The birds remained apart from the other shorebirds which were feeding at the same locality.
Field observations by the NAMRU2 party indicate that the birds are usually found as singles and remain apart from other species of migratory shorebirds which visit the islands.
What wetlands, bogs, coastal ponds, lakes, and lagoons are used as gathering grounds and to what extent do waterfowl and shorebirds exchange between gathering grounds?
This creates much disturbance on the breeding grounds, and eggs of terns and shorebirds are also taken.
The scientific names of three species of shorebirds recently identified in the Aleutian Islands that were not listed by the AOU (1957) came from Peterson et al.
Most Fish and Wildlife Branch reserves have been established to protect estuarine habitat for fishes, waterfowl, and shorebirds rather than for true seabirds.
Practically all seabirds and shorebirds can be shot; all other birds (except rock ptarmigan and raven) are totally protected.
Perhaps the greatest concentrations of shorebirds in this whole region occur during spring and fall migrations in Prince William Sound.
To know enough about places where seabirds, waterfowl, and shorebirds gather on migration and during the winter to identify those areas which need special protection from effects of economic development.
These worms are common on both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and are eaten by shorebirds wherever they occur.
In fact, all the larger species of shorebirdshave suffered severely.
The shorebirdsshould be relieved from persecution, and if we desire to save from extermination a majority of the species, action must be prompt.
Shorebirds perform an important service by their inroads upon mosquitoes, some of which play so conspicuous a part in the dissemination of diseases.
Shorebirds have been hunted until only a remnant of their once vast numbers is left.
The above-named species are not the only ones that should be exempt from persecution, for all the shorebirds of the United States are in great need of better protection.
The nine species of shorebirds known to eat mosquitoes are: Northern phalarope (Lobipes lobatus).
So adverse to shorebirds are present conditions that the wonder is that any escape.
Unfortunately, shorebirds lay fewer eggs than any of the other species generally termed game birds.
Other shorebirds that eat leaf-beetles are the Wilson phalarope and dowitcher.
Thus it is evident that shorebirds render important aid by devouring the enemies of farm crops and in other ways, and their services are appreciated by those who have observed the birds in the field.
The protection of shorebirds need not be based solely on esthetic or sentimental grounds, for few groups of birds more thoroughly deserve protection from an economic standpoint.
In the uncultivated parts of their range also, shorebirds search out and destroy many creatures that are detrimental to man's interest.
Until recent yearsshorebirds have had almost no protection.
It is a rare bird in the localities where most of my work on shorebirds has been done and it does not seem to be very common anywhere.
Occurrence and Behavior of Certain Shorebirds in Southern California.
Brown, in some notes sent to me from Westport, Washington, refers to this species as easily outnumbering all other shorebirds combined; they were associated with redbacks, but outnumbered them 10 to 1.
This species builds the most substantial of any of the shorebirds nests that we met with at Hooper Bay, for even after it was removed from the grassy cavity in which it was built the nest would often hold firmly together.
With the possible exception of a specimen of Limosa fedoa, none of the presumed nonbreeding, oversummering shorebirds collected by us showed gonadal enlargement above expected minimal sizes for the species.
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