We're recruiting 2 PhD students in ATU Galway City to work on breeding wader conservation in Ireland as part of the Breeding Waders EIP Project EIP (PhD with a focus on genetic monitoring with our team). Deadline is 20/06 and further details can be found here: gmit.ie/research/postg… Ian O’Connor

Walking on a beach this weekend?
1. Careful not to tread on a Ringed Plover's nest or chick:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/on-…
2. Look out for summer plumage Sanderling - some have flown from South Africa and are heading for Greenland:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/tra…
Ringed Plover📷Phil Gwilliam

As the season progresses, the risk of accidentally trampling on eggs or seriously disturbing freshly hatched chicks increases. We'd like to urge everyone to be extremely cautious&stick to the tide line. Keeping dogs on leads/very close, will increase the birds' chance of survival

Walking on a beach this weekend?
1. Careful not to tread on a Ringed Plover's nest or chick:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/on-…
2. Look out for summer plumage Sanderling - some have flown from South Africa and are heading for Greenland:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/tra…
Ringed Plover📷Phil Gwilliam

#Oystercatcher flying from Norway to find:
Truss = 8th (autumn 2022)
Sunak = 9th (autumn 2023)
Starmer = 10th? (autumn 2024)

Although UK #Sanderling passage peaks in May, there will still be birds passing through in June.
Some of the latest Sanderling will be birds from Mauritania - migrating a couple of weeks late.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/tra…
Research by Jeroen Reneerkens
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology

📢 ICYMI...

...BOU is Natural History Museum in 2025

#BOUasm25 | A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world | 18 Nov 2025

Ken Norris Dr Alex Bond Shane Dubay Catriona Morrison (she/her) Gavin Thomas, Andreanna Welch

bou.org.uk/event/a-day-at…

#ornithology

Although UK #Sanderling passage peaks in May, there will still be birds passing through in June.
Some of the latest Sanderling will be birds from Mauritania - migrating a couple of weeks late.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/tra…
Research by Jeroen Reneerkens
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology

Honoured to represent BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 at funeral of Dr Peter Jones today.
Editor of IBIS (1988-93) and BOU Vice President (1993 -97).
Union Medal citation from 2011:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
Photo from IBIS/Oskar Brattström

#Oystercatcher flying from Norway to find:
Truss = 8th (autumn 2022)
Sunak = 9th (autumn 2023)
Starmer = 10th? (autumn 2024)

Our team at Michael-Otto-Institut im NABU, along with several partners, is organising a workshop on plover conservation in Montpellier. Registration deadline is June 16th! #IWSG2024

Every Redshank matters!
Blog about the problems faced by saltmarsh-breeding #waders :
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/red…

Wonderful salt-marshes!
With the right management, they can store carbon, feed cattle and provide homes for breeding #Redshank .
Blog based on paper by Lucy Mason of RSPB Science from 28 May 2019 🎂5⃣
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/red…

Lovely pics of summer plumage Sanderling on Twitter/X this week!
This #Icelandic bird is full of fat that will fuel the last leg of a journey that might have started as far south as South Africa and will end in Greenland.
Blog about Sanderling migration:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/tra…

If you are going to 'ask' #waders #shorebirds or other birds to carry data collection devices then it's good to be aware of possible negative consequences.
Blog from 27 May 2016 🎂 8⃣
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/are…
#ornithology

I wish it was that simple, no Redshank or Lapwing and a lot fewer Oystercatchers on most of the extensive salt marshes on the south Solway. Increasing number of high, covering tides partly the cause. Lots of nests get washed out.

Wonderful salt-marshes!
With the right management, they can store carbon, feed cattle and provide homes for breeding #Redshank .
Blog based on paper by Lucy Mason of RSPB Science from 28 May 2019 🎂5⃣
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/red…

NEW PAPER in Journal of #Ornithology
Does frequent handling influence #whimbrel chicks’ body condition?

Short answer: No*
*but please see the details: rdcu.be/dJbfP

If you do not have access, I'll happily send you a copy.
#waders #shorebirds

Conserving species, subspecies or populations of #shorebirds , with a focus on Red Knot.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/05/27/sub…
Blog from 27 May 2021 🎂3⃣
Paper by Camila Gherardi in Bird Conservation International journal
#waders #ornithology

Loving the #Seaforth wader action currently. After a good breeding season for #Knot last year and seeing lots of juvs, we expected good numbers of non-breeding first summers this year. And so it be. Nice views on the causeway & lots of leg flags read. #waders #shorebirds