International Wader Studie A3

Catchingand •ane!lingbirds,aneldata:

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Catching and handling birds, and data:
practical papers publishedin the
WaderStudyGroup Bulletin

Edited by
David A. Stroud and N.C. Davidson

WaderStudyGroupBulletin69, SpecialIssue
International Wader Studies 6

Published in 2003

Contents
When citingpapersreprintedin thissupplementary
Bulletin,do not usethis Bulletinvolumenumberor pagination,otherwisebibliographic
chaoswill ensue!!Pleaseusetheoriginalcitationwhichis givenhereandin thetitleheaderfor eachpaper.

Title

Authors

Original
Bulletin
citation

Pages
in this
volume

Preface

iv

The OdessaProtocolon InternationalCo-operation
on
MigratoryFlyway ResearchandConservation
Catching, ringing and marking: cannon-netting

CatchingLapwingswith cannon-nets
Troubleswith projectiles
Projectilesagain

Catchingwaderswith a 'wilsternet'
A simplerapidmethodof movinga setcannon
net with minimal disruption
A glossaryof cannonnettingterms
A methodof ropinga cannon-net

Minton, C.D.T.

1976.18:7-9

5-6

Green, G.H.

1978.24:20-22

6-8

Green, G.H.

1980.29:9

8-9

Koopman,K. & Hulscher,J.B.

1979.26:10-12

9-12

Clark, N.A.

1980.28:32

12-13

Minton, C.D.T.

1980. 28:46-47

13-14

Clark, N.A.

1986.46:31-32

15-16

Catching, ringing and marking: cages and boxes
Instructions for the construction of boxes

Sheldon, J. & Williams, A.

1977.20:21-24

19-20

suitablefor the keepingof waders
Keeping-cages
andkeeping-boxes

Clark, N.A.

1986.46:32-33

21-22

Curlew, crampandkeepingcages
Leg paralysisin capturedwaders
Furthernoteson Curlewcrampandkeepingcages
Capturemyopathy('cramp') in waders
Occurenceof 'cramp' in a catchof Bar-tailed
GodwitsLimosalapponica
Possiblecapturemyopathyin Bar-tailedGodwits
Limosalapponicain Australia
Leg 'cramp' andendoparasites
Valium againstleg crampin waders

Bainbridge,I.

1976.16:6-8

25

Green, G.H.

1978.24:24

25-26

Stanyard,D.J.

1979.27:19-21

26-28

Stressmyopathyin capturedwaders

Minton, C.D.T.

Catching, ringing and marking: cramp studies

Green, G.H.

1980.28:15

Minton, C.D.T.

1980.28:15-16

29-30

29

Purchase, D. & Minton, C.D.T.

1982.34:24-26

30-33

Melville, D.

1982.35:11

Piersma, T. Blomert, A-M. &
Klaassen, M.

1991.63:39-41

33-35

1993.70:49-50

35-36

1975.16:9-12

39-40

33

Catching, ringing and marking: nesting birds

Methodsof catchingand studyingbreedingwaders Ferns, P. & Green, G.H.
Methodsof catchingand studyingbreedingwaders Green, G.H., Ferns, P.N. &
- an addendum
Bishop,R.M.
Methodsof catchingand studyingbreedingwaders Pienkowski, M.W.
- continuedagain
Catchingbreedingwaderson their nests

Koopman,K. & Hulscher,J.
Lessells, K. & Leslie, R.
Alternativewadercatching

1976. 17:21-24

41

1976. 18:14-15

42

1976.19:17-19

43-44

1977.20:17-21

44-46

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Wader StudyGroupBulletin

Whencitingpapers
reprinted
in thissupplementary

Bulletin,donotusethisBulletinvolumenumberorpagination,
otherwisebibliographic
chaos
will ensue!
! Please
usetheoriginalcitation
whichisgivenhereandin thetitleheader
foreachpaper.
Title

Authors

Original
Bulletin
citation

Pages
in this
volume

Catching, ringing and marking: rings and flags
RingingOystercatchers
Rings above the 'knee'
Ringwear on Turnstones

Anon.

1976.18:17

49

Anon.

1977.20:8

49

Clapham,C.

1978.23:32

49

Leg 'flags': temporarycolourrings

Goodyer,L.R., Symonds,F. &

1979.25:12

50

Evans, P.R.

Permanentleg flags
Are waderflocksrandomgroupings?
-

Clark, N.A.

1979.26:19

Harrington,B.A. & Leddy,L.E.

1982.36:21-21

51-52

a knotty problem
Rationaleandsuggestions
for a hemispheric
color-markingschemefor shorebirds:

Myers, J.P., Maron, J.C., Ortiz E.T.,
Castro G.V., Howe, M.A.,

1983.38:30-32

52-54

a way to avoid chaos

50

Morrison,R.I.G. & Hardngton,B.A.

Catching, ringing and marking: radio-telemetry
Radio-trackingof GoldenPlover Pluvialis
apricaria chicks

Yalden, D.W.

1991.63:41-44

57-59

Attachmentof radio-transmitters
to sandpipers:

Wamock,N. & Wamock,S.

1993.68:28-30

60-61

review and methods

Catching, ringing and marking: estimating mortality

Estimatingpre-fledgingmortalityfrom ringing
data:a proposal
Estimatingthe pre-fledgingmortalityof waders:
a commenton Yates' proposal
Estimatingpre-fledgingsurvivalrates:a request

Yates, B.J.

