… We also analyzed 36 red knots that were killed after having been in captivity for at least 1
yr. Finally, a series of starved red knots was examined. Some of them died of starvation in …

… knots during late summer in the Dutch Wadden Sea. Their gizzards were measured using
ultrasonography and the knots’ … how knots may trade off digestive organ size against foraging …

… By studying this red knot population over a single season, we capitalized on the … Organ
size and functional demands in red knots refueling in Iceland: average size of different organs …

… size of “nutritional organs,” such as the stomach and intestines, and increases in the “exercise
organs… In this paper we examined morphological changes in Red Knots following arrival at …

… In Iceland, Red Knots not only accumulate large stores of fat … a simultaneous rebuilding of
various organs (eg restoration of … updated information on population size. Although numbers at …

… of the subcutaneous fat deposits, the breast muscles and the belly ravity of red knots (Calidris
canutus) over the three weeks when they stop over in Iceland to refuel for a further …

… We also analyzed 36 red knots that were killed after having been in captivity for at least 1 yr.
… nonbreeding red knots for analysis. The sex ratio was equal in the sample of 122 red knots …

… treatment effects on gizzard size. The present study now confirms that, despite maintaining
smaller organs than in the wild, red knots did develop digestive and excretory organs up to 36…

… To investigate the use of the ultrasound technique to monitor intraindividual changes in body
composition, we captured nine red knots at the end of July in the Dutch Wadden Sea, near …

… in the red knot (Calidris canutus), a medium-sized shorebird that … At these intertidal wintering
sites, red knots feed primarily on … (red knot, Calidris canutus) reflects shifts in organ sizes. …