The effects of wing loading and gender on the escape flights of least sandpipers (Calidris minutilla) and western sandpipers (Calidris mauri)

By J. G. Burns, R. Ydenberg. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2002

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Intraspecific variation in avian pectoral muscle mass: constraints on maintaining manoeuvrability with increasing body mass (2007, background): “According to the aerodynamic prediction, heavy pre-migratory knots should have increased mpm much more than they did to avoid decreasing escape flight abilities with increasing mb. Increased mb impairing escape flight abilities of fuelling migrants was previously found in other waders (least sandpip”
Effects of Predation Danger on Migration Strategies of Sandpipers (2003, background): “Assuming increasing massspecific predation risk (Burns and Ydenberg 2002), individuals that built up larger reserves to make a direct flight would be both absolutely and relatively more vulnerable in British Columbia than those preparing for shorter flights along the coast.”
Death and danger at migratory stopovers: problems with “predation risk” (2003, background): “ Burns and Ydenberg 2002 ), use the word ‘‘predation risk’’ in a third quite different sense.”