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The Rising Tide: How Sea Level Rise is Reshaping Wader Habitats

Wading birds, with their delicate balance of long migrations and specialised habitats, are uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Chief among these is sea level rise, a growing global issue that is reshaping coastlines and threatening the critical … Continued

Taxonomic Tidy Up – as it affects waders.

Recently, most of the influential list-keepers of the world’s birds, got together and, between them, created a definitive, universal, taxonomic list of the birds of the world and they called it Avilist – The Global Avian Checklist. This may come as … Continued

Global Big Day Wader Quest team on top of the (birding) world.

What a magnificent display of global unity in support of birds the Global Big Day is. Each year, Global Birding  takes part by encouraging teams and individuals to participate under their banner. Wader Quest enters an international team called, imaginatively, … Continued

More ammunition for Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservationists to fight off extinction.

The Spoon-billed Sandpiper holds a special place in our hearts at Wader Quest. This is because it was the species that kickstarted our wader conservation journey. When we realised just how close to extinction this species was, we felt compelled … Continued

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