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  It is amazing how fast the three days at Bird Fair whizz by. One minute you are tacking posters up and arranging the goods the next you are packing up the boxes again and on the way home. Months … Continued

We have posted a new Featured Wader page, this time it is the Hooded Plover. All the details of the previous Featured Wader – Ruddy Turnstone are still on the website under the Ruddy Turnstone entry on the What are … Continued

After a great deal of hard graft, late nights and head scratching (mostly on the part of Trustee Andrew Whitelee), we have satisfied the Charities Commission (England and Wales) that Wader Quest is indeed a charity and they have bestowed … Continued

We have a new section on the website for reporting monitoring projects. These can be found under Monitoring in the Conservation drop down menu. The first such project we are presenting is the Bohai Bay Global Flyway Network Update #1 … Continued

The April Wader Quest The Newsletter (Vol 6: Issue 1) is also now out and can be found on the website under Our Newsletters in the News section In this issue Charity news and updates New subscription rates reminder Sands … Continued

Update #6 sees the Oriental Pratincoles reaching Cambodia, the Little Curlews setting off from Australia and the Eurasian Whimbrels counting down to their departure date.

We have added a new page to the website under the conservation banner entitled Threatened Wader Species.   It is a comprehensive list of the species in the IUCN categories; Extinct; Critically Endangered; Endangered; Vulnerable; and Near Threatened. Each name … Continued

It was a good job we didn’t commit ourselves to the time span between posting the ‘Featured Wader’ pages, as the second such page, based on our pin badges to date, is the Ruddy Turnstone which is a species with … Continued