LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The bird of the week for today is Pectoral Sandpiper. The Pectoral Sandpiper is a medium-sized, chunky shorebird. It is a long-distance migrant that breeds on the Arctic Tundra, ...

WASHINGTON — You fly more than 100 miles for love. You get rejected. You fly another 100 miles. Another rejection. And another. That’s the high-flying but futile sex life of the male pectoral ...

Pectoral sandpipers hunt for food in the mud flats of Lake Red Rock, a flood-control reservoir about 25 miles southeast of Des Moines. Photo by Stephen Dinsmore/Iowa State University. Nonstop flights ...

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WASHINGTON — You fly more than 100 miles for love. You get rejected. You fly another 100 miles. Another rejection. And another. That’s the high-flying but futile sex life of the male pectoral ...

Partying round the clock usually takes its toll - unless you happen to be a sex-mad male pectoral sandpiper. The birds avoid sleeping for weeks on end so as not to miss out on mating opportunities.

August urges me to listen; September advises me to pay attention to subtleties; October says wait until spring. Decades ago, I couldn’t have heard what they were telling me and couldn’t have ...

The mating system of pectoral sandpipers (Calidris melanotos) is called male dominance polygyny. This means that males compete intensely for females, but leave them without any resources but sperm and ...

You fly more than 100 miles for love. You get rejected. You fly another 100 miles. Another rejection. And another. That's the high-flying but futile sex life of the male pectoral sandpiper looking for ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. The reasons why birds construct nest scrapes, and the extent to which scrape designs reflect functional optima, are poorly understood.

WASHINGTON (AP) — You fly more than 100 miles for love. You get rejected. You fly another 100 miles. Another rejection. And another. That’s the high-flying but futile sex life of the male pectoral ...