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2016 Seabird Survey in Tubbataha [EAAF123]
By Tubbataha Management Office Seabirds spend their entire life in the open ocean, using pelagic islands and islets as breeding sites and for raising their young. Although they have longer life spans, seabirds breed much slower and have fewer chicks than other birds. They are biological indicators of the health of the ocean. The Tubbataha […]
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Result of the International Black-faced Spoonbill Census 2016
Read in other languages: Yat-tung Yu, Coordinator, EAAFP Black-faced Spoonbill Working Group This year’s census was held on 15-17 January 2016. A total of 3,356 birds were recorded in 2016 census, having 84 birds more than the 3,272 birds recorded in 2015, which is an increase of 2.6%. The largest wintering population was found in Taiwan with […]
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EAAFP participates in second ASEAN conference on biodiversity
EAAFP Secretariat The second ASEAN Conference on Biodiversity 2016 was held from 15 to 19 February 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference, hosted by the Royal Thai Government, was organized around the theme “Biodiversity for Sustainable Development” by the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) in cooperation with the ASEAN Member States (AMS), the ASEAN Secretariat […]
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Plan to Save the Far Eastern Curlew
By David Lawrie on Pukorokoro Miranda News When a Far Eastern Curlew visited Pukorokoro last summer it was a rare event because it’s numbers are declining rapidly. Pukorokoro Miranda Naturalists’ Trust (PMNT) ’s international representative David Lawrie reports on a plan to save the world’s largest shorebird. Sightings of the Far Eastern Curlew at Pukorokoro Miranda […]
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Final Update for Wader Conservation World Watch 2015
Wader Quest Prize Draw: Winner 2015 Mike and Rose Clear New South Wales, Australia Wader Conservation World Watch is part of the Wader Conservation November initiative. 2015 results Together we have seen 125 species There have been 178 observers In 33 countries On 6 continents and all 9 flyways […]
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The Black-faced Spoonbill: Asia’s beloved wading bird fights for space
Doug Meigs, Mongabay This charismatic wading bird saw its numbers soar from just 288 individuals in the 1980’s, to over 3,000 in 2015, but coastal developers will need to find a way to share intertidal areas with these birds if they are to survive. The Black-faced Spoonbill, with its fascinating feeding behaviors, has won the […]
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EAAFP Seabird Working Group Update
Robb Kaler (Chair), Mark Carey and Yat-tung Yu (Coordinators) EAAFP Seabird Working Group 06 October 2015 Seabird Colony Database In collaboration with the New Zealand Department of Conservation and BirdLife International, we have added seabird colony data from New Zealand (including Campbell, Auckland, Adams, Chatham, Pitt, Forty-Fours, Raoul Islands) and islands in the South Pacific (Vanuatu, […]
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Tubbataha now an EAA Flyway Network Site
by Victoria Asuncion S. Mendoza Philippine Information Agency, Republic of the Philippines Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (TRNP) [EAAF123] is now a Flyway Network Site of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), a platform for international cooperation for the conservation of migratory waterbirds and the sustainable use of their habitats. Spike Millington, Chief Executive of the EAAFP announced […]
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Relevant Scientific Articles updated in June 2015
If you need full scientific articles, please contact Dr Judit Szabo, the science officer. Anatidae Zhang, Y., Q. Jia, H. H. T. Prins, L. Cao, and W. F. de Boer. 2015. Individual-Area Relationship Best Explains Goose Species Density in Wetlands. PLoS ONE 10:e0124972. Zeng, Q., L. Shi, L. Wen, J. Chen, H. Duo, and […]
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