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Young Shorebird Ambassador Course” at Pak Thale-Laem Phak Bia Flyway Network Site, Thailand 2021-2022
EAAFP Small Grant Fund project by Bird Conservation Society Thailand Pak Thale-Laem Phak Bia is one of the three Flyway Network Sites (FNS) in Thailand. It is located on the coast of Phetchaburi in the Inner Gulf of Thailand. The site is internationally recognized as an important location of migratory shorebirds, most notably the […]
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World Migratory Bird Day 2021 invites us to reconnect with Nature by appreciating “bird songs and flight”
The World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD), a global annual campaign is held on every second Saturday of May and October, to raise awareness of migratory birds and calls for international cooperation to conserve them. Together with the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), the African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement, and Environment for the Americas, East Asian Australasian Flyway […]
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Results of the 2020 #LegflagChallenge Photo Contest
A novel photographic competition to get citizen scientists to spot migratory waterbirds and help their conservation. The results of the 2020 #LegflagChallenge Photo Contest is now out! Nearly 120 images of tagged waterbirds were submitted by birdwatchers and photographers from 11 countries across the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. The “Best Photo of tagged Waterbirds” winner is […]
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2020 World Migratory Bird Day #LegflagChallenge Photo Contest
#legflagChallenge Photo Contest The #LegflagChallenge Photo Contest aims to encourage birdwatchers, bird photographers and all kinds of citizen scientists to document and report sightings of waterbirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway that carry leg flags, tags and other types of attachments. Birds carrying these leg flags and tags provide crucial information about their life histories […]
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World Wetlands Day 2020 – Wetland Biodiversity Matters
Each year on 2nd February, people around the world celebrate World Wetlands Day, to mark the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) in Ramsar, Iran, on 2 February 1971. It is a day to raise global awareness about the vital role of wetlands and the biodiversity they support. This year, […]
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EAAFP supported the Bird Walk in Thailand in September/October 2019
Joined in 2010, Thailand is one of the 18 Partner Countries of EAAFP. There are three Flyway Network Sites: Krabi Estuary and Bay (EAAF 084), Pak Thale – Laem Phak Bia (EAAF 121) and Khok Kham (EAAF 122). The later two sites were important wintering sites of a key species of EAAFP – Spoon-billed Sandpiper […]
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The champion of the flyway ‘Lime 07’ offers yet another surprise!
Some say that the male Lime 07 is the champion of the EAA flyway, others named it Super Spoonie! We are delighted to share that Lime 07 is still alive and likely to breed again this year in our regular monitoring site at Meinypil’gyno, Chukotka, Russia. Here is a brief timeline of Lime 07, illustrating […]
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Thailand
Kingdom of Thailand EAAFP Member since: 2010 Number of EAAFP Flyway Network Sites: 3 Focal Point Contact: Dr. Jittinun Ruengverayudh Director of Biodiveristy Management Division, Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Email: jittinun2511@gmail.com; wetlandthaionep@gmail.com Tel: +66 2 265 6636 Thailand has been a Partner since 2010. It now […]
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper Conservation with the STA Sustainability Education Programme
Hiroshi Tomida, Manko Waterbird and Wetland Center, Japan Ewen Mcleish, St. Andrews International School Bangkok, Thailand Kiyomi Morita, St. Andrews International School Bangkok, Thailand Introduction As can be seen already, the number of migratory shorebirds is in rapid decline, posing a serious threat to biodiversity. Expanding coastal development has caused much damage. In addition, climate change will […]
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Thai Spoon-billed Sandpiper site being developed
Birdguides 29 July 2016 A key wintering site for Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers in the Bay of Bangkok is currently being filled in to make way for a solar farm. Situated in the Samut Sakhon province to the south-west of Bangkok, the saltpans at Khok Kham [EAAF122] are world-renowned among the birding world for holding large numbers […]
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