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The one Spoon-billed Sandpiper and only photo from Meina!
Read in Korean by Baz Hughes 2 Jul 2015 Sorry for the silence everyone. It’s been all hands to the pumps, both here at Slimbridge and in Meina. What’s more the team in Meina are struggling with one of the dodgiest internet connections they’ve had in recent years, but we can now reveal the one […]
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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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Follow us following Spoonies to migrate – Spoon-billed Sandpiper Flyway Exchange
Vivian Fu, The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea, endearingly called ‘Spoony,’ is a small shorebird with a special spoon-like bill. The global population is now less than 200 pairs. Each year, this small shorebird flies from their wintering ground at South East Asia and southern China, passing through Japan, Korea and China, […]
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The incredible godwit migration
By Bruce McKinlay | Technical Advisor, Ecosystems and Species Department of Conservation – New Zealand Bar-tailed Godwits spend the Austral summer in New Zealand and Australia and each year they complete an epic journey from the Southern Hemisphere to the Yellow Sea, then Alaska, and then back again. Every September about 80,000 of them fly […]
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Relevant Scientific Articles updated in May 2015
If you need full scientific articles, please contact Dr Judit Szabo, the science officer. ANATIDAE Takekawa, J. Y., S. R. Heath, S. A. Iverson, N. Gaidet, J. Cappelle, T. Dodman, W. Hagemeijer, W. D. Eldridge, S. A. Petrie, G. S. Yarris, S. Manu, G. H. Olsen, D. J. Prosser, K. A. Spragens, D. C. […]
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Following Spoonies to migrate, Spoon-billed Sandpiper Flyway Exchange
by Jason Loghry from Birds Korea May 28 2015 Each year, Spoon-billed Sandpipers fly from their breeding ground in Siberia and pass through Japan, Korea and China, down to Southeast Asia for wintering. The main threat this species faces is increasing habitat loss (inter-tidal wetlands) all throughout its migratory and wintering range, in addition to […]
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More on Baer’s Pochard, Baer’s-like birds and Hybrids
Written by Dr. Nial Moores of Birds Korea Encouraged by discussions with some in the fledgling Baer’s Pochard Task Force, this second post follows on from the one last month on Baer’s Pochard Aythya baeri identification. The March post outlined some main features to look for and highlighted some major information gaps, including the identification of […]
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Metro Manila’s ‘secret’ wildlife sanctuary—and why it might disappear soon
By Lu-Ann Fuentes and Mads Bajarias GMA News Online March 11, 2015 Hidden in the grimy, murky heart of Metro Manila is a pristine nature preserve that’s home to hundreds of species of rare flora and fauna—and it may all soon disappear before we know it. The Las Piñas Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area (LPPCHEA) […]
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Scaly-sided Merganser Single Species International Action Plan – 2nd workshop
by EAAFP Scaly-sided Merganser Task Force Scaly-sided Merganser Task Force workshop on the 2nd workshop will be held on 23-25 September 2015 in Vladivostok, Russia. (1) sign off the Single Species International Action Plan; (2) provide direction for national Action Plans; (3) coordinate surveys within key states; and (4) provide direction to conservation breeding […]
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10,000 Relict Gulls
by Terry Townshend It was as recently as 1970 that RELICT GULL (Larus relictus, ??) was confirmed as a valid species. Before that it was thought to be either an eastern race of Mediterranean Gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) or a hybrid between Brown-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus) and Pallas’s Gull (Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus)! Since its rather late acceptance into the global ornithological fold […]
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