Battley, P.F. 2002. Behavioural ecophysiology of migrating Great Knots. PhD thesis, Australian School of Environmental Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. See abstract
Battley, P.F. 1996. The ecology of migrant waders in New Zealand, focussing on Farewell Spit, North-West Nelson. MSc thesis (First-class Honours, Zoology), Department of Ecology, Massey University, Palmerston North
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Piersma, T., M. Brugge, B. Spaans & P.F. Battley. Endogenous circannual rhythmicity in body mass, molt and plumage of Great Knots (Calidris tenuirostris). Auk, in press.
van Gils, J.A., T. Piersma, A. Dekinga & P.F. Battley. 2006. Modelling phenotypic flexibility: an optimality analysis of gizzard size in red knots (Calidris canutus). Ardea 94: 409-420. Download PDF (798 kb)
Melville, D.S. & P.F. Battley. 2006. Shorebirds in New Zealand. Stilt 50: 269-277. Download PDF (93 kb)
Rogers, D.I., N. Moores & P.F. Battley. 2006. Northwards migration of shorebirds through Saemengeum, the Geum Estuary and Gomso Bay, South Korea in 2006. Stilt 50, 62-78. Download PDF (1 Meg)
Battley, P.F. 2007. Plumage and timing of migration in bar-tailed godwits: a comment on Drent et al. (2003). Oikos 116: 349-352. Download PDF (80 kb)
Battley, P.F. & C. Horn. 2006. A high altitude Bar-tailed Godwit on Mt Ruapehu. Notornis 53: 381-382. Download PDF (238 kb)
Battley, P.F. 2006. Consistent annual schedules in a migratory shorebird. Biology Letters 2: 517-520. Download online-early PDF (109 kb)
Moore, S.J., P.F. Battley, I.M. Henderson & C.J. Webb. 2006. The diet of brown teal (Anas chlorotis). New Zealand Journal of Ecology 30: 297-403. Download PDF (269 kb)
Rogers, D.I., P.F. Battley, T. Piersma, J.A. van Gils & K.G. Rogers. 2006. High tide habitat choice: modelling roost selection by shorebirds around a tropical bay. Animal Behaviour 73: 563-575. Download PDF (365 kb)
Moore, S.J. & P.F. Battley. 2006. Digestive organ morphology of wild and captive brown teal (Anas chlorotis) and implications for releases. Bird Conservation International 16: 253-264. Download PDF (97 kb)
Ballance, P.F., R. Schuckard, D.S. Melville & P.F. Battley. 2006. Dual sand sources on Farewell Spit intertidal sand flats, New Zealand: partitioning during redistribution. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 49: 91-99. Download PDF (1.8 Meg)
Battley, P.F. 2005. Mechanisms by which Bar-tailed Godwits form subgroups. Stilt 48:18. See text
Battley, P. & D. Rogers. 2006. Migration – Life in the Fast Lane. Chapter 3 In Geering, A.D.W., L. Agnew & S. Harding (eds). Shorebirds of Australia: their biology and conservation. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia. In press.
Battley, P.F., D.I. Rogers & C.J. Hassell. 2006. Pre-breeding moult, plumage, and evidence for a presupplemental moult in the Great Knot. Ibis 148: 27-38. Download PDF (207 kb)
Battley, P.F., D.I. Rogers, T. Piersma, C.J. Hassell, A. Boyle & H.-Y. Yang. 2005. How do red knots (Calidris canutus) leave Northwest Australia in May and reach the breeding grounds in June? Predictions of stopover times, fuelling rates and prey quality in the Yellow Sea. Journal of Avian Biology 36: 494-500. Download PDF (133 kb)
van Gils, J.A., P.F. Battley, T. Piersma & R. Drent. 2005. Reinterpretation of gizzard sizes of red knots world-wide emphasises overriding importance of prey quality at migratory stopover sites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 272: 2609-2618. Download PDF (263 kb)
Battley, P.F. & T. Piersma. 2005. Body composition and flight ranges of Bar-tailed Godwits (Limosa lapponica baueri) from New Zealand. Auk 122: 922-937. Download PDF (340 kb)
Battley, P.F., D.S. Melville, R. Schuckard & P.F. Ballance. 2005. Quantitative Survey of the Intertidal Benthos of Farewell Spit, Golden Bay. Marine Biodiversity Biosecurity Report. No. 7. 119 pp. See executive summary. Download pdf from the Biodiversity Information Online website (4.42 Meg)
Battley, P.F. & T. Piersma. 2005. Adaptive interplay between feeding ecology and features of the digestive tract. Pp. 201-227 In Starck, J.M. & T. Wang (eds). Physiological and ecological adaptations to feeding in vertebrates. Science Publishers, Enfield, USA. Download PDF (522 kb)
