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

Table 5

Sample size (), mean and standard error of time spent foraging, and foraging techniques used by species.

Species	Foraging techniques	Time spent foraging (s)
			Mean	Standard error
Little; heron	Pause-travel	53	68.62	5.69
	Tactile-hunting	0	0.00	0.00
	Visual-feeding	0	0.00	0.00
Lesser; adjutant	Pause-travel	17	134.65	18.50
	Tactile-hunting	56	77.34	8.13
	Visual-feeding	2	24.00	4.00
Whimbrel	Pause-travel	0	0.00	0.00
	Tactile-hunting	33	36.70	2.03
	Visual-feeding	5	120.00	0.00
Common; redshank	Pause-travel	2	50.00	0.00
	Tactile-hunting	171	46.09	2.58
	Visual-feeding	32	39.53	2.54