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1 Catching and ane!ling birds, anel data: practical papers published in the Waeler Stuely Group Bulletin David A. Stroud and N.C. Davidson (editors) Wader Study Group Bulletin 69, Special Issue international Wader Studies 6

2 Photos by Nick Davidson and David Stroud Illustrations by Andrew Mackay, Andrea Fisher and Hans Schekkerman Front cover photograph by Guy Morrison: Following a radio-tagged Knot back to the nest. Ellesmere Island, Canada Typing by Ann Williams, Sylvia Way, Linda Porter, Carol Soar, Sheila Gorman, Jackie Ford and Janet Bailey DTP by Maria Wren-Sargent, Avian Demography Unit, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa Digital image editing by Ren6 Navarro, Avian Demography Unit, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa Printing by Fotoplate and Mills Litho Book Printers, PO Box 4503, Cape Town 8000, South Africa Published by the Wader Study Group, with financial assistance from the UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee and the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries of the Netherlands/Directorate for Nature Management JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE Recommended citation: Stroud, D.A. & Davidson, N.C. (eds) Catching and handling birds, and data: practical papers published in the Wader Study Group Bulletin. Wader Study Group Bulletin 69, Special Issue. International Wader Studies 6. ISSN:

3 Catching and handling birds, and data: practical papers published in the Wader Study Group Bulletin Edited by David A. Stroud and N.C. Davidson Wader Study Group Bulletin 69, Special Issue International Wader Studies 6 Published in 2003

4 Contents When citing papers reprinted in this supplementary Bulletin, do not use this Bulletin volume number or pagination, otherwise bibliographichaos will ensue!! Please use the original citation which is given here and in the title header for each paper. Title Authors Original Bulletin citation Pages in this volume Preface iv The Odessa Protocol on International Co-operation on Migratory Flyway Research and Conservation Catching, ringing and marking: cannon-netting Catching Lapwings with cannon-nets Troubles with projectiles Projectiles again Catching waders with a 'wilsternet' A simple rapid method of moving a set cannon net with minimal disruption A glossary of cannon netting terms A method of roping a cannon-net Minton, C.D.T : Green, G.H : Green, G.H :9 8-9 Koopman, K. & Hulscher, J.B : Clark, N.A : Minton, C.D.T. Clark, N.A : : Catching, ringing and marking: cages and boxes Instructions for the construction of boxes Sheldon, J. & Williams, A. suitable for the keeping of waders Keeping-cages and keeping-boxes Clark, N.A : : Catching, ringing and marking: cramp studies Curlew, cramp and keeping cages Leg paralysis in captured waders Further notes on Curlew cramp and keeping cages Capture myopathy ('cramp') in waders Occurence of 'cramp' in a catch of Bar-tailed Godwits Limosa lapponica Possible capture myopathy in Bar-tailed Godwits Limosa lapponica in Australia Leg 'cramp' and endoparasites Valium against leg cramp in waders Stress myopathy in captured waders Bainbridge, I. Green, G.H. Stanyard, D.J. Green, G.H. Minton, C.D.T. Purchase, D. & Minton, C.D.T : : : : : : Melville, D :11 33 Piersma, T. Blomert, A-M. & : Klaassen, M. Minton, C.D.T : Catching, ringing and marking: nesting birds Methods of catching and studying breeding waders Methods of catching and studying breeding waders - an addendum Methods of catching and studying breeding waders - continued again Catching breeding waders on their nests Alternative wader catching Ferns, P. & Green, G.H. Green, G.H., Ferns, P.N. & Bishop, R.M. Pienkowski, M.W. Koopman, K. & Hulscher, J. Lessells, K. & Leslie, R : : : : : Bulletin 69 Special Issue July 1993