Battley, P.F. & S.J. Moore. 2004. Predation on non-breeding wrybills in the Firth of Thames. Notornis 51: 233-234. Download PDF (83 kb)
Rogers, D.I., P.F. Battley, J. Sparrow, A. Koolhaas & C.J. Hassell. 2004. Treatment of capture myopathy in shorebirds: a successful trial in North-western Australia. Journal of Field Ornithology 75: 157-164. Download PDF (265 kb)
Battley, P.F., T. Piersma, D.I. Rogers, A. Dekinga, B. Spaans & J. van Gils. 2004. Do body condition and plumage during fuelling predict northwards departure dates of Great Knots (Calidris tenuirostris) from North-west Australia? Ibis 146: 46-60. Download PDF (373 kb)
Battley, P.F., W.K. Vahl & B. Spaans. 2003. Turnstone retains egg in oviduct for five months. Wader Study Group Bulletin 101/102: 67-69. Download PDF (465 kb)
Pennycuick, C.J. & P.F. Battley. 2003. Burning the engine: a time-marching computation of fat and protein consumption in a 5420-km flight by great knots Calidris tenuirostris. Oikos 103: 323-332. Download PDF (167 kb)
Moore, S.J. & P.F. Battley. 2003. The use of wing remains to determine condition before death in Brown Teal (Anas chlorotis). Notornis 50: 133-140. Download PDF (219 kb)
Battley, P.F., D.I. Rogers, T. Piersma & A. Koolhaas. 2003. Behavioural evidence for heat load problems in Great Knots fuelling in tropical Australia for a northward flight of 5,500 km. Emu 103: 97-103. Download PDF (136 kb)
Moore, S.J. & P.F. Battley. 2003. Cockle-opening by a dabbling duck, the Brown Teal. Waterbirds 26: 331-334. Download PDF (191 kb)
Battley, P.F., M. Poot, C. Gordon, Y. Ntiamoa-Baidu, T. Piersma, & P. Wiersma. 2003. Social foraging by waterbirds in shallow coastal lagoons in Ghana. Waterbirds 26: 26-34. Download PDF (103 kb)
Battley, P.F., A. Dekinga, M.W. Dietz, T. Piersma, S. Tang & K. Hulsman. 2001. Basal metabolic rate declines during long-distance migratory flight in Great Knots. Condor 103: 838-845. Download PDF - WARNING 3.3 Meg! Alternatively, see abstract
Battley, P.F., M.W. Dietz, T. Piersma, A. Dekinga, S. Tang & K. Hulsman. 2001. Is long-distance bird flight equivalent to a high-energy fast? Body composition changes in freely migrating and captive fasting Great Knots. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 94: 435-449. Download PDF (221 kb)
Battley, P.F., T. Piersma, M.W. Dietz, S. Tang, A. Dekinga and K. Hulsman. 2000. Empirical evidence for differential organ reduction during trans-oceanic bird flight. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Biological series 267: 191-195. Download PDF of paper (274 kb) Important: Download PDF of erratum (88 kb)
Piersma, T., M.W. Dietz, A. Dekinga, S. Nebel, J. van Gils, P.F. Battley & B. Spaans. 2000. Reversible size-changes in stomachs of shorebirds: When, to what extent, and why? Proceedings of the 3rd European Ornithological Congress, Gdansk, September 1999. Acta Ornithologica 34: 175-181. Download PDF of paper (821 kb)
Battley, P.F. 1999. Seasonal mass changes of Lesser Knots in New Zealand. Notornis 46: 143-153. Download PDF of paper (542 kb)
Ntiamoa-Baidu, Y., T. Piersma, P. Wiersma, M. Poot, P. Battley & C. Gordon. 1998. Habitat selection, daily foraging routines and diet of waterbirds in coastal lagoons in Ghana. Ibis 140: 89-103.
Battley, P.F. & T. Piersma. 1997. The body composition of Lesser Knots Calidris canutus rogersi preparing to take off on migration from northern New Zealand. Notornis 44: 137-150. Download PDF of paper (544 kb)
Battley, P.F. 1997. The northward migration of Arctic waders in New Zealand: departure behaviour, timing and possible migration routes of Red Knots and Bar-tailed Godwits from Farewell Spit, North-West Nelson. Emu 97: 108-120. Download PDF of paper (337 kb)
Piersma, T., R. Hoekstra, A. Dekinga, A. Koolhas, P. Wolf., P.F. Battley & P. Wiersma. 1993. Scale and intensity of intertidal habitat use by knots Calidris canutus in the western Wadden Sea in relation to food, friends and foes. Netherlands Journal for Sea Research 31: 331-357.
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