Larids, Scolopacids, and Passerines Exploiting Ephemeral Prey at Talan Island, Russia

Authors

• Eric P. Hoberg, Animal Parasitic Disease Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of AgricultureFollow
• Alexander I. Kondratiev, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far Eastern Scientific Center
• Alexander S. Kitaysky, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far Eastern Scientific Center

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

Fall 1992

Citation

Northwestern Naturalist (autumn 1992) 73(2): 57-58.

Comments

U.S. government work.

Abstract

We report an unusual multispecies foraging assemblage that included larids, shorebirds and passerines which exploited a highly concentrated and ephemeral prey source over a period of three days in July and August 1988. During studies of breeding biology, food-habits and host-parasite ecology among a diverse colonial avifauna at Talan Island in the northern Sea of Okhotsk (59°18'N; 149°02'E) we observed the formation of mixed-species flocks during extreme high tides of July 31, August 1, and August 13, 1988.