Prof Rich Fuller shares some good news about #easterncurlew with delegates at the EAAFP Secretariat #mop11 Victorian Wader Study Group BirdLife Australia

👇'a million or more Oriental Pratincoles' 👇
Wow! Amazing!
Whole flyway population estimated at 2.88 million by Birgita Hansen. See BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib…
Summary of paper:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/02/10/how…
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology

As 2022 draws to a close on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, it's good to see that #WaderTales blogs have been read over 2000 times in the region this year.
Highlights:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/12/22/wad…
Population estimates is the most read blog👇
#shorebirds #waders #ornithology

I’m not totally convinced about the comparison but here’s some footage of an airborne Latham’s snipe (op cit)… youtu.be/a78i39l4uQw HT Birgita Hansen

Time to do something then I think. I fear another tussle with another council 😒

Looks like a beautiful #lathamssnipe count day in Queensland. Peterborough took the record again down south with 120 snipe. And a scabby abandoned industrial site on Norman Street in Ballarat took second prize with 97!

Great blog addressing some of the findings in VWSG member Birgita Hansen's paper in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 a few months ago.

What's been happening to numbers of #waders #shorebirds that fly from Russia & Alaska to Australia and New Zealand, via the Yellow Sea?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/02/10/how…
2022 paper by Birgita Hansen et al in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈
#ornithology

Want to know more about successful citizen science programs, including the Australian Shorebird Monitoring program?
Check out this article by Birgita Hansen
'Learning from successful long-term citizen science programs'
doi.org/10.1071/PC21065

We're accepting abstracts for The Australasian Shorebird Conference online in 2022. Please visit the site to submit. Look forward to seeing all you wader people online in October!

Exciting News for all those with a love for Shorebirds! The 12th Australasian Shorebird Conference is an upcoming online event being held from 29-30 Oct. The conference will delve into the theme “Global Strategies Local Actions” and explore findings which have emerged since 2018.

Quick summary of first nine #WaderTales blogs of 2022:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/25/jan…
Thanks to: Katharine Bowgen Dr Kristal Kostoglou Birgita Hansen Ian Woodward Triin Kaasiku Eldís Arna Jenny Linscott
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology

Millions of #shorebirds have left Australia, heading for China, Russia, Alaska etc.
Recent stocktake by Birgita Hansen and colleagues suggests that several species are in serious decline:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/02/10/how… #waders #ornithology

#lathamssnipe are well on northward migration with one Aussie-tagged bird on Cape York and two Japanese-tagged birds back in Japan! lathamssnipeproject.wordpress.com/news/ for latest update 公益財団法人 日本野鳥の会 Jerra Wetlands

Great blog article highlighting the amazing study undertaken by Birgita Hansen and colleagues to elucidate population estimates for waders using the EAAF.

Not only does Birgita do important wader science, she deserves credit for the development and updating of our website!

Just noticed that this is the 6th #WaderTales blog in a row to be based on a paper with a female lead author.
Triin Kaasiku Jenny Linscott Dr Kristal Kostoglou Birgita Hansen Katharine Bowgen Itxaso Quintana
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology
Full list is 50/50:
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Still in the top 5, Birgita Hansen et al's Generating population estimates for migratory shorebird species in the world’s largest flyway onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib…
is our second most-discussed #ornithology article of the last week | #shorebirds #altmetrics
twitter.com/IBIS_journal/s…

3⃣ #WaderTales blogs in 2022
HUNGRY OYSTERCATCHERS
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/01/13/whe…
DISAPPEARING CURLEW SANDPIPERS
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/02/10/how…
ALARM CALLS OF CHICKS
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/03/01/chi…
Summary of blogs from 2021:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/12/23/wad…
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology #scicomm

To understand the magnitude of the crisis for #shorebirds on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, we need to know how many #waders there are.
Stocktake blog from 10 Feb. wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/02/10/how…
Paper in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib…
#ornithology

Birgita Hansen et al's Generating population estimates for migratory shorebird species in the world’s largest flyway onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib…
is our second most-discussed #ornithology article of the last week | #shorebirds #altmetrics
twitter.com/IBIS_journal/s…