Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) Science Article 6 abstract Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus pairs generally re-nest together after the loss of a clutch. In contrast, two females who hatched clutches changed mates before re-nesting, thus proving sequential polyandry. Observations of adults accompanying broods show that females normally desert the brood about a week after hatching. The […]

Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) Science Article 3 abstract Female kentish plovers Charadrius alexandrnus typically desert their broods after the chicks hatch, i.e. 1 4 weeks before the chicks fledge or become independent. In this paper we investigate the costs and benefits of desertion for females. Desertion incurs a cost for females: following desertion chick survival […]

Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) Science Article 8 abstract Breeding biology of Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) population in an inlnd saline lake. We studied the breeding. biology of Kentish Plovers in Fuente de Piedra lake (southern Spain) in 1997 and q992. Breeders showed sexual dimorphism in tarsal length and body mass: body mass decreased throughout the […]

Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) Science Article 2 abstract Atanasovsko Lake is the most important Kentish Plover breeding site in Bulgaria. 141 pairs nested there in 1978, 252 in 1979 and 238 in 1981. During the following years, numbers decreased sharply due to habitat degradation, reaching 39 pairs in 1993 and 65 in 2000. Detailed studies […]

Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) Science Article 5 abstract This study describes their habitat use and resource overlap in an area of co-occur-rence in southern Norway, and analyzes their population densities, and aggression inrelation to predictions from the competitive exclusion principle. Ingvar Byrkjedal, J. Orn. 130, 1989: S. 197-206 Download article download full text (pdf)

Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) Science Article 6 abstract Knowledge of diet and intake rates is a useful first step in understanding the distribution and behaviour of foragers. The diet of Golden Plovers and Lapwings feeding on arable farmland has been rarely studied. Yet these species increasingly occupy this habitat in winter. They are known to […]

Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) Science Article 4 abstract Most studies of climate-driven changes in avian breeding phenology have focused on temperate passerines, yet the consequences of such environmental change may be more deleterious for other avian taxa, such as arctic and sub-arctic waders (Charadrii). We therefore examine large-scale climatic correlates of the breeding phenology of […]

Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) Science Article 2 abstract Despite the listing of golden plover Pluvialis apricaria on Annex 1 of the European Directive on theConservation of Wild Birds there is virtually no information on the habitat requirements or diet oftheir chicks. We used radio telemetry to investigate habitat selection of 22 broods on two uplandstudy […]

Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) Science Article 7 abstract Previous work has shown that Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria guarding chicks utilize heavily disturbed habitat at a lower rate than surrounding areas, but that such rates of avoidance are reduced when the movement of people is restricted to a surfaced footpath. However, there remained some unanswered questions, […]

Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria) Science Article 1 abstract 1. The golden plover Pluvialis apricaria is of high conservation concern in Europe.Previous studies have concentrated on how birds utilize moorland. We used radio-telemetry to study their habitat selection and behaviour, during both night andday, in an upland landscape of enclosed