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The third tagged Spoonie CT is off!
14 November 2016 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper A satellite fix has just come in showing that the third tagged Spoon-billed Sandpiper has made a move away from the Jiangsu coast! CT, presumed to be male, has been at the Tiaozini mudflats on the Jiangsu coast since he was tagged in early October. His female counterparts […]
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Is ET heading for Myanmar? 1000km closer in the last 24 hours
05 November 2016 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Just a quick update to let you all know that ET, the satellite tagged Spoon-billed Sandpiper who yesterday, was just south of the island of Hainan, has flown across Vietnam, Laos and most of Thailand today! The last fix from her came in at 14:09 (UTC, 21:09 […]
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The tagged spoonies are on the move!
04 November 2016 Guy Anderson, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Last week we announced that we had fitted the first three satellite tags to wild Spoon-billed Sandpipers, in Jiangsu Province, China in early October. The three birds – ET, HU and CT – are named after the code on the engraved plastic leg flag each bird […]
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2017 Conservation Leadership Programme Team Awards: Call for Applications
Applications for the 2017 Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) Conservation Team Awards are now open! CLP aims to advance biodiversity conservation globally by building the leadership capabilities of early-career conservation professionals working in high-priority places with limited capacity to address conservation issues. CLP is a partnership of three of the world’s leading biodiversity conservation organisations, BirdLife International, […]
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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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Farmers choose solar farm over our endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers
Phuket Gazette 29 July 2016 SAMUT SAKHON: Given a choice between renewable energy and wildlife conservation, the people of Samut Sakhon have opted for a solar farm. Tractors and trucks loaded with soil were seen busily working in a field yesterday to fill a salt basin in Ban Khok Kham [EAAF122], where a three-megawatt solar […]
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News from the field: And they’re off!
27 July 2016 By Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Yesterday, the Spoon-billed Sandpiper headstarting programme successfully released 30 fledglings. That’s the most in a single year and means we’ve now released over 100 Spoon-billed Sandpipers (111 to be exact)! Roland has let us know that the release went to plan with all 30 fledgling […]
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On China’s Coast, Rare Bird Finds Little Room to Rest
Shi Yi, Sixth Tone It was the kind of news experts only believe if they see it with their own eyes: A man in China claimed he had spotted 100 Spoon-billed Sandpipers foraging on the muddy coast of the Yellow Sea. The bird is so small that it would barely cover the hand of a grown […]
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Relevant Scientific Articles updated in April 2016
If you need full scientific articles, please contact Dr Judit Szabo, the science officer. Anatidae Buhnerkempe, M. G., C. T. Webb, A. A. Merton, J. E. Buhnerkempe, G. H. Givens, R. S. Miller, and J. A. Hoeting. 2016. Identification of migratory bird flyways in North America using community detection on biological networks. Ecological Applications 26:740–751. […]
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