Ready to go Little Stints at Barberspan Bird Sanctuary
Posted by Prof. Les Underhill/Animal Demography Unit, South Africa This news item is part of the ADU's celebration of World Migratory Bird Day, this weekend 8–9 May.Post doc Magda Remisiewicz has made...
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International Shorebird Project
Posted by Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey We work with the International Shorebird Team to monitor, research and recover species of shorebirds including the red knot. Our work takes us to...
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Searching for Sociable Lapwing with Nature Iraq’s Omar Fadil
Written by Omar Fadil/Nature Iraq Since the invasion of 2003, many people have been struggling to survive in the chaos and bloodshed in Iraq . Even now the country’s far from safe. However, over the...
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Notes on the effects of volcanic eruption on migrant birds in Iceland
Written by Fuglavernd - BirdLife Iceland Jóhann Óli Hilmarsson, President of BirdLife Iceland, says that the volcanic eruption hasn’t had much effect on migrant birds. Eurasian Oystercatchers and...
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Colour Ringed Red Knots
Written by Richard Smith/Dee Estuary Birding Although numbers can vary greatly from day to day, let alone from winter to winter, the Red Knot is generally regarded as one of the most numerous waders...
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Arctic-breeding birds will be among next victims of the Gulf oil disaster
Posted by Audubon via BirdLife International For the next six months, beginning in early July, tens of millions of shorebirds, waterfowl and other migratory birds will land on oiled beaches, in...
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Dates set for the 2010 fall migration shorebird counts: a new WorldWaders...
Written by Gyorgy Szimuly/WorldWaders The migration period attracts more and more birdwatchers to go out and find rarities while others are counting birds for conservation purposes. While many people...
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Sociable Lapwings embark on an Amazing Journey
Written by Jim Lawrence BirdLife International, RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) and leading optics manufacturer Swarovski Optik have just launched a remarkable new interactive website The Amazing Journey...
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Shorebird researchers document Red Knot's record-breaking flight
Meredith Gutowski, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences This past spring, a 6-ounce Red Knot (Calidris canutus) – a shorebird only two-thirds the size of a city pigeon – flew non-stop for six days...
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Important staging site of Sociable Lapwing identified in East Turkey
Written by Gyorgy Szimuly/WorldWaders Recent report by the Sociable Lapwing project team suggests that an important staging site was identified for Sociable Lapwing in East Turkey. Staging flock was...
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Hope returns to the Delmarva Peninsula
Written by Dr. Bryan D. Watts/Center for Conservation Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University & Barry Truitt/The Nature Conservancy The odyssey of Hope, a whimbrel carrying a satellite...
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Great Snipe is the fastest migratory bird ever discovered
Written by Planet Earth Online Apart from its long, elegant beak, the great snipe looks just like any other wading bird. But researchers have found that this ordinary-looking creature could well be...
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Plovers tracked across the Pacific
Written by Planet Earth Online Scientists have monitored Pacific Golden Plovers for the first time as they migrate thousands of kilometres nonstop from Hawaii to Alaska in spring and back again in...
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Machi a shorebird tracked by scientists survives tropical storm only to be...
Written by Fletcher M. Smith/Center for Conservation Biology, College of William and Mary, Virginia Commonwealth University Scientists at the Center for Conservation Biology learned today that a...
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Written by Dr. Bryan D. Watts/Center for Conservation Biology, College of William and Mary, Virginia Commonwealth University Scientists at the Center for Conservation Biology have determined that a...
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Surprise report from troubled Syria
Written by BirdLife Community/BirdLife International During the current Syrian Uprising, travelling even short distances around the country has become very difficult and is in many cases extremely...
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Brassy whimbrels fly more than 2,500 miles out to sea and through the heart...
Scientists at the Center for Conservation Biology (CCB) have tracked 3 whimbrels off the east coast of Canada to the northern shore of South America via a previously unknown migration pathway over the...
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Pingo: The Whimbrel Around the Tropical Storm Isaac
Written by Fletcher M Smith Pingo, the Whimbrel has striked around the Tropical Storm Isaac and is likely headed for either French Guiana or Brazil. As of 22 August at 11PM (Eastern time) the bird was...
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