Writer & life-long birdwatcher. Formerly Director of Communications for BTO. #WaderTales blogs about #waders #shorebirds #ornithology
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Good news!
RSPB in Norfolk will receive 3 more years of money for Ringed Plover protection work.
Distributions of plovers and people are predictable - which helps when you're trying to make sure that there is space for both!
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Early spring arrival in Iceland creates opportunities to adapt to breeding conditions - something that may pay dividends in a changing climate.
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Blog about paper by Josh Nightingale in IBIS
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Icelandic Oystercatcher migration - a thread summarising eleven years of research by Verónica Méndez et al. The questions - and a call for colour-ring sightings:
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Published OTD in 2015. 🎂
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Oystercatcher pairs can be both resident, both migrant or mixed.
Migratory behaviour must affect timing of nesting, surely?
So what happens when partners are on different schedules? wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
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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…
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Woodcock shooting season starts today in most of the UK (Scotland was 1 Sep).
Continental birds have not arrived yet so any shot birds will be red-listed British breeders.
GWCT suggests waiting until 1 December before targeting Woodcock.
More here:
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🎂 This ten-year old blog about breeding #Whimbrel may be of interest to researchers and volunteers involved in #Curlew conservation.
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Three 'wader species from the east' for which numbers peak in August and September. If you're seeing juvenile Curlew Sandpipers, look out for Little Stints too!
Blog about wader migration:
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@BirdTrack graphic from 2019
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#WaderTales started with a bang OTD in 2015. 🎂
First blog asked why volcanoes can be good for breeding #waders/#shorebirds.
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160 blogs have been read in 210 countries since 2015.
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Does headstarting* work?
Yes, in some circumstances.
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Paper by @donaldsonlynda1 et al.
* head-starting involves taking clutches of eggs, hatching them in incubators and rearing chicks in captivity
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Did some sums ...
160 WaderTales blogs about waders/shorebirds.
Over 270,000 words - longer than the longest 'Harry Potter' book - the equivalent of three average-length novels.
Recent Oystercatcher blog:
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Catalogue: wadertales.wordpress.com/abo…
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LPO is calling for permanent shooting ban for #Curlew & Black-tailed Godwit.
This would provide protection for thousands of both species that winter in and migrate through France.
Background:
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Map shows tracks of Curlew returning from France to breed in UK.
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American Oystercatcher in Britain/Ireland?
Run a 'scope through your local flocks!
And while you're at it, please help us to find more colour-ringed Icelandic birds, please!
Thanks!
More here:
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We don't know where this pretty juvenile Black-tailed Godwit will spend the next 20 months, but we do know that once a pattern is established, it will do the same thing every year for up to 30 years. BLOG.
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