and R.C. Ydenberg. 2002. The effects of wing loading and
gender on the escape flights of least sandpipers (Calidris
minutilla) and western sandpipers (Calidris mauri)
Behav Ecol Sociobiol, 52: 128-136.
Butler, R.W.,
F.S. Delgado, H. de la Cueva, V. Pulido and B.K. Sandercock.
1996. Migration routes of the Western Sandpiper. Wilson Bull.
108: 662-672.
Butler, R.W.,
T.D. Williams, N. Warnock and M.A. Bishop. 1997. Wind
assistance: a requirement for shorebird migration? Auk 114:
456-466.
Butler, R.W.,
R.I.G. Morrison, K.R. Ross, F.S. Delgado and G.E.J. Smith.
1997. Habitat associations of coastal birds in Panama.
Colonial Waterbirds 20:518-524.
Butler, RW,
RIG Morrison, FS Delgado, RK Ross and GEJ Smith. 1998.
Distribution of shorebirds, coastal seabirds, and wading birds
in realtion to oceanic upwelling along the Pacific coast of
Panama. Pp. 90-103 in Morrison, RIG, RW Butler, FS
Delgado and RK Ross. 1998. Atlas of Nearactic shorebirds and
other waterbirds on the coast of Panama. CWS Special Publ.,
Ottawa.
Butler, R.W.,
N.C. Davidson and I.G. Morrison. 2001. Global scale shorebird
distribution in relation to productivity of near-shore ocean
waters. Waterbirds 24:224-232:.
Butler, R. W.,
T. D. Williams, N. Warnock and M. A. Bishop. 1999. Reply to
Hedenström and Weber's "Gone with the wind? A Comment on
Butler et al." Auk 116: 563-564.
Butler, R.W.,
P.C.F. Shepherd and M.J.F. Lemon. 2002.
Site
fidelity and local movements of migrating western sandpipers
on the Fraser River estuary Wilson Bull.
114: 485-490.
Clark, C. and
R.W. Butler. 1999. Fitness components of avian migration:
dynamic optimization model of the western sandpiper.
Evolutionary Ecology Review 1: 443-447.
Delgado, FS.
1998. Geography, physical oceanography and climate of Panama.
Pp. 19-26 in Morrison, RIG, RW Butler, FS Delgado and
RK Ross. 1998. Atlas of Nearactic shorebirds and other
waterbirds on the coast of Panama. CWS Special Publ., Ottawa.
Egeler, O. &
Williams, T.D. 2000. Seasonal variation in fatty acid
composition of depot fat in the western sandpiper (Calidris
mauri). Auk 117: 110-119.
Egeler, O.,
Williams, T.D. & Guglielmo, C.G. 2000. Modulation of lipogenic
enzymes, fatty acid synthase and D9-desaturase, in relation to
migration in the Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri).
Journal of Comparative Physiology B 170: 169-174.
Fernández,
G., R. Carmona, and H. de la Cueva. 1998. Abundance and
distribution of western sandpipers in Ensenada de La Paz, Baja
California Sur. Southwestern Naturalist 43: 57-61.
Fernández, G.,
H. de la Cueva, and N. Warnock. 2001. Phenology and site
fidelity of transient and wintering Western sandpipers at
Estero Punta Banda, Mexico. Journal of Field Ornithology
72:509-520.
Fernández, G.,
H. de la Cueva, N. Warnock, and D. B. Lank. 2003. Apparent
survival rates of Western Sandpiper (Calidris mauri)
wintering in northwest Baja California, Mexico. Auk 120:
55-61.
Fernández ,
G., P.D. O’Hara and D.B. Lank.
2004. Tropical and subtropical Western Sandpipers (Calidris
mauri) differ in life history strategies. Ornitol.
Neotrop. 15 (suppl.) 385-394.
Guglielmo, C.G.
2002. Kidney, Liver and Bone Cadmium Concentrations in the
Western Sandpiper in Relation to Migration. Journal of
Environmental Monitoring, 4:791-795.
Guglielmo, C.G.
and J.G. Burns. 2001. Avian forensics: predicting body fat and
body mass from wing remains. J. Avian Biol. 32:198-203.
Guglielmo, C.G.
and T.D. Williams. 2003. Phenotypic flexibility of body
composition in relation to migratory state, age and sex in the
western sandpiper. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
76:84-98.
Guglielmo, C.G,
N.H. Haunerland and T.D. Williams. 1998. Fatty acid binding
protein, a major protein in the flight muscle of migrating
western sandpipers. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B
119: 549-555.
Guglielmo, C.G.,
T. Piersma and T.D. Williams. 2001. A sport physiological
perspective on bird migration: evidence for flight-induced
muscle damage. J. Exp. Biol. 204:2683-2690.
Guglielmo, C.G.,
O'Hara, P.O. & Williams, T.D. 2002. Extrinsic and intrinsic
sources of variation in plasma lipid metabolites of
free-living western sandpipers (Calidris mauri). Auk
119: 437-445.
