Sentences with phrase «pectoral sandpipers»
Male pectoral sandpipers go 19 days without sleep, and father more offspring the longer they stay awake
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Pectoral sandpipers (Calidris melanotos) breed in the Arctic, where the sun never sets during the breeding season.
The opposite sex, on the other hand — the female red phalarope and male pectoral sandpiper — were gallivanting about at all hours, probably looking for new mates.
The male red phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius) and female pectoral sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) are the egg - sitting parents in their respective species — and both had a rest period at night.