Big jump in Woodcock observations on @BirdTrack this week. New arrivals will melt into the British & Irish landscape, feeding at night in fields and woodland. Lots more birds still to come, I reckon. More here: wadertales.wordpress.com/201… #ornithology

Four more WaderTales blogs are on the way: 1️⃣ Knot at night 2️⃣ When to mow (or graze) a meadow 3️⃣ Right vegetation for Curlew chicks 4️⃣ The eggs that don't hatch There are already 160 wader/shorebird blogs in the catalogue: wadertales.wordpress.com/abo… #ornithology 📷 Hatching Curlew

Moulting is a long and energetic-process. Golden Plovers get started early. Blog from 23 Oct 2018 🎂 wadertales.wordpress.com/201… #ornithology

Cute and critically endangered! Spoon-billed Sandpiper blog published OTD in 2020, with four updates added since 🎂 wadertales.wordpress.com/202… #ornithology #waders #shorebirds

Oystercatchers are more interesting than you might think! Two examples of Icelandic 'chick and dad' movements 🔽 Please help to find more parents with colour-rings, to match up with tagged juveniles. Thanks! Background: wadertales.wordpress.com/202… #ornithology

BirdTrack graph for Woodcock shows that few continental birds have arrived in Britain & Ireland. To conserve UK breeding population, most people think shooting season should not open on 1 October* More here: wadertales.wordpress.com/cat… #ornithology * 1 September in Scotland

Another Bar-tailed Godwit anniversary. Five years ago, Roeland Bom and colleagues introduced a new subspecies. wadertales.wordpress.com/202… #ornithology

Rethinking Bar-tailed Godwits in Europe/Africa. Genetics study rewrites a migration story and sets new conservation priorities. 🎂1️⃣ wadertales.wordpress.com/202… #ornithology

New paper on diet of nesting Black-tailed Godwits will be of interest to people working on conservation of waders nesting in grassland: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… Lots more info on Black-tailed Godwits here: wadertales.wordpress.com/abo… #ornithology

"Where are my parents?" Several juvenile Oystercatchers have been tracked from Iceland to Ireland/Britain but where are their colour-ringed parents? More about project: wadertales.wordpress.com/202… Two examples - dads found in Heysham and at Dawlish Warren! (amended map)

If you're interested in wader migration ... Four tales added to compendium of blogs about shorebird migration - Oystercatcher, Dotterel, Whimbrel and multispecies. wadertales.wordpress.com/201… 🎂7⃣ #birds #shorebirds #waders #ornithology