Tiny and easily overlooked among the hordes of more spectacular shorebirds streaming up and down the Atlantic Coast, the semipalmated sandpiper is suddenly standing out in the fragile ecological ...

The conservation of key stopover sites for migratory wading birds is important because there are so few and because in some cases they support entire populations. In Minas Basin in the Bay of Fundy, ...

Effects of color bands on adult birds have been investigated in many studies, but much less is known about the effects of bands on birds banded at hatch. We captured Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris ...