Hardship for Natural Monument 201, human’s next
Read in Korean The survival of Whooper Swans is under threat, as wintering number have halved. By Kyeongho Lee of ohmynews It’s been a while since winter started. In mid-February, migratory birds that spend the winter in Korea start to return to the north. The conditions at the wintering site are very important for the birds […]
Continue readingEAAFP welcomes new Focal Point of Wildlife Conservation Society
The EAAFP Secretariat welcomes new Focal Point of Wildlife Conservation Society, Martin Robards. Below is the short biography of him. Dr. Martin Robards is the Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Arctic Beringia Program – a transboundary effort working across Chukotka (Russian Federation), Alaska (United States), and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (Canada). He is an […]
Continue readingSand mining threat to Siberian Cranes at Poyang Lake, China
By Jim Harris Senior Vice President International Crane Foundation Growing evidence points to intensive sand dredging as having a significant impact on water levels and flows for Poyang Lake [EAAF025], the most important wintering area for waterbirds in East Asia. On average 400,000 waterbirds spend the winter at Poyang, including 98% of the world’s critically […]
Continue readingThe 1st Asian Argos birds tracking workshop was held in Tokyo, Japan