5 i i Wader Study Group Bulletin When citing papers reprinted this supplementary Bulletin, do not use this Bulletin volume number or pagination, otherwise bibliographic chaos will ensue!! Please use the original citation which is given here and in the title header for each paper. Title Authors Original Bulletin citation Pages in this volume Catching, ringing and marking: rings and flags Ringing Oystercatchers Rings above the 'knee' Ringwear on Turnstones Leg 'flags': temporary colour rings Permanent leg flags Are wader flocks random groupings? - a knotty problem Rationale and suggestions for a hemispheric color-marking scheme for shorebirds: a way to avoid chaos Anon :17 49 Anon :8 49 Clapham, C :32 49 Goodyer, L.R., Symonds, F. & :12 50 Evans, P.R. Clark, N.A :19 50 Harrington, B.A. & Leddy, L.E : Myers, J.P., Maron, J.C., Ortiz E.T., : Castro G.V., Howe, M.A., Morrison, R.I.G. & Hardngton, B.A. Catching, ringing and marking: radio-telemetry Radio-tracking of Golden Plover Pluvialis Yalden, D.W. apricaria chicks Attachment of radio-transmitters to sandpipers: Wamock, N. & Wamock, S. review and methods : : Catching, ringing and marking: estimating mortality Estimating pre-fledging mortality from ringing data: a proposal Estimating the pre-fledging mortality of waders: a comment on Yates' proposal Estimating pre-fledging survival rates: a request for information Yates, B.J. Redfern, C.P.F. Green, R.H : : :7 66 Morphometrics: plumage and ageing Giving details of age for Oystercatchers on BTO tinging schedules Problems with the ageing of Dunlins in autumn Ageing criteria for Dunlins Further observations on the wing plumage of Dunlins Axillary feathers colour patterns as indicators of the breeding origin of Bar-tailed Godwits The head pattern of Black-winged Stilts Ruffnet: a ringing study of plumage and behavioural polymorphisms in Ruff Mead, C. Gromadzka, J. & Przystupa, B. Clark, N. Gromadzka, J. Nieboer, E., Cronau, J., Letschert, J. & van der Have, T. Xeira, A. Lank, D.B. & Piersma, T : : : : : : : Morphometrics: moult On the rate of change of moult scores in waders Unbending moult data Estimates of the duration of primary moult of the Redshank Summers, R.W. Summers, R.W., Swann, R.L. & Nicoll, M. Summers, R.W : : :5 81 Bulletin 69 Special Issue July 1993

6 Contents i When citing papers reprinted in this supplementary Bulletin, do not use this Bulletin volume number or pagination, otherwise bibliographic chaos will ensue!! Please use the original citation which is given here and in the title header for each paper. Title Authors Original Bulletin citation Pages in this volume Partial primary moult in first-spring/summer Common Sandpipers Actitis hypoleucos Estimating the parameters for primary moult - a new statistical model The primary moult of breeding Dunlins Calidris alpina in the central Taymyr in 1989 Relative masses of primary feathers in waders Nicoll, M. & Kemp, P. Underhill, L.G. Kania, W. Underhill, L.G. & Summers, R.W : : : : Morphometrics: measurement and adult biometrics Woodcock Research Group (IWRB) The value of bill lengths of museum specimens in biometric studies Seasonal changes in bill lengths of Knots, and a comment on bill measuring techniques for waders Total head length A simple 'head-and-bill' rule Correct measurement of the wing-length of waders Biometrics in waders Shorten, M. Summers, R.W. Pienkowski, M.W. Green, G.H. Reynolds, C.M. Evans, P.R Discriminant and graphical analyses of Norwegian Wood, A.G. Knot biometrics: the sex and race problem revisited Englemoer, M., Roselaar, C.S., Nieboer, E. & Boere, G.C : :17: : : : : : : Morphometrics: egg and chick growth Nomograms for estimating the stage of incubation of wader eggs in the field Growth of Common Sandpiper chicks Predicting the hatching dates of Curlew Numenius arquata clutches Green, R. The prediction of hatching dates of Lapwing clutches Galbraith, H. & Green, R. Estimating the date of hatching of eggs of Yalden, D.W. & Yalden, P.E. Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria Holland, P.K. & Yalden, D.W. Grant, M.C : : : : : Statistics and data handling Introductory statistics 1 Introductory statistics 2 Introductory statistics 3 Introductory statistics 4 Introductory statistics 5 Random distribution of birds in flocks: significance testing A potential bias in log-transformed allometric equations Greenwood, J.J.D. Greenwood, J.J.D. Greenwood, J.J.D. Greenwood, J.J.D. Greenwood, J.J.D. Greenwood, J.J.D. Wood, A.G : : : : : : : Bulletin 69 Special Issue July 1993

7 Catching, ringing and marking: cannon-netting

8 Catching, ringing and marking- cages and boxes

9 Catching, ringing and marking- cramp studies

10 Catching, ringing and marking: nesting birds

11 Catching, ringing and marking: rings and flags

12 Catching, ringing and marking- radio-telemetry

13 Catching, ringing and marking- estimating mortality

14 Morphometrics: plumage and ageing

15 Morphometrics: moult

16 Morphometrics: measurement and adult biometrics

17 Morphometrics: egg and chick growth

18 Statistics and data handling

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