The Relationships between Morphological Characteristics and Foraging Behavior in Four Selected Species of Shorebirds and Water Birds Utilizing Tropical Mudflats

Table 1

Measurements of bill size and tarsus length based on previous studies.

Species	Literature	Bill length	Average bill length	Tarsus length	Average tarsus length
		(mm)	(mm)	(mm)	(mm)
Lesser adjutant	[22]	266.7	266.7	228.6	228.6
Common redshank	[23, 24]	43.7	42.8	51.6	49.6
		41.8		47.6
Little heron	[25]	75.0	75.0	49.0	49.0
Whimbrel	[26, 27]	87.2	84.6	55.9	59.9
		82.0		63.8