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| Other authors / contributors: | Johnston, Victoria Helen.
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| ISBN: | 9780520953499
0520953495
9780520273108
0520273109
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Each year shorebirds from North and South America migrate thousands of miles to spend the summer in the Arctic. There they feed in shoreline marshes and estuaries along some of the most productive and pristine coasts anywhere. With so much available food they are able to reproduce almost explosively; and as winter approaches, they retreat south along with their offspring, to return to the Arctic the following spring. This remarkable pattern of movement and activity has been the object of intensive study by an international team of ornithologists who have spent a decade counting, surveying, and.
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| Other form: | Print version: Bart, Jonathan Robert. Arctic Shorebirds in North America : A Decade of Monitoring. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 9780520273108
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