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Spike’s Interview with Arctic breeding shorebirds expert Pavel Tomkovich
by Spike Millington Chief Executive of the EAAFP Secretariat Pavel Tomkovich is one of the most experienced and respected scientists working on Arctic breeding birds, particularly shorebirds. In July 2015, I had the opportunity to accompany Pavel to a couple of field sites near Meinapilgino, just south of the Arctic circle in Chukotka, Russia. In […]
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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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Dara-Laut Cina, Inilah Burung Pengembara Paling Langka di Dunia
[Read in English] This article originally from Mongabay Meskipun penampilan dara-laut cina (Chinese Crested Tern) sekilas mirip dengan dara-laut jambul, namun burung pengembara berparuh jingga kekuningan berujung hitam ini merupakan salah satu jenis burung paling langka di dunia. Berdasarkan riset BirdLife International, populasi burung ini diperkirakan kurang dari 50 individu dewasa di seluruh dunia, setengah […]
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Chinese Crested Tern is the rarest wanderer in the world
[Baca dalam bahasa Indonesia] This article originally from Mongabay was translated by EAAFP Secretariat. Although at a glance the Chinese Crested Tern (Thalasseus bersnteini) is similar to the Greater Crested Tern (Thalasseus bergii), the yellow tip at the black end of the yellow bill identifies it as one of the rarest birds in the world. […]
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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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Joint Shorebird Survey of the Onchon County Coast of DPRK
Joint Shorebird Survey of the Onchon County Coast of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) by Nature Conservation Union of Korea, DPRK and Pukorokoro Miranda Naturalists’ Trust, New Zealand, 5 – 7 May 2015 Pukorokoro Miranda Naturalists’ Trust Introduction Each year hundreds of thousands of migratory shorebirds stage in the Yellow Sea region during their […]
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Field Volunteers Required – 2015 Conservation Leadership Programme: Stopover Ecology of Spoon-billed Sandpipers and Nordmann’s Greenshanks at the Yellow Sea
Work type: Volunteer Location: South Jiangsu coast, China Time Required: August – October 2015 Project Description: The Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea (‘Critically Endangered’) and Nordmann’s Greenshank Tringa guttifer (‘Endangered’) are two of the most threatened migratory shorebird species in the world. They congregate in south Jiangsu coast in significant numbers during southward migration stopover. Habitat […]
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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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