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Instruction to erecting of Scaly-sided Merganser artificial nest site
General notes Scaly-sided Merganser is extreme cavity nester. From the other hand the species inhabits only fast flowing clean rivers of third to seven order. Upper 40 km of river is not in use by this duck. Occurrence on flood-plain ponds and small creeks is irregular. Artificial nest site [ANS] occupation depends on forest […]
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The ‘Monument’ Spoon-billed Sandpiper ‘01’ returns to Rudong
Author: Christoph Zöckler (SBS Task Force Coordinator) The male Spoon-billed Sandpiper ‘01’ has bred not far from the village Meinypilgyno in Chukotka, Russia since at least 2010, but possibly for much longer. It is named ‘monument’ SBS as it always breeds near an old monument set up by the villagers, but as it happens, the bird’s […]
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LONG-DISTANCE AUSSIE TRAVELLERS ‘UNDER THREAT’
News Release by Fuller Lab Two once-common migratory birds have been nominated this week for admission to Australia’s list of threatened species. Catastrophic recent declines in populations of the curlew sandpiper and eastern curlew have resulted in their nomination for threatened status, based on work led by researchers at the Fuller Lab and the […]
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EAAFP Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force Newsletter for No.12 August 2014 published
Congratulations! The EAAFP Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force (SBS TF) is ten years old now. SBS TF has published its 12th newsletter in August 2014. This special issue covers 1) SBS-activities in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar, 2) SBS surveys and illegal mist netting surveys in SW Guangdong, China, 3) Spring activities in Rudong, China, 4) Spring Survey […]
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Searching for ‘Spoonies’ in Rudong , China
Posted on: June 29, 2014 Report by Bushwings Twenty minutes after high tide on the 2nd May 2014, I stepped onto the mudflats at Dongtai, Rudong, north east of Shanghai. For the next twenty-two days our mission was to search for the highly endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper. The tide here retreats at walking pace […]
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First hand-reared spoon-billed sandpiper returns to breed
Posted on: June 25, 2014 Report by Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper The first hand-reared spoon-billed sandpiper has returned to breed in Chukotka, Russia, where it was hatched two years ago. The spoon-billed sandpiper is unique in the animal kingdom for being born with a spoon-shaped beak. Numbers have declined by a quarter year on […]
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Plight of the Scaly-sided Merganser
Posted on: April 17, 2014 Author: Young-jin Kim Report by THE KOREA TIMES Courtesy of Robin Newlin / Birds Korea Degradation of Korean rivers posing challenge to endangered bird, experts say By Kim Young-jin With a bright orange bill and exquisite, maze-like patterns on its flanks, the Scaly-sided Merganser is a bird that should be […]
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First Meeting of North-East Asian Marine Protected Areas Network (NEAMPAN)
The North-East Asian Subregional Programme for Environmental Cooperation (NEASPEC) organized the first meeting of North-East Asian Marine Protected Areas Network (NEAMPAN) on 19th March 2014 in Incheon, Republic of Korea. The Meeting brought together members from China, Japan, Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation, and international marine programmes. EAAFP was represented, in addition to […]
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Inaugural meeting of the Arctic Migratory Birds Initiative (AMBI) in Montreal, Canada
The inaugural expert meeting of the Arctic Migratory Bird Initiative (AMBI) of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), an EAAFP Partner was held at the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal, Canada on 9th February. EAAFP Chief Executive, Spike Millington participated in the meeting. Other EAAFP Partners represented were USA, […]
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Spoon-billed Sandpipers Winter 2013-2014
Author: Philip D. Round Report by Bird Conservation Society of Thailand The following is a round-up of the Winter events from the Bird Conservation Society of Thailand: “This was an eventful winter in the precarious history of the declining population of Spoon-billed Sandpipers. An International Workshop, hosted by BCST, was held at the Ban Khung Nam […]
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