Writer & life-long birdwatcher. Formerly Director of Communications for BTO. #WaderTales blogs about #waders #shorebirds #ornithology
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Cute and critically endangered!
Spoon-billed Sandpiper blog published OTD in 2020, with four updates added since 🎂
wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
#ornithology #waders #shorebirds
Graham Appleton retweeted
BirdTrack graph for Woodcock shows that few continental birds have arrived in Britain & Ireland.
To conserve UK breeding population, most people think shooting season should not open on 1 October*
More here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/cat…
#ornithology
* 1 September in Scotland
Oystercatchers are more interesting than you might think!
Two examples of Icelandic 'chick and dad' movements 🔽
Please help to find more parents with colour-rings, to match up with tagged juveniles. Thanks!
Background:
wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
#ornithology
BirdTrack graph for Woodcock shows that few continental birds have arrived in Britain & Ireland.
To conserve UK breeding population, most people think shooting season should not open on 1 October*
More here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/cat…
#ornithology
* 1 September in Scotland
Graham Appleton retweeted
Another Bar-tailed Godwit anniversary.
Five years ago, Roeland Bom and colleagues introduced a new subspecies.
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#ornithology
Graham Appleton retweeted
Rethinking Bar-tailed Godwits in Europe/Africa.
Genetics study rewrites a migration story and sets new conservation priorities. 🎂1️⃣
wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
#ornithology
Another Bar-tailed Godwit anniversary.
Five years ago, Roeland Bom and colleagues introduced a new subspecies.
wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
#ornithology
Rethinking Bar-tailed Godwits in Europe/Africa.
Genetics study rewrites a migration story and sets new conservation priorities. 🎂1️⃣
wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
#ornithology
New paper on diet of nesting Black-tailed Godwits will be of interest to people working on conservation of waders nesting in grassland:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Lots more info on Black-tailed Godwits here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/abo…
#ornithology
Graham Appleton retweeted
If you're interested in wader migration ...
Four tales added to compendium of blogs about shorebird migration - Oystercatcher, Dotterel, Whimbrel and multispecies.
wadertales.wordpress.com/201… 🎂7⃣
#birds #shorebirds #waders #ornithology
Graham Appleton retweeted
"Where are my parents?"
Several juvenile Oystercatchers have been tracked from Iceland to Ireland/Britain but where are their colour-ringed parents?
More about project:
wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
Two examples - dads found in Heysham and at Dawlish Warren!
(amended map)
"Where are my parents?"
Several juvenile Oystercatchers have been tracked from Iceland to Ireland/Britain but where are their colour-ringed parents?
More about project:
wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
Two examples - dads found in Heysham and at Dawlish Warren!
(amended map)
If you're interested in wader migration ...
Four tales added to compendium of blogs about shorebird migration - Oystercatcher, Dotterel, Whimbrel and multispecies.
wadertales.wordpress.com/201… 🎂7⃣
#birds #shorebirds #waders #ornithology
Graham Appleton retweeted
The latest Oystercatcher WaderTales blog is a call for colour-ring sightings.
Verónica and colleagues are satellite-tracking juveniles but they need to know where their colour-ringed parents spend the winter.
Read about the earliest findings: wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
#birds
If waders are 'asked' to carry tracking devices, we need to make full use of the data, as discussed here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
Nice example: identifying hot-spots for Black-tailed Godwit and Eurasian Curlew ⬇️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
#ornithology
Graham Appleton retweeted
Icelandic Golden Plovers are on the way!
Many waders link Iceland and Ireland:
wadertales.wordpress.com/201…
Some Golden Plovers from Iceland will make it as far as France and Portugal.
@birdwatchireland.bsky.social
Map from Tómas Gunnarsson.
Icelandic Golden Plovers are on the way!
Many waders link Iceland and Ireland:
wadertales.wordpress.com/201…
Some Golden Plovers from Iceland will make it as far as France and Portugal.
@birdwatchireland.bsky.social
Map from Tómas Gunnarsson.
Graham Appleton retweeted
Icelandic Oystercatcher migration - a thread summarising eleven years of research by Verónica Méndez et al. The questions - and a call for colour-ring sightings:
wadertales.wordpress.com/201…
Published OTD in 2015. 🎂
#ornithology #waders #shorebirds
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