Iverson, G.C.,
S.E. Warnock, R.W. Butler, M.A. Bishop, and N. Warnock. 1996.
Spring migration of western sandpipers along the Pacific Coast
of North America: A telemetry study. Condor 98: 10-21.
Lank, D.B.,
R.W. Butler, J. Ireland and R.C. Ydenberg. 2003. Effects of
predation danger on migration strategies of sandpipers. Oikos
103:303–319.
Lank, D.B. and
Ydenberg, R.C. 2003. Death and
danger at migratory stopovers: problems with “predation
risk”. J. Avian Biol. 34:225–228.
Lissimore, D.,
M.J.F. Lemon, D.B. Lank, R.W. Butler and R.C. Ydenberg. 1999.
Large and consistent body mass differences of migrant calidris
sandpipers at adjacent stopover sites: phenomenon and
possibilities. Wader Study Group Bull. 88: 55-58.
Morrison,
R.I.G., R.W. Butler, F.S. Delgado and R.K. Ross. 1998. Atlas
of Nearctic shorebirds and other waterbirds on the coast of
Panama. CWS Occasional Special Publication, Ottawa.
Morrison, RIG,
FS Delgado, RK Ross and RW Butler. 1998. The distribution and
abundance of Nearctic shorebirds on the coast of Panama. Pp.
41-68 in Morrison, RIG, RW Butler, FS Delgado and RK
Ross. 1998. Atlas of Nearactic shorebirds and other waterbirds
on the coast of Panama. CWS Special Publ., Ottawa.
O’Hara, P.D., D.B. Lank and F.S. Delgado. 2002.
Is the timing of moult altered by
migration?
Evidence from a comparison of age and residency classes of
Western
Sandpipers (Calidris
mauri) in Panamá. Ardea 90:61–70.
Nebel, S., D.B.
Lank, P.D. O'Hara, G. Fernández, B. Haase, F. Delgado, F.A.
Estela, L.J. Evans Ogden, B. Harrington, B.E. Kus, J.E. Lyons,
F. Mercier, B. Ortego, J.Y. Takekawa, N. Warnock and S.E.
Warnock. 2002. Western Sandpipers (Calidris mauri)
during the non-breeding season: spatial segregation on a
hemispheric scale. Auk 119: 922–928.
Sandercock,
B.K.. 1996. Removal of eggshells at hatch by Western and
Semipalmated Sandpipers. Condor 98: 431-433.
Sandercock,
B.K. 1997. Incubation capacity and clutch size determination
in two calidrine sandpipers: a test of the four-egg threshold.
Oecologia 110: 50-59.
Sandercock,
B.K. 1997. Factors affecting the breeding demography of
Western Sandpipers (Calidris mauri) and Semipalmated
Sandpipers (C. pusilla) at Nome, Alaska. Ph.D thesis,
Simon Fraser University.
Sandercock,
B.K. 1998. Assortative mating and sexual size dimorphism in
Western and Semipalmated Sandpipers. Auk 115: 786-791.
Sandercock,
B.K. 1998. Chronology of nesting events in Western and
Semipalmated Sandpipers near the Arctic Circle. J. Field
Ornith. 69: 235-243.
Sandercock,
B.K., D.B. Lank and F. Cooke. 1999. Seasonal declines in the
fecundity of arctic-breeding sandpipers: different tactics in
two species with an invariant clutch size. J. Avian Biol. 30:
460-468.
Sandercock,
B.K., D.B. Lank, R.B. Lanctot, B. Kempenaers, and F. Cooke.
2000. Ecological correlates of mate fidelity in two
arctic-breeding sandpipers. Condor 78: 1948-1958.
Sewell, M.A.
1996. Detection of the impact of predation by migratory
shorebirds: an experimental test in the Fraser River estuary,
British Columbia (Canada). Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 144: 23-40.
Sutherland, T.
F., P.C.F. Shepherd, and R.W. Elner. 2000. Predation on
meiofaunal and macrofaunal invertebrates by western sandpipers
(Calidris mauri): evidence for dual foraging modes.
Marine Biology 137:983-993.
Warnock, N and
Bishop, M. 1998. Spring stopover ecology of migrant western
sandpipers. Condor 100: 456-467.
Williams, T.D.
Guglielmo, C.G., Egeler, O.E. & Martyniuk, C.J. 1999. Plasma
lipid metabolites provide information on mass change over
several days in captive western sandpipers (Calidris mauri).
Auk 116: 994-1000.
Ydenberg, R.C.,
R.W. Butler, D.B. Lank, C.G. Guglielmo, M. Lemon and N. Wolf.
2002. Trade-offs, condition dependence, and stopover site
selection by migrating western sandpipers. J. Avian Biol. 33:
47-55.
Ydenberg,
R.C., R.W. Butler, D.B. Lank, B.D. Smith and J. Ireland.
2004.
Western sandpipers alter migration tactics to mitigate danger
from recovering peregrine falcon populations. Proc. Roy. Soc.
B, Lond. . 271:1263–1269.
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