Writer & life-long birdwatcher. Formerly Director of Communications for BTO. #WaderTales blogs about #waders #shorebirds #ornithology
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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.
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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
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📷 Hatching Curlew
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Cute and critically endangered!
Spoon-billed Sandpiper blog published OTD in 2020, with four updates added since 🎂
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#ornithology #waders #shorebirds
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Moulting is a long and energetic-process.
Golden Plovers get started early.
Blog from 23 Oct 2018 🎂
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
Graham Appleton retweeted
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*
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* 1 September in Scotland
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:
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#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
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Another Bar-tailed Godwit anniversary.
Five years ago, Roeland Bom and colleagues introduced a new subspecies.
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Rethinking Bar-tailed Godwits in Europe/Africa.
Genetics study rewrites a migration story and sets new conservation priorities. 🎂1️⃣
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#ornithology
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:
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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
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"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:
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Two examples - dads found in Heysham and at Dawlish Warren!
(amended map)
"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)
Thank you for your lovely comments.
The expectation was that parents and kids would be found in different wintering sites but you don't know until you know!
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