The Bristle-thighed #Curlew was until relatively recently categorised as 'vulnerable' but is now 'near-threatened' (slightly less worrying).
Why are all of the world's #Curlew in trouble?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/03/01/why…
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology

Not-so-Common Sandpipers (and stuff about Spotted Sandpipers too)
Blog from 4 May 2019 based on book Phil Holland.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/05/04/not…
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology
🎂5⃣

Whimbrel guarding the entrance to the harbour on L Melvin - didn't like to disturb them when they've a long flight to Iceland ahead. #Leitrim #Fermanagh

Not-so-Common Sandpipers (and stuff about Spotted Sandpipers too)
Blog from 4 May 2019 based on book Phil Holland.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/05/04/not…
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology
🎂5⃣

The Bristle-thighed #Curlew was until relatively recently categorised as 'vulnerable' but is now 'near-threatened' (slightly less worrying).
Why are all of the world's #Curlew in trouble?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/03/01/why…
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology

The last three years have seen autumn peaks of 71, 59 and 62 here, usually nearer 20-30, a change seen elsewhere?

In 2016, I wrote an #Oystercatcher blog about the species' decline and its changing nesting habits:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/oys…
New Franz Löffler paper demonstrates benefits of nesting on urban roofs & feeding on playing fields:
nature.com/articles/s4159…
Graphic from 2016 👇

CRITICALLY ENDANGERED Spoon-billed Sandpipers.
Valuable information to add to earlier tracking study. Lots more here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/10/22/spo…
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology

The Yellow Sea - refuelling station for vast numbers of #shorebirds #waders .
Blog about paper that highlighted the urgent need for conservation action (1 May 2017 🎂7⃣): wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/wad…
Subsequent initiatives have created refuges in 🇨🇳🇰🇷🇰🇵
#ornithology

Golf course break, en route from West Africa to #Iceland .
In autumn these #Whimbrel will make the return journey without stopping.
Learn more here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/ice…

Honoured but sad to write an #OpenAccess obituary for Mark Smart in the latest issue of Wader Study (with Jen Gill (she/her)):
waderstudygroup.org/article/17884/
More about his work for breeding #waders here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/06/14/man…
#ornithology

Harking back to May 3, 2022.
Ringed Plover was the focus for tweet number 27 in a 30-tweet thread about migration of #waders #shorebirds .
Only Turnstone, Knot and Grey Plover left

Individual #waders #shorebirds tend to use the same 'service stations' when refuelling during long migratory flights.
More about fidelity in this Black-tailed Godwit blog.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/07/29/gen…
Jen Gill (she/her) José A. Alves Camilo Carneiro

Harking back to May 3, 2022.
Ringed Plover was the focus for tweet number 27 in a 30-tweet thread about migration of #waders #shorebirds .
Only Turnstone, Knot and Grey Plover left

The Yellow Sea - refuelling station for vast numbers of #shorebirds #waders .
Blog about paper that highlighted the urgent need for conservation action (1 May 2017 🎂7⃣):
wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/wad…
Subsequent initiatives have created refuges in 🇨🇳🇰🇷🇰🇵
#ornithology

NB BirdLife Science is likely to open during 3-13 May forums.birdlife.org/red-list-chang…… for comments on proposals to uplist Dunlin (in October) on the IUCN Red List from Least Concern to the status of Globally Near Threatened with extinction (driven mainly by declines in the Americas).

Swallow is another species where the reporting rate (from complete lists) is down a bit this year. Please keep your complete lists coming in!

📷Amy Lewis

Golf course break, en route from West Africa to #Iceland .
In autumn these #Whimbrel will make the return journey without stopping.
Learn more here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/ice…

Wow - that's an early Curlew chick.
Here's hoping this little guy fledges.
Based on a BTO paper by Aonghais, I estimate that 10,000 too few #Curlew are fledging each year in the UK:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/mor…
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology

On 2 May, it's time to think about #Sanderling .
Migration of #waders #shorebirds to, through and from 🇬🇧 & 🇮🇪.
Number2⃣5⃣ in 30-tweet thread from 2022.
x.com/GrahamFAppleto…
#ornithology #phenology
Graph from BirdTrack