Spotlight | Tides, twilight and the moon
19 August 2021
by Deborah Buehler originally published in Wader Study 128(2) Imagine that you’re a Hudsonian Whimbrel Numenius hudsonicus, a relatively large shorebird, about 45 cm from head to tail. The tide is up (which means your workday is over), the sun has set, and now you need a safe place to rest – you and nearly 20,000 others. Where do you go? Can 20,000 large birds hide? In this issue of Wader Study, Sanders and colleagues describe a nocturnal roost site in South Carolina, which supports about
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