A Conservation Evidence success story.
Impact assessments need to account for the fact that birds move!
Blog from 7 Apr 2023🎂
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Paper by Josh Nightingale | Global Wader was cited as evidence in decision not to renew the environmental licence for new airport.
#ornithology

Huge thanks to 312 people who have completed this! We haven't received many reponses particualrly from Portuguese/Spanish speakers. Pls let us know your thoughs on how we can overome #languagebarriers ICCB:
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In the LATEST ISSUE of BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈

Icelandic Whimbrel first migration: Non-stop until West Africa, yet later departure and slower travel than adults | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Camilo Carneiro Tómas Gunnarsson Triin Kaasiku Theunis Piersma José A. Alves | #ornithology

Wind-blown?
Please look out for flocks of Black-tailed Godwits in strange places - and check for colour-rings.
Blog from 21 March 2017 🎂7⃣
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#waders #shorebirds #ornithology

BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 Special Issue | Avian Reproduction

Does early spring arrival lead to early nesting in a migratory shorebird? Insights from remote tracking | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Josh Nightingale | Global Wader et al Jen Gill (she/her) Afonso Rocha Ruth Howison José A. Alves | #ornithology

Godwits trump airport.
Thanks to everyone who supported José Alves and colleagues in their efforts to point out deficiencies in early impact assessment.
2019 blog about the proposed airport:
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2023 blog about Black-tailed Godwits:
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The very best news! The waterbirds of the Tagus Estuary are saved 🥳

L'enhorabona a tot l'equip! Quan la recerca va més enllà de les revistes i s'utilitza per a prendre decisions importants. Revocada la llicència mediambiental pel 2n aeroport de Lisboa i victòria exemplar de la biologia de la conservació!

Fantastic news - the #TagusAirport is finally stopped. A rare but incredibly important win for conservation!

The news that broke some weeks ago is confirmed.👇

An important victory for Godwits and other migratory birds for whom the Tagus is a key node in the migratory network. 🥳 Hats off once again to the Eco Flyway team for proving the cynics wrong and that science matters! 💪✊

What a fantastic handful of resightings from #waders read by a local team that is carrying out bird surveys in the #Bijagós archipelago as part of Nelson Gomes' MSc.
Congrats!

Know more about these birds 👇
lucanus.cm-lousada.pt/2022/02/15/ave…

#conservation
#biodiversity
#waders ofbijagos

In the last year, #WaderTales blogs have been read in 142 countries (WordPress data).
Mind blowing.
Favourite blogs:
1⃣ Migration
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2⃣ Oystercatchers
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3⃣ Impact assessment
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#waders #shorebirds #ornithology

Great to see my recent #paper discussing how #nature influences our sense of #time catching media interest around the world! Below an example from Argentina 🤩(link to the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/pan3.1…) People and Nature Faculty of Science - University of Turku Turun yliopisto - University of Turku

Exciting times to look at the Global Flyway Network website, where you can join migratory birds on their epic flights like a virtual Nils Holgersson.

Following the journeys of our feathered protagonists, you'll quickly find yourself cheering them on as they go. globalflywaynetwork.org

March #wader mist-netting session in the Tagus Estuary. Low numbers but good selection of species, blackwit, barwit, grey p, redshank, dunlin, curlew sand & turnstone. Few more gps/gsm tags deployed! #biodiversity #conservation
Eco Flyway Global Flyway Network CESAM - Centre of Environmental and Marine Studies UAResearch

Sad but special day, as we gather to remember Mark Smart.
He created wonderful habitat for breeding #waders wherever he went.
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#shorebirds #ornithology

Celebrating spring with the return of 'limosa' Black-tailed Godwits.
#WaderTales blog from 3 March 2020 🎂4⃣
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#waders #shorebirds #ornithology

Relationship between wintering site and survival in a migratory waterbird using different migration routes | link.springer.com/article/10.100… | Oecologia | #ornithology

Delighted to have participated in this session: 'What happens in the poles doesn´t stay in the poles', a strong statement by United Nations sec. gen. António Guterres (referring to Antarctica). Migratory #shorebirds that breeding in the (sub)arctic are a prime example of such connectivity!