Saturday, September 6, 2014

WATERBIRDS Table of Contents 37(3) September 2014

ARTICLES
Abundance and Trends of Colonial Waterbirds on the Large Lakes of Southern Manitoba.
Scott Wilson, Ron Bazin, Wendy Calvert, Terry J. Doyle, Stephen D. Earsom,
Stephen A. Oswald and Jennifer M. Arnold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . .       233

Productivity and Chick Growth Rates of Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus) and Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis) on the Isles Dernieres Barrier Island Refuge, Louisiana.
Tabitha M. Owen and Aaron R. Pierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .      245

Suitability of Coastal Marshes as Whooping Crane (Grus americana) Foraging Habitat in Southwest Louisiana, USA.
Sung-Ryong Kang and Sammy L. King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   254

A 24-Hour Time-Energy  Budget for Wintering American  Black Ducks  (Anas rubripes) and its Comparison to Allometric Estimations.
Orrin E. Jones, III, Christopher K. Williams and Paul M. Castelli. . . . . . . . .      264

Estimating Effects of Habitat Characteristics on Abundances of Three Species of Secretive Marsh Birds in Central Florida.
Bradley W. Alexander and Gary R. Hepp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    274

Comparison of Burning and Weed Barriers for Restoring Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) Nesting Habitat in the Gulf of Maine.
Juliet S. Lamb, C. Scott Hall, Stephen W. Kress and Curtice R. Griffin. . . . . . . . 286

Role of Benthic Substrate in Waterbird Distribution on Great Salt Lake, Utah.
Anthony J. Roberts and Michael R. Conover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    298

Dietary Segregation between Breeding Tern Species on the Persian Gulf Islands, Iran.
Farhad H. Tayefeh, Mohamed Zakaria, Hamid Amini, Jamshid Mohammadnejad,
Khosro Darnishi and Sirous Karami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .              307

Weather-related Winter Mortality of Eurasian Oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) in the Northeastern Wadden Sea.
Philipp Schwemmer, Bernd Halterlein, Olaf Geiter, Klaus Gunther, Victor M. Corman
and Stefan Garthe. . . . . .. . . . .. . ... . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .                319

NOTES
Breeding Population of Red-legged Cormorant (Phalacrocorax gaimardi) along the Araucania Region Coast, South-central Chile.
Rodrigo Barros, Heraldo V. Norambuena and Victor Raimilla. . . . . . . . . . .          331

An Inexpensive Technique for Capturing Gregarious Wading Birds on their Foraging Grounds.
John N. Brzorad and Alan D. Maccarone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .         335

Tracks of a Stilt-like Bird from the Early Eocene Green River Formation of Utah: Possible Earliest Evidence of the Recurvirostridae (Charadriiformes).

Storrs L. Olson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .      340