Resumen de Migration strategies of wintering populations of red knots calidris canutus rufa in South America: The role of parasite pressure

Verónica D'Amico, Marcelo N. Bertellotti, Allan J. Baker, Wallace R. Tellino Junior, Patricia M. González

• To test whether different migratory strategies in red knots (Calidris canutus rufa) are a response to spatial variation in parasite pressure at different marine wintering sites as predicted by the ¿parasite' hypothesis of Piersma (1997).