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Volume 116, issue 1

Review
An Atlas of Wader Populations in Africa and Western Eurasia
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Research papers

Sanderlings using African-Eurasian flyways: a review of current knowledge
J. Reneerkens, A. Benhoussa, H. Boland, M. Collier, K. Grond, K. Günther, G.T. Hallgrimsson, J. Hansen, W. Meissner, B. de Meulenaar, Y. Ntiamoa-Baidu, T. Piersma, M. Poot, M. van Roomen, R.W. Summers, P.S. Tomkovich & L.G. Underhill.
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How many Eurasian Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria and Northern Lapwings Vanellus vanellus winter in Great Britain? Results from a large-scale survey in 2006/07
S. Gillings & R.J. Fuller
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New estimates for wintering waders in coastal Sierra Leone
J. van der Winden, A. Siaka, S. Dirksen & M.J.M. Poot
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Ageing and Sexing series

Part 4: Ageing and sexing the Dunlin Calidris alpina
W. Meissner & M. Skakuj
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Short communications

First record of Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca feeding on grapsid crabs on an Argentinian estuary
G.O. García & C.A. Paterlini
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Second record after 139 years of Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus in Indonesia
M. Iqbal, A. Nurza & T.M. Sanir
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Attempted incubation and nest-maintenance behaviour of artificially deployed quail egg clutches by Hooded Plovers Thinornis rubricollis
D. Stojanovic, G. Maguire, M.A. Weston, C.R. Dickman & M.S. Crowther
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Can colour bands become valued acquired body parts?
Y.I. Verkuil & C.J. Hassell
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Forensic fibre analysis to determine the origins of leg-entangling threads on shorebirds: a case study
M.A. Weston, X. Liu, T. Tsuzuki, J. Fallaw & P. Dann
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Other material

Notes and News
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Thesis abstracts
D.M. Buehler, R. Carmona, T.M. Childers, S.L. Hood, P.D.B. Skrade
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Notice of the 2009 Annual General Meeting of the International Wader Study Group
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North American Shorebird Literature
compiled by B. Andres
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Can you help find the Slender-billed Curlew?
N. Crockford for the Slender-billed Curlew Working Group
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