Tracking Red-necked stints (Calidris ruficollis) and Curlew sandpipers (Calidris ferruginea)  along the  East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF)

Simeon Lisovski

doi:10.15468/qwh83a

Tracking Red-necked stints (Calidris ruficollis) and Curlew sandpipers (Calidris ferruginea) along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF)

Citation

Lisovski S, Gosbell K, Minton C, Klaassen M. (2020) Migration strategy as an indicator of resilience to change in two shorebird species with contrasting population trajectories. J Anim Ecol. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13393 accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-05-22.

Description

Tracking study to identify the migration strategies of two very closely related shorebird species, the Curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) and the Red-necked stint (Calidris ruficollis), migrating from the same non-breeding site in Australia to similar breeding sites in the high Russian Arctic. Based on 13 Curlew sandpiper and 16 Red-necked stint tracks from light-level geolocator tags, individual Curlew sandpipers make use of fewer stopover areas along the flyway compared to Red-necked stints. Furthermore, and notably during northward migration, Curlew sandpipers have a higher dependency on fewer sites, both in terms of the percentage of individuals visiting key stopover sites and the relative time spent at those sites. While Curlew sandpipers rely mainly on the Yellow Sea region, that has recently experienced a sharp decline in suitable habitat, Red-necked stints make use of additional sites and spread their relative time en-route across sites more evenly.

Taxonomic Coverages

Calidris ferruginea
common name: Curlew sandpiper rank: species
Calidris ruficollis
common name: Red-necked stint

Geographic Coverages

East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF)

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Simeon Lisovski
originator
position: Principal Investigator
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Research, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Potsdam
DE
email: simeon.lisovski@gmail.com

Simeon Lisovski
metadata author
position: Principal Investigator
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Research, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Potsdam
DE
email: simeon.lisovski@gmail.com

OBIS Australia Node manager
publisher
position: OBIS Australia Data Manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
Castray Esplande
Hobart
7000
Tasmania
AU
email: obisau@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.obis.org.au

Simeon Lisovski
administrative point of contact
position: Principal Investigator
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Research, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Potsdam
DE
email: simeon.lisovski@gmail.com