Waders : the shorebirds of Australia / text and photographs, David Hollands ; foreword and specialist chapters, Clive Minton with some additional contributed photographs
xviii, 367 pages : color illustrations, color maps, portraits ; 22 x 30 cm
regular print
Contents
1. The waders -- 2. Migration -- 3. Migration by species -- 4. Bands, flags, trackers and geolocators -- 5. Geolocators and turnstones -- 6. Stone curlews -- 7. Oystercatchers -- 8. Stilts and red-necked avocet -- 9. Migratory plovers -- 10. Small resident plovers and dotterels -- 11. Lapwings -- 12. Plains wanderer -- 13. Jacanas -- 14. Australian painted snipe -- 15. Snipe -- 16. Godwits and Asian dowitcher -- 17. Curlews -- 18. Shanks and the larger sandpipers -- 19. Ruddy turnstone -- 20. Knots and small sandpipers -- 21. Ruff -- 22. Phalaropes -- 23. Pratincoles -- 24. The vagrants -- 25. Clive Minton -- 26. Wader groups and wader people -- 27. Wader breeding productivity -- 28. Water moult -- 29. Wader sites -- 30. Saemangeum and the shores of the Yellow Sea -- 31. Scales and Litmus -- 32. Field guide
Summary
This book provides a comprehensive account of all the 80 Australian species. Many make huge and hazardous migrations to and from distant parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Many take on colourful plumage for breeding, while others retain their full beauty throughout the year
