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  • Functional association of bill morphology and foraging behaviour in calidrid sandpipers.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Although the Arctic generally contains a relatively low number of aquatic bird and mammal species as compared to more temperate ecozones, it is home to most of the world’s geese and calidrid sandpipers [19].

    Freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic 2009

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  • A group of Arctic-breeding, strongly migratory wading birds that form huge mixed flocks on coasts and estuaries in winter. Sometimes nicknamed "peeps."

    August 31, 2007