Thai Spoon-billed Sandpiper site being developed
Birdguides 29 July 2016 A key wintering site for Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers in the Bay of Bangkok is currently being filled in to make way for a solar farm. Situated in the Samut Sakhon province to the south-west of Bangkok, the saltpans at Khok Kham [EAAF122] are world-renowned among the birding world for holding large numbers […]
Continue readingBaer’s Pochard (Aythya baeri)
Terry Townshend from Birding Beijing Latest updates: 14 April 2016: 83 counted at a lake in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province. A video of some of the birds: 9 April 2016 6 at Miyun Reservoir before the observer was ejected by police. 20 March 2016 A pair at the Summer Palace (JH) A pair at Miyun Reservoir (TT, […]
Continue readingNew migratory shorebirds plan to help protect some of Australia’s favourite overseas visitors
The Hon. Greg Hunt MP Minister for the Environment, Government of Australia Press release The Australian Government is today launching a new plan to help protect 35 species of shorebirds that regularly travel thousands of kilometres to visit our shores. Shorebirds such as the female Bar-tailed Godwit match the incredible long-haul range of an Airbus A380. We […]
Continue readingUrgent action to save shorebirds set for extinction in 30 years
Birdlife Australia Press release Today’s Shorebird Summit will agree on ambitious action to halt Australia’s looming shorebird extinction crisis. Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt will address international representatives local conservation groups and scientific experts who are meeting in Melbourne today to urgently address the massive population decline of migratory shorebirds who call Australia home. “These […]
Continue readingBaer’s Pochard Task Force organises surveys for the 2016 breeding season
Richard Hearn Baer’s Pochard Task Force Global Coordinator Our current knowledge of the summer distribution of Baer’s Pochard is extremely limited; the species is known to occur regularly at fewer than five sites. These birds account for a small proportion of the number counted in winter 2014-15, when a minimum of 238 individuals were located. […]
Continue readingScience officer attends shorebirds related meetings in Australia
EAAFP Secretariat Judit Szabo, Science Officer of the EAAFP Secretariat participated in the Migratory Shorebird Conservation Planning Summit and formal launch of the Wildlife Conservation Plan for Migratory Shorebirds organized by BirdLife Australia on 7 April 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. Besides several partners and colleagues from Yellow Sea Task Force, Monitoring Task Force, Australian and […]
Continue readingWedge-tailed shearwaters and the killer weeds of Big Island
Ann Jones Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) On a rocky island off the coast of Wollongong, grasses and weeds are strangling bird colonies to death. The wedge-tailed shearwaters of Big Island are in deep trouble, but as Ann Jones discovers, there’s hope for them yet. A fat muttonbird chick is pulled from a burrow. It looks […]
Continue readingShorebirds are still being hunted, often legally
<Introduction to this article by Spike Millington, Chief Executive of EAAFP> This article addresses the vulnerability of shorebirds to different hunting pressures across their migratory range in the Americas, both legal and illegal. Illegal hunting is the theme of the 2016 World Migratory Bird Day, but legal hunting can also have an impact of shorebird […]
Continue readingDOC and China’s conservation agency agree to protect migratory birds
Press Release Fonterra and the Department of Conservation, New Zealand The Department of Conservation (DOC) and the State Forestry Administration (SFA) of China have agreed to work together to protect wetlands visited by Red Knots and Bar-tailed Godwits during their 12,000km migratory flights. DOC Director-General Lou Sanson and Vice-Minister Chen Fengxue, the Chinese Minister responsible […]
Continue reading‘천연기념물 201호’의 수난, 다음은 인간이다
영어로 읽기 크게 위협받는 큰고니 생태, 겨울철 도래 현황 ‘반토막’ 이경호, 오마이뉴스 겨울이 시작된지도 벌써 한참이 흘렀다. 2월 중순이면 겨울철새들은 하나둘 북상을 시작한다. 올해 우리나라를 찾아오는 겨울철새들은 월동지에서 자리를 잡아 생활하고 있는 시기를 맞았다. 각자 겨울을 보내고 수천 km를 이동하는 여행을 시작하기 위해서 월동지의 생활이 매우 중요하다. 적정하게 먹고, 에너지를 비축하지 못하면 수천 km의 이동이 […]
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