Japanese Journal of Ornithology
Online ISSN : 1881-9702
Print ISSN : 0040-9480
Artificial incubation and feeding of the Eastern Kentish Plover and the Little Ringed Plover
Hiromichi YAMASAKI
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1972 Volume 21 Issue 91-92 Pages 365-370

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The results of the artificial feedings on two kinds of plovers are as follows;
1. In chick stage the foods, mainly consisted of a mixture of boiled eggs and chickf oods, dried water-fleas and millet were given with larvae of grasshoppers, bees and cultured insects. In adult stage both dried water-flea (28%) and millet (72%) were given with boiled eggs and dried bonitoes, occasionally.
2. Each of body weight and wing length showed different sigmoid growth curve during the first forty-five days after hatching and then stopped, respectively. Those growth curves are essentially the same as wild.
3. June 28, 1972 three Eastern Kentish Plovers and the same numbers of the Little Ringed Plovers were released at Keino Matsubara, a sandhill with pine forest, Awaji Island.
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