... in their ‘osmoregulatory machinery’, but the metabolic consequences of salinity acclimatization are still not well understood. We investigated the effects of salinity on basal metabolic rate (BMR), body mass and daily energy consumption of a long-distance migratory shorebird, the dunlin ( Calidris alpina ), outside...

... of energy stores ( Blem, 1990 ; Biebach, 1996 ). Winter body mass patterns in grey plover Pluvialis squatarola ( Dugan et al., 1981 ), dunlin Calidris alpina ( Pienkowski et al., 1979 ) and red knot Calidris canutus ( Piersma et al., 1995 ) are similar among years, suggesting that internal...