Wader Study Group Bulletin | Vol 69 | No. 1

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Preface
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The Odessa Protocol on International Co-operation on Migratory Flyway Research and Conservation
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Catching, Ringing and Marking: Cannon-Netting

Catching Lapwings with Cannon Nets
C. D. T. Minton

Troubles with Projectiles
G. H. Green

Projectiles Again
G. H. Green

Catching Waders with a Wilsternet
Klaas Koopman and Jan B. Hulscher

A Simple Rapid Method of Moving a Set Cannon Net with Minimal Disruption
Nigel A. Clark

A Glossary of Cannon Netting Terms
C. D. Minton

A Method of Roping a Cannonnet
N. A. Clark

Catching, Ringing and Marking: Cages and Boxes

Instructions for the Construction of Boxes Suitable for the Keeping of Waders
Jack Sheldon and Anthony Williams

Keeping-cages and Keeping-boxes
Nigel A. Clark

Catching, Ringing and Marking: Cramp Studies

Curlew, Cramp and Keeping Cages
Bainbridge Ian

Leg Paralysis in Captured Waders
G. H. Green

Further Notes on Curlew Cramp and Keeping Cages
D. J. Stanyard

Capture Myopathy Cramp in Waders
G. H. Green

Occurrence of Cramp in a Catch of Bartailed Godwits Limosa Lapponica
C. D. Minton

Possible Capture Myopathy in Bartailed Godwits Limosa Lapponica in Australia
D. Purchase and C. D. Minton

Leg Cramp and Endoparasites
David S. Melville

Valium against Leg Cramp in Waders
Theunis Piersma, Anne-Marie Blomert, and Marcel Klaassen

Stress Myopathy in Captured Waders
C. D. T. Minton

Catching, Ringing and Marking: Nesting Birds

Methods of Catching and Studying Breeding Waders
Peter Ferns and Harry Green

Methods of Catching and Studying Breeding Waders - an Addendum
G. H. Green, P. N. Ferns, and R. M. Bishop

Methods of Catching and Studying Breeding Waders - Continued Again
Mike Pienkowski

Catching Breeding Waders on Their Nests
Klaas Koopman and Jan Hulscher

Alternative Wader Catching
Kate Lessells and Roderick Leslie

Catching, Ringing and Marking: Rings and Flags

Ringing Oystercatchers
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Rings Above the Knee
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Ringwear on Turnstones
Christopher Clapham

Leg Flags: Temporary Colour Rings
L. R. Goodyer, F. Symonds, and P. R. Evans

Permanent Leg Flags
Nigel A. Clark

Are Wader Flocks Random Grouping? - a Knotty Problem
Brian A. Harrington and Linda E. Leddy

Rationale and Suggestions for a Hemispheric Colour-marking Scheme for Shorebirds: a Way to Avoid Chaos
J. P. Myers, J. C. Maron, E. Ortiz, G. V. Castro, M. A. Howe, R. I. Morrison, and B. A. Harrington

Catching, Ringing and Marking: Radio-Telemetry

Radio-tracking of Golden Plover Pluvialis Apricaria Chicks
D. W. Yalden

Attachment of Radio-transmitters to Sandpipers: Review and Methods
Nils Warnock and Sarah Warnock

Catching, Ringing and Marking: Estimating Mortality

Estimating Pre-fledging Mortality from Ringing Data: a Proposal
Barry J. Yates

Estimating the Prefledging Mortality of Waders: a Comment on Yates Proposal
Christopher P. Redfern

Estimating Pre-fledging Survival Rates: a Request for Information
R. E. Green

Morphometrics: Plumage and Ageing

Giving Details of Age for Oystercatchers on Bto Ringing Schedules
Chris Mead

Problems with the Ageing of Dunlins in Autumn
Jadwlga Gromadzka and Bogdan Przystupa

Ageing Criteria for Dunlins
Nigel Clark

Further Observations on the Wing Plumage of Dunlins
Jadwiga Gromadzka

Axillary Feathers Colour Patterns as Indicators of the Breeding Origin of Bar-tailed Godwits
E. Nieboer, J. Cronau, R. De Goede, J. Letschert, and T. Van Have

The Head Pattern of Black-winged Stilts
Antonio Xeira

Ruffnet: a Ringing Study of Plumage and Behavioural Polymorphisms in Ruff
David B. Lank and Theunis Piersma

Morphometrics: Moult

On the Rate of Change of Moult Scores in Waders
R. W. Summers

Unbending Moult Data
R. W. Summers, R. L. Swann, and M. Nicoll

Estimates of the Duration of the Primary Moult of the Redshank
R. W. Summers

Partial Primary Moult in First-spring/summer Common Sandpipers Actitis Hypoleucos
M. Nicoll and P. Kemp

Estimating the Parameters for Primary Moult - a New Statistical Model
L. G. Underhill

The Primary Moult of Breeding Dunlins Calidris Alpina in the Central Taymyr in 1989
Wojclech Kania

Relative Masses of Primary Feathers in Waders
L. G. Underhill and R. W. Summers

Morphometrics: Measurement and Adult Biometrics

Woodcock Research Group Iwrb
Monica Shorten

The Value of Bill Lengths of Museum Specimens in Biometrie Studies
Ron Summers

Seasonal Changes in Bill Lengths of Knots, and a Comment on Bill Measuring Techniques for Waders
Mike Pienkowski

Total Head Length
G. H. Green

A Simple Head and Bill Ruler
C. M. Reynolds

Correct Measurement of the Wing-length of Waders
P. R. Evans

Biometrics in Waders
M. Engelmoer, C. S. Roselaar, E. Nieboer, and G. G. Boere

Discriminant and Graphical Analyses of Norwegian Knot Biometrics: the Sex and Race Problem Revisited
A. G. Wood

Morphometrics: Egg and Chick Growth

Nomograms for Estimating the Stage of Incubation of Wader Eggs in the Field
Rhys Green

The Prediction of Hatching Dates of Lapwing Clutches
Hector Galbraith and Rhys Green

Estimating the Date of Hatching of Eggs of Golden Plover Pluvialis Apricaria
D. W. Yalden and P. E. Yalden

Growth of Common Sandpiper Chicks
P. K. Holland and D. W. Yalden

Predicting the Hatching Dates of Curlew Numenius Arquata Clutches
Murray C. Grant

Statistics and Data Handling

Introductory Statistics 1
Jeremy J. Greenwood

Introductory Statistics 2
Jeremy J. Greenwood

Introductory Statistics 3
Jeremy J. Greenwood

Introductory Statistics 4
Jeremy J. Greenwood

Introductory Statistics 5
Jeremy J. Greenwood

Random Distribution in Birds in Flocks: Significance Testing
J. J. Greenwood

A Potential Bias in Log-transformed Allometric Equations
A. G. Wood