Responses of incubating hooded plovers (Thinornis rubricollis) to disturbance Weston,MA and Elgar,MA 2007, Responses of incubating hooded plovers (Thinornis rubricollis) to disturbance, Journal of coastal research, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 569-576, doi: 10.2112/04-0151.1. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Responses of incubating hooded plovers (Thinornis rubricollis) to disturbance Author(s) Weston,MA orcid.org/0000-0002-8717-0410 Elgar,MA Journal name Journal of coastal research Volume number 23 Issue number 3 Start page 569 End page 576 Total pages 9 Publisher Coastal Education and Research Foundation Place of publication Coconut Creek, FL Publication date 2007-05 ISSN 0749-0208 1551-5036 Keyword(s) coastal birds coastal nesting species conservation management shorebirds threatened species Summary Hooded Plovers (Thinornis rubricollis) and recreationists co-occur on the ocean beaches of southern Australia, and it has been suggested that disturbance of the breeding birds by humans constitutes a conservation problem. This study examines whether humans disturb incubating Hooded Plovers and places that disturbance in context with naturally occurring disturbances. Incubating Hooded Plovers encountered and responded to a variety of human and natural stimuli. The most common response involved leaving the nest for a period of time (an "absence"), and humans were responsible for 33.1% of time spent off nests. The response rates of incubating birds varied with the type of stimulus, with higher than expected response rates to two species of potentially predatory birds. About 17% of encounters with potential causes of disturbance occurred while birds were already responding to other disturbance, and this prolonged the return to the nest. Absences from the nest that were not apparently caused by disturbance were shorter and less frequent than those caused by external disturbance stimuli. Nest habitat influenced the response to encounters with humans, and on average foredune nests suffered the greatest decrease in attendance per encounter. This study has confirmed that human disturbance is more frequent than natural disturbances, and that humans decrease nest attendance substantially and more than any other source of disturbance. Language eng DOI 10.2112/04-0151.1 Field of Research 050202 Conservation and Biodiversity Socio Economic Objective 970105 Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2007, Coastal Education and Research Foundation Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30067805 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Life and Environmental Sciences Centre for Integrative Ecology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 26 Nov 2014, 11:54:26 EST Thu, 27 Nov 2014, 04:03:15 EST Fri, 19 Dec 2014, 10:38:29 EST Thu, 29 Jan 2015, 09:18:20 EST Thu, 29 Jan 2015, 09:19:49 EST Thu, 29 Jan 2015, 09:20:54 EST Fri, 30 Jan 2015, 08:52:39 EST Fri, 30 Jan 2015, 09:34:42 EST Fri, 30 Jan 2015, 13:36:34 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 42 times in TR Web of Science Cited 58 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 226 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 26 Nov 2014, 11:54:26 EST

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