#Shorebirds

Introducing the #wader #nest #predators (and suspects) on Estonian coastal grasslands: the northern #ravenThey can be highly effective where specialised (?) on bird nests.#ornithology #fieldwork #shorebirds #waders Introducing the #wader

Graham Appleton

GrahamFAppleton

TIME is an important part of the MIGRATION story for #waders #shorebirds.A short thread 1/7 Firstly - who goes where? Summary of migration of #waders to/from/through UK/Ireland:https://wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/which-wader-when-and-why/ #or

Graham Appleton

GrahamFAppleton

#Curlew thread from the UK and #WaderTales, in preparation for World Curlew Day: 21st April (@WCDApril21) We need to learn to value and conserve the world's curlews before species disappear

Allert Bijleveld

AllertBijleveld

1 #ISTC20 #Sesh9 Millions of shorebirds fly to the Wadden Sea yearly for its resource-rich mudflats. But its heavily populated coast, fishing, and mineral reserves make it vulnerable to habitat

1 #ISTC20 #Sesh9 The Sand Plover complex has long been a source of debate among taxonomists. This group is currently considered to be two species, each with numerous subspecies, but

Global Flyway Network

1/21 #ISTC20 #Sesh9Hi shorebird folks! 1more4U2go! Migratory shorebirds connect. Movements, presence & phenotypes signal the state of habitats. Let's develop tracked individual migratory birds as sentinels (of connected parts) of

Graham Appleton

GrahamFAppleton

"Lincs to Iceland" 1/7Black-tailed Godwit thread to complement today's talk at local @_BTO @Lincsbirding @BTO_Lincs conference by @JenGill3. @WeBS_UK counters tell us that UK numbers have been going up. #waders

1 #ISTC20 #Sesh7 OK here’s a thread on #languagebarriers. Yes you are in the right conference. This is still about shorebirds. What I mean is I will explain how language

Remember The Wild

#SingFlySoar like a bird this #WorldMigratoryBirdDay!This Saturday, people across the world will celebrate the 'birds without borders' that help bind our nations together! Learn more and get involved in some

Graham Appleton

GrahamFAppleton

Five #waders on the move in October in the UK: see next 5 tweets. Greenshank Jack Snipe Bar-tailed Godwit Grey Plover & Woodcock. #GlobalBirdWeekend #MigWeek Another 40

The European GREY Deal: building an airport in the heart of Portugal’s largest wetlandhttps://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.abe4325#conservation #biodiversity #ornithology #Lisbon #airport @WaderStudy @RamsarConv @antonio

Today, April 21, is #WorldCurlewDay. Curlews are among the largest of the world’s migratory shorebirds, & among the most imperilled. 2 of the 8 curlew species are likely already extinct;

SustainableRich

A slightly belated thread about my new research project/secondment on HORSESHOE CRABS. This has been funded by the @Wellcometrust's Secondment Fellowship scheme, is part of @AnimalResNexus, & was co-developed &

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Couldn't resist going for a walk around ... Bedlam's Bottom, which sounds like a ribald euphemism. Keeping up the puerile humour, it's not far from Raspberry Hill and Ladies Hole

erin after dark

#theuntamed / #CQL characters as (North American) birds: a thread(not spoiler free!) First up: the Lan are herons:- Elegant - (...mostly)- Really good at sitting still Lan Xichen: great blue