Volume 117, issue 2
Published online on September 26, 2010
Research Papers
Phenology of waders in the Sidi Moussa–Walidia coastal wetlands, Morocco
Rhimou El Hamoumi & Mohamed Dakki
Associations in male plumage ornamentation and reproductive parameters in the Icelandic Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa islandica
Julia Schroeder, Maja Roodbergen, Jordi van Gestel1, Valentijn van den Brink, Niko M. Groen & Gerrit J. Gerritsen
Major decline in species-richness of waterbirds in the Pichavaram mangrove wetlands, southern India
S. Sandilyan, K. Thiyagesan & R. Nagarajan
Record numbers of grasshopper-eating waders (Oriental Pratincole, Oriental Plover, Little Curlew) on coastal west-Kimberley grasslands of NW Australia in mid February 2010
Theunis Piersma & Chris Hassell
Molecular sex-typing in shorebirds: a review of an essential method for research in evolution, ecology and conservation
Natalie Dos Remedios, Patricia L. M. Lee, TamÁs Székely, Deborah A. Dawson & Clemens Küpper
First measurements of metabolic rates in the Stone-Curlew, a nocturnal inland wader
Olivier Duriez, Cyril Eraud & Vincent Bretagnolle
First results using light level geolocators to track Red Knots in the Western Hemisphere show rapid and long intercontinental flights and new details of migration pathways
Lawrence J. Niles, Joanna Burger, Ronald R. Porter, Amanda D. Dey, Clive D.T. Minton, Patricia M. Gonzalez, Allan J. Baker, James W. Fox & Caleb Gordon
Leg flags versus colour rings: a comparison of marking methods using a small shorebird, the St Helena Wirebird
Fiona Burns, Tamás Székely & Mark Bolton
Ageing and Sexing Series
Part 7: Ageing and sexing the Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
Wlodzimierz Meissner, Przemyslaw Chylarecki & Michal Skakuj
Short Communications
Greenlandic Dunlins on passage in NE Iceland in spring
Gunnar Thor Hallgrimsson
Other material
Abstracts of Wader Theses
José A. Alves, Sarah M. Egington, Daniel B. Hayhow, Pedro M. Lourenço, Yvonne Ingje Verkuil,
Notes and News
Compiled by Silke Nebel
Book Review: Invisible Connections: Why Migrating Shorebirds Need the Yellow Sea
H. Sitters
International Wader Study Group Annual Report for 2009