1981.33:1

65

Redfern, C.P.F.

1982.34:12

Green, R.H.

1984.40:7

66

Mead, C.

1983.39:61

69

Gromadzka,J. & Przystupa,B.

1984.41:19-20

65-66

for information

Morphometrics: plumage and ageing

Giving detailsof agefor Oystercatchers
on BTO
tinging schedules
Problemswith the ageingof Dunlinsin autumn

Ageingcriteriafor Dunlins
Furtherobservations
onthewingplumageof Dunlins
Axillary featherscolourpatternsasindicatorsof
the breedingorigin of Bar-tailedGodwits
The headpatternof Black-wingedStilts
Ruffnet:a ringingstudyof plumageand
behaviouralpolymorphisms
in Ruff

69-70

Clark, N.

1984.42:39

70-71

Gromadzka, J.

1985.44:32-33

71-72

Nieboer, E., Cronau,J., Letschert,J. &
van der Have, T.

1985.45:34

Xeira, A.

1987.50:29

Lank, D.B. & Piersma, T.

1988.53:4-5

On the rate of changeof moult scoresin waders
Unbendingmoult data

Summers, R.W.

1976.16:24

Summers, R.W., Swann, R.L. &
Nicoll, M.

1980. 30:12-13

Estimatesof the durationof primarymoult of

Summers,R.W.

1981.33:5

73
74
75-76

Morphometrics: moult

the Redshank

Bulletin69 Special Issue July 1993

79
80-81
81


Contents

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Bulletin,do not usethisBulletinvolumenumberor pagination,
otherwisebibliographic
chaos
will ensue!!
Please
usetheoriginalcitationwhichisgivenhereandin thetitleheaderforeachpaper.
Title

Authors

Original
Bulletin
citation

Partialprimarymoultin first-spring/summer

CommonSandpipers
Actitishypoleucos
Estimatingthe parameters
for primarymoult-

Pages
in this
volume

Nicoll, M. & Kemp, P.

1983.37:37-38

82-83

Underhill, L.G.

1985.44:27-29

83-85

Kania, W.

1990. 60:17-19

86-88

Underhill, L.G. & Summers, R.W.

1993.71:29-31

88-90

a new statistical model

The primarymoultof breedingDunlinsCalidris
alpina in the centralTaymyr in 1989
Relativemassesof primaryfeathersin waders

Morphometrics: measurement and adult biometrics
Shorten, M.

1975.15:12

Summers, R.W.

1976:17:10-11

93-94

Seasonalchangesin bill lengthsof Knots,anda
commenton bill measuring
techniques
for waders
Total headlength
A simple'head-and-bill'rule
Correctmeasurement
of the wing-lengthof waders

Pienkowski, M.W.

1976. 17:12-14

94-95

Green, G.H.

1980.29:18

Reynolds,C.M.

1986.48:12

Evans, P.R

1986.48:11

Biometrics

Englemoer,M., Roselaar,C.S.,

1987.51:44-47

98-101

1988.52:9-11

102-104

Green, R.

1984.42:36-39

107-110

Galbraith, H. & Green, R.

1985.43:16-18

110-112

Yalden, D.W. & Yalden, P.E.

1989.55:19-20

113-114

Holland, P.K. & Yalden, D.W.

1991.62:13-15

114-117

Grant, M.C.

1996.80:53-54

117-119

Introductorystatistics1

Greenwood, J.J.D.

1978.24:16-19

123-125

Introductorystatistics2
Introductorystatistics3
Introductorystatistics4
Introductorystatistics5

Greenwood, J.J.D.

1979.25:24-27

126-128

Greenwood, J.J.D.

1979.26:19-22

128-131

Greenwood, J.J.D.

1979.27:31-33

131-133

Greenwood, J.J.D.

1980.28:25-26

133-135

Random distribution

Greenwood, J.J.D.

1981.31:35

136-137

Wood, A.G.

1986.47:17-19

137-138

WoodcockResearchGroup(IWRB)
The valueof bill lengthsof museumspecimens

93

in biometric studies

in waders

96

97
97-98

Nieboer, E. & Boere, G.C.

Discriminantandgraphicalanalysesof Norwegian Wood, A.G.
Knotbiometrics:
thesexandraceproblemrevisited
Morphometrics: egg and chick growth

Nomogramsfor estimatingthe stageof incubation
of wadereggsin the field
Theprediction
of hatchingdatesof Lapwingclutches
Estimatingthe dateof hatchingof eggsof
GoldenPlover Pluvialis apricaria
Growthof CommonSandpiperchicks
Predictingthe hatchingdatesof Curlew
Numeniusarquata clutches
Statistics and data handling

of birds in flocks:

significancetesting
A potentialbiasin log-transformed
allometricequations

Bulletin 69 Special Issue July 1993

Catching,
ringing and marking:

cannon-netting


Catching,

ringing and marking-

cages and boxes


Catching,

ringing and marking-

cramp studies


Catching,

ringing and marking:

nesting birds


Catching,

ringing and marking:

rings and flags


Catching,
ringing and marking-

radio-telemetry


Catching,

ringing and marking-

estimating mortality


Morphometrics:

plumage and ageing


Morphometrics:

moult


Morphometrics:

measurement
adult

and

biometrics


Morphometrics:

egg and chick growth


Statistics

and data handling