Calidris


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Calidris

 

a genus of birds of the family Charadriidae of the suborder Charadriiformes. The body is 12-23 cm long and has long, sharp wings. The bill is straight or slightly decurved. The coloration is dark with mottled markings above and white below. Sometimes the underparts are reddish yellow or black. There are 17 species, distributed mainly in the tundras of Europe, Asia, and North America. Fifteen species are found in the USSR. Most species migrate south for the winter, some traveling as far as the southern tip of Australia, Africa, or South America. The birds build nests on the ground. A clutch contains four eggs, which are incubated by both the male and the female. The birds feed mainly on small invertebrates, which they dig from the top layers of the soil or gather from the ground.

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Of the 80 specimens of Calidris fuscicollis examined, only 26 (32.
Feather mites of Calidris fuscicollis (Aves: Scolopacidae) in Brazil/Acaros plumicolas de Calidris fuscicollis (Aves: Scolopacidae) no Brasil
2003: Effects of human activity on the foraging behavior of sanderlings Calidris alba.
Responses of Eurasian woodcock Scolopax rusticola to simulated hunting disturbance
Choice of microhabitat in tactile foraging dunlins Calidris alpine: the importance of sediment penetrability.
Distribucion espacial y temporal de aves playeras (Orden: Charadriiformes) en Laguna San Ignacio, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Entre estas se cuenta con las colonias reproductivas de Oceanodroma markhami, "golondrina negra de la tempestad", especie de la cual se encontraron nidos activos en sectores descritos por Janhcke (1994); Haematopus palliatus "ostrero comun" el cual se reproduce cerca de las orillas de playa; asi como tambien Charadrius alexandrinus "chorlo nevado" y lugares de descanso de Calidris alba, "playerito blanco".
Aportes a la conservacion de Sternula lorata, "gaviotin peruano", en la Reserva Nacional de Paracas (RNP), ICA--Peru
Calidris will be integrated into Sabre Airline Solutions, a top global provider of integrated solutions and services for airlines and airports.
US Sabre takes over Iceland's Calidris
El 19 de octubre de 2008, un ejemplar fue observado alimentandose junto a un grupo de Calidris pusilla en medio de un camino afirmado, muy cerca del espejo lagunar en la parte sur de los humedales (Fig.
Adiciones a la avifauna de los Humedales de Ite, costa sur de Peru
Stomach contents of Calidris minutilla (n=6) collected 17 January and 28 February 1998 at Twin Buttes Reservoir, Tom Green County, Texas.
Stomach contents of Calidris minutilla (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae) wintering at a freshwater reservoir in west-central Texas
Austrian Airlines has entered into an agreement with Calidris, a provider of business change management solutions to the global airline industry.
Austrian Airlines to work with Calidris to improve its business
Calidris announced that British Airways has gone live with its Business Change Management solution, enabling British Air to create an Order Data Store combining customer information "from across the complete booking-to-fulfillment lifecycle in a single unified data layer.
Airline News - Europe
Agradezco tambien a Christian Bermudez a la fundacion CALIDRIS, y en especial a Jairo Oregon por facilitarme el desplazamiento a algunos lugares de colecta.
Riqueza de especies de Odonata Zigoptera por unidades fisiograficas en el departamento del Valle del Cauca
For example, the shorebirds known as red knots, Calidris canutus, have pressure sensors in their beaks, and they appear to use a low-frequency analog of active sonar for detecting clams (Piersma et al.
Infaunal hydraulics generate porewater pressure signals
Finnish airline Finnair Plc said on Tuesday (6 April) that it had signed an agreement with Icelandic company Calidris to buy an IT solution to enable advance passenger information (API) acquisition at the time of booking.
Finnair acquires API solution from Calidris

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