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Relevant Scientific Articles updated in November 2015
If you need full scientific articles, please contact Dr Judit Szabo, the science officer. Anatidae Shokhrin, V. P., and D. V. Solovyeva. 2014. Broods of the Scaly-sided merganser (Mergus squamatus) in the river basin of Kievka and adjacent territories (Primorskii Krai). Amurian zoological journal VI:214-220. Avian Influenza and Other Diseases Miller, R. S., S. J. Sweeney, J. […]
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New Agreement for the Conservation of the Republic of Korea’s Top Coastal Wetland
Read in Korean By Mike Crosby, BirdLife International BirdLife International and the Government of Seocheon County have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding on the conservation of the Geum Estuary [EAAF100] in the Republic of Korea. The MoU was signed by Mr Pakrae Noh, the Mayor of Seocheon County, and Patricia Zurita, BirdLife’s Chief Executive […]
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International Migratory Waterbird Conference Kicks Off in Bonn
UNEP Press Release Migratory waterbird populations in decline globally, but latest status review shows that concentrated conservation actions can turn the tide Bonn, 9 November 2015 – Waterbird populations across the African-Eurasian flyway are on a downward trend, with declining populations outstripping growing ones by almost 50 per cent, shows the latest conservation status report […]
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Scaly-sided Merganser: seeing the benefit of conservation efforts
Peiqi Liu, WWF China Scaly-sided Mergansers leave the Russian Far East, perhaps DPR Korea, and north-eastern China when the first cold nights come in late October, only to return to these breeding grounds the following March, as soon as winter is over. This year, a merganser family, whose chicks were raised in one of […]
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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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Seeking Banding Records and Resight Observations of Beringian Dunlin throughout the EAAF
Rick Lanctot, Shorebird Working Group Chair Information on banding efforts and resightings of the four subspecies of Dunlin (Calidris alpina actites, arcticola, kistchinski, pacifica and sakhalina) that breed in Russia or Alaska, and migrate through or winter in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) are needed for a migratory connectivity study. The goal of this project is […]
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Headstarting continued: more great news from further along the flyway
by Roland Digby, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper The physical component of headstarting for me finished on 2 August, but the reality is that work never stops with any aspect of this project. There is always planning and preparation for the next year and, most excitingly for me, there are the reports from further along the […]
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Migration devastation
by Liu Xiangrui, China Daily 27 June 2012 Development of mudflats on the country’s eastern coast threatens migratory birds, including rare species. Liu Xiangrui reports in Beijing. While most scientists are proud of their breakthroughs, Dutch ornithologist Theunis Piersma, who discovered and named after himself a subspecies of the Red Knot (Calidris canutus), says he’s ashamed […]
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China’s land reclamation is endangering some of the world’s rarest waterbirds
By Spike Millington, Chief Executive of EAAFP In late April, the Bar-tailed Godwits, medium-sized wading birds that have spent the northern winter along the coasts of Australia and New Zealand, start to get restless. In the evenings, flocks spiral up into the gathering dusk, testing the winds, and if these are favourable they take off […]
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