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Volume 10; Issue 4 newsletter published
3 Jan 2024

Volume 10; Issue 4 newsletter published

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In this issue – 2: Wader Quest information. 3: Wader Quest news. 4: 2024 Species Focus 5-6: When is a wader not a wader? (Taxonomic updates) 7-8: List of Charadrii (waders / shorebirds) 9-10: List of Charadrii… there’s more! 11:  … Continued

2022/3 Wader Quest Grants Summary
30 Mar 2023

2022/3 Wader Quest Grants Summary

by | posted in: arquata, Charadrii, Charadrius, Citizen Science, Collared, collaris, Curlews, Eurasian Curlew, falklandicus, Fundraising, lobatus, Migration, nivosus, Numenius, Our Blogs, Phalaropes, Phalaropus, Plovers, Red-necked Phalarope, Science and Research, Snowy Plover, tricolor, Two-banded, Wader Conservation, Wader News, Wilson's, Wilson's, wilsonia | 0

As the financial years draws to a close, it is worth looking back to see what species Wader Quest helped to conserve by making grants or donations during that time. As always a number of projects are overseas and there, … Continued

World Curlew Day
21 Apr 2021

World Curlew Day

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It is world Curlew Day, when we concentrate our thoughts towards the different species of Curlew and Whimbrel around the world and the trouble they are in. N. borealis   Eskimo Curlew  Critically Endangered (EXTINCT) – Top left © BNHM N. tenuirostris … Continued

Captive breeding and headstarting
31 May 2020

Captive breeding and headstarting

by | posted in: Curlews, Eggs, Godwits, Our Blogs, Plovers, Sandpipers, Wader Conservation | 0

When a species is in trouble and on the brink of extinction drastic measures may have to be taken. Captive breeding and headstarting are last-resort weapons available in the conservationists armoury. Here we explain captive breeding and headstarting. These tools … Continued

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