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Wader Quest: Extinct species #4; Eskimo Curlew.
http://www.waderquest.org/2013/02/extinct-species-4-eskimo-curlew.html
WADER CONSERVATION WORLD WATCH. COLOUR RING SIGHTING INFORMATION. THREATS TO WADERS AND FLYWAYS. Thursday, 21 February 2013. Extinct species #4; Eskimo Curlew. Eskimo Curlew, Numenius borealis. Formerly considered conspecific with Little Curlew N. minutus. Now considered to be a montypic species forming a superspecies with Little Curlew. IUCN red list considers this species to be Critically Endangered. Specimen number 1891.10.20.1032. Collected 02/04/1889 Brownsville Texas. Vol 3 Hoatzin to Auks. Lyn...
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Wader Quest: Lars Jonsson Posters for sale to support Wader Quest.
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WADER CONSERVATION WORLD WATCH. COLOUR RING SIGHTING INFORMATION. THREATS TO WADERS AND FLYWAYS. Sunday, 14 September 2014. Lars Jonsson Posters for sale to support Wader Quest. OK everyone, remember this? We have eight of these posters left for sale, all signed by the great man (in every sense of the word) himself on the bottom right hand corner. The posters measure 70x100cm. If you would like one of these please email us on waderquest@gmail.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Nature is our hobby!
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Wader Quest: ABOUT US
http://www.waderquest.org/p/the-wader-quest-team.html
WADER CONSERVATION WORLD WATCH. COLOUR RING SIGHTING INFORMATION. THREATS TO WADERS AND FLYWAYS. Wader Quest is a charity that aims to get more people directly involved in wader conservation through. Projects, or indirectly as a Friend or Sponsor of Wader Quest. Raising funds for, and awareness about, wader conservation. Lt-Col. J. K. Stanford, O.B.E., M.C. August 30. Waders are under more global pressure. Wader Quest is seeking to become a registered charity with the Charity Commission, and will formall...
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Wader Quest: WADER CONSERVATION WORLD WATCH
http://www.waderquest.org/p/wader-quest-world-watch.html
WADER CONSERVATION WORLD WATCH. COLOUR RING SIGHTING INFORMATION. THREATS TO WADERS AND FLYWAYS. WADER CONSERVATION WORLD WATCH. Will take place on the 5th and 6th November 2016. Make a note in your diary to join in the fun. Scroll down to foot of page for details of how to do so. To take part is. As simple as A,B,C. Go out and see waders/shorebirds wherever you are in the world. Send us an email telling us what you have seen and where. C We'll create a list the species seen between us worldwide. We care...
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Wader Quest: Oystercatcher nest and eggs
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WADER CONSERVATION WORLD WATCH. COLOUR RING SIGHTING INFORMATION. THREATS TO WADERS AND FLYWAYS. Tuesday, 28 July 2015. Oystercatcher nest and eggs. I haven't seen a huge number of oystercatcher nests with eggs in them, but the three I have seen have a couple of peculiarities in common. Eurasian Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus. Take this nest which belongs to a Common Ringed Plover. Note how the eggs are neatly laid together with the point innermost? Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula. MAKE A...
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Wader Quest: MAGELLANIC PLOVER APPEAL
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WADER CONSERVATION WORLD WATCH. COLOUR RING SIGHTING INFORMATION. THREATS TO WADERS AND FLYWAYS. Initial phase target - £2,000: Raised to date - £1,850.92: Funds disbursed - £1,199.38. 26/10/2015: Geolocators sent to Ricardo in Chile via Ron Porter in USA. Geolocators bound for Patagonia. 08/10/2015: First egg reported. Egg being incubated by adult bird 186. 24/09/2015: All 8 ringed Magellanic Plovers returned to breeding grounds. 180 returning adult Magellanic Plover. To our dismay we found that few stu...
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Wader Quest: FUNDRAISING
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WADER CONSERVATION WORLD WATCH. COLOUR RING SIGHTING INFORMATION. THREATS TO WADERS AND FLYWAYS. Another successful Wader Quest fundraising project entirely raised by donations from you! 163;1,199.38. Paid out for equipment so far. December 2014: Mist nets x 25 including shipping -: £674.38. October 2015: 5 Geolocators x 5 including shipping -: £525.00. Total funds raised and donated since 12/09/2012. Includes reserve funds in hand.). 163;12,800.45. 01/10/2013 – 17/09/2014:. 163;1,128.50. 07/01/2016: ...
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Wader Quest: THREATS TO WADERS AND FLYWAYS
http://www.waderquest.org/p/threat-sto-wader.html
WADER CONSERVATION WORLD WATCH. COLOUR RING SIGHTING INFORMATION. THREATS TO WADERS AND FLYWAYS. THREATS TO WADERS AND FLYWAYS. Intertidal zones being destroyed. Grasslands being turned over to agriculture. Natural bays being turned into Marinas. Loss of food supply:. Caused by habitat loss. Over harvesting of shellfish. Collection for fishing bait. Subsistence hunting in some regions. Accidental spills of oil at sea. Accidental spillages of chemicals in rivers. Illegal ship tank flushing at sea. MAKE A ...
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Wader Quest: WADER GALLERY
http://www.waderquest.org/p/wader-quest-species-list.html
WADER CONSERVATION WORLD WATCH. COLOUR RING SIGHTING INFORMATION. THREATS TO WADERS AND FLYWAYS. What is a wader? We are based in the UK so what we refer to as waders may be more often called shorebirds where you are; to us they are one and the same thing. In order to avoid confusion however these are the birds that we are referring to; the Charadrii. This list follows IOC except where alternative species name in is brackets. 25/08/13 Chobe River near Water Lily Lodge, Kasane, Botswana. 14/11/12 Khor al-...
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Wader Quest: Far Eastern Curlew gets its own task force.
http://www.waderquest.org/2015/08/far-eastern-curlew-gets-its-own-task.html
WADER CONSERVATION WORLD WATCH. COLOUR RING SIGHTING INFORMATION. THREATS TO WADERS AND FLYWAYS. Tuesday, 4 August 2015. Far Eastern Curlew gets its own task force. At a recent meeting of partners MOP8 of the East Asian-Australasian Flyways Partnership (EAAFP) in Japan a new task force was proposed for the Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis. The world's largest migratory wader: which probably gained its scientific name due to an administrative error since it does not occur in Madagascar. Binocu...
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