Ron Summers, Brian Bates, Louise de Raad, Norman Elkins and Brian Etheridge
Abstract The migrations of Common Sandpipers Actitis hypoleucos are described by combining ringing data with findings from a geolocator study in Highland Scotland. The first part of the autumn migration involved feeding in areas away from the breeding grounds, where the birds’ body mass increased at a mean rate of 0.9
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