Latest wader mystery playing out on a NYC beach. How did 3 chicks become 4 overnight? 🤔 Somebody call Inspector Clouseau! 🧐😅⬇️

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An interesting new paper to read 📰⬇️ "Marsh harriers unlikely to have major impact on breeding waders". Paper by Emily Upcott Lucy Mason Jen Smart (she/her) Dr Sophia Cooke et al in #BirdStudy tandfonline.com/eprint/S8CNWYI…

Little Ringed Plover are disappearing from Ibiza due to pressure from cats. Read more here 👀⬇️

Registration to watch the main talks from our next conference #IWSG2024 #IWSG_conf is now open ⬇️

Great news to see these Piping Plovers now all grown up and having young of their own 🥰

⚠️ Wader job alert 👀⬇️

Taking a different route this year is Whimbrel DRUMBA, heading from Iceland 🇮🇸 to West Africa, and currently stopped off in Ireland 🇮🇪

Great news for this internationally important site for waders 🥳⬇️

Safe stop-over points on migration are important for waders to refuel as they move between breeding and wintering areas 🪱🐚🦀💙

Wow 😯 What a bird! Has anyone else come across leucistic waders? 👀⬇️

Hopefully this leads to action for conserving meadow birds and waders, in The Netherlands including Black-tailed Godwit, the country's national bird 🇳🇱👀⬇️

Interesting stuff on Black-winged Stilts. Look forward to the next update! 👀⬇️

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High tide wader roosts are hugely important and need protection. They're impressive sights today, but as Wim notes, with populations in decline just imagine what they used to look like! We hope they can again 😯🥰⬇️

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Our next conference #IWSG_conf is fast approaching! In just over 2 weeks' time delegates will be gathering like waders at a high-tide roost in Montpelier 🇫🇷 for #IWSG2024. Don't forget you can register to watch the main talks online ➡️ waderstudygroup.org/conferences/20…

Need a small grant to help a wader-related research project? Why not apply for up to €1500 from our Small Project Grant scheme? ⏰ Deadline for applications is 1st December 2024 ➡️ waderstudygroup.org/projects/small…

Efforts to increase conservation opportunities for breeding Northern Lapwings in the Kızılırmak Delta, Türkiye by Bal & Erciyas-Yavuz waderstudygroup.org/article/18416/ #waders #shorebirds #ornithology Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi

Return rates of GPS-tagged Pacific Golden-Plovers: a controlled study in Hawaii by Johnson et al. waderstudygroup.org/article/18412/ #waders #shorebirds #ornithology