Artificial Incubation and Feeding of the Eastern Kentish Plover and the Little Ringed Plover

27 Mar Artificial Incubation and Feeding of the Eastern Kentish Plover and the Little Ringed Plover

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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, occasio lly.
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.