LS Island Midsummer

Pronounced discrepancies exist especially between the numbers of red knots Calidris can utus islandica and C.c. canutus recorded during mid-winter counts in Europe and West Africa and estimates of numbers breeding in High Arctic Greenland-Canada and Siberia, respectively. Many more birds have been found on the wintering grounds than can be accounted for in the breeding areas. Two explanations have been offered. Whitfield et al. (1996) argued that, since there appear to be so few...

LS island midsummer

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