Oystercatchers and their estuarine food supplies
By: Anne-Marie Blomert ... [et al.], eds
Series: ARDEA -- 84A; Ardea -- jaarg. 84A
Publisher: Netherlands Ornithologists' Union
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Zeist, Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 538
Subjects: Eurasian oystercatcher; Food; Congresses; Estuarine ecology
Notes: "Special issue"--T.p. verso.

Based on a symposium held by the Netherlands Ornithologists' Union.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Forward, ever onwards / R.H. Drent; title: Discriminating the sex of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus / L. Zwarts, J.B. Hulscher, K. Koopman & P.M. Zegers; title: Weight loss in oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus at the high water roost / L. Zwarts, J.B. Hulscher & P.M. Zegers; title: Body weight in relation to variation in body size of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus / L. Zwarts, J.B. Hulscher, K. Koopman & P.M. Zegers; title: The application of motion sensitive transmitters to record activity and foraging patterns of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus / K.-M. Exo, G. Scheiffarth & U. Haesihus; title: Statistical analysis of long-term monthly oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus counts / J. Van der Meer, R.N.M. Duin & P.L. Meininger; title: Food intake by oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus by day and by night measured with an electronic nest balance / M. Kersten & W. Visser; title: ^; title: Prey choice and search speed : why simple optimality fails to explain the prey choice of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus feeding on Nereis diversicolor and Macoma balthica / B.J. Ens, E.J. Bunskoeke, R. Hoekstra, J.B. Hulscher, M. Kersten & S.J. de Vlas; title: Why do oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus switch from feeding on Baltic tellin Macoma balthica to feeding on the ragworm Nereis diversicolor during the breeding season? / E.J. Bunskoeke, B.J. Ens, J.B. Hulscher & S.J. de Vlas; title: Tidal changes in the choice of Nereis diversicolor and Macoma balthica as main prey species in the diet of the oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus / S.J. de Vlas, E.J. Bunskoeke, B.J. Ens & J.B. Hulscher; title: Subtle differences between male and female oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus in feeding on the bivalve Macoma balthica / J.B. Hulscher, D. Alting, E.J. Bunskoeke, B.J. Ens & D. Heg; title: ^; title: Searching behaviour and diet of oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus pairs feeding in their territories / K. Hulsman, M.P. Zalucki & A. Iedema; title: Using optimal foraging theory to determine the density of mussels Mytilus edulis that can be harvested by hammering oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus / P.M. Meire; title: The efficiency of juvenile oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus feeding on ragworms Nereis diversicolor / S.E.A. LeV. dit Durell, J.D. Goss-Custard & A. Perez-Hurtado; title: Seasonal changes in size selection and intake rate of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus feeding on the bivalves Mytilus edulis and Cerastoderma edule / B.J. Eens, S. Dirksen, C.J. Smit & E.J. Bunskoeke; title: Can food specialization by individual oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus be explained by differences in prey specific handling efficiencies? / J.H. Wanink & L. Zwarts; title: ^; title: An empirical optimality model to predict the intake rates of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus feeding on mussels Mytilus edulis / J.D. Goss-Custard, A.D. West, R.W.G. Caldow, S.E.A. LeV. dit Durell, S. McGrorty & J. Urfi; title: Prey selection of a captive oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus hammering mussels Mytilus edulis from the ventral side / B.J. Ens & D. Alting; title: Daily metabolized energy consumption of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus feeding on larvae of the crane fly Tipula paludosa / L. Zwarts & A-M. Blomert; title: Causes of variation in prey profitability and its consequences for the intake rate of the oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus / L. Zwarts, B.J. Ens, .J.D. Goss-Custard, J.B. Hulscher & S.E.A. LeV. dit Durell; title: Why oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus cannot meet their daily energy requirements in a single low water period / L. Zwarts, B.J. Ens, J.D. Goss-Custard, J.B. Hulscher & M. Kersten; title: ^; title: Time and energy budgets of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus occupying territories of different quality / M. Kersten; title: Central place foraging in oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus : can parents that transport mussels Mytilus edulis to their young profit from size selection? / M.F. Leopold., J.F. van Elk & Y.M. van Heezik; title: Seasonal and annual variation in body weight, nutrient stores and mortality of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus / L. Zwarts, J.B. Hulscher, K. Koopman, T. Piersma & P.M. Zegers; title: Short-term variation in the body weight of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus : effect of exposure time by day and night, temperature and wind force / L. Zwarts, J.B. Hulscher, K. Koopman & P.M. Zegers; title: Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus sex ratios on the wintering grounds : the case of the Exe estuary / S.E.A. LeV. dit Durell & J.D. Goss-Custard; title: ^; title: Differences in population structure between two oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus roosts on the Burry Inlet, South Wales / S.E.A. LeV. dit Durell, S.J. Ormerod & P.J. Dare; title: Temporal variation in the social rank of adult oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus / R.W.G. Caldow & J.D. Goss-Custard; title: Predicting seasonal and annual fluctuations in the local exploitation of different prey by oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus : a ten-year study in the Wadden Sea / L. Zwarts, J.H. Wanink & B.J. Ens; title: Functional and numerical response of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus on shellfish populations / B.J. Ens, T. Merck, C.J. Smit & E.J. Bunskoeke; title: The effect of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus on shellfish populations / J.D. Goss-Custard, S. McGrorty & S.E.A. LeV. dit Durell; title: Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus winter mortality in The Netherlands : the effect of severe weather and food supply / C.J. Camphuysen, B.J. Ens, D. Heg, J.B. Hulscher, J. van der Meer & C.J. Smit; title: ^; title: The effect of an experimentally created mussel bed on bird densities and food intake of the oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus / B.J. Ens & D. Alting; title: Feeding behaviour of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus during a period of tidal manipulations / P.M. Meire; title: Distribution of oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus over a tidal flat in relation to their main prey species, cockles Cerastoderma edule and mussels Mytilus edulis : did it change after a substantial habitat loss? / P.M. Meire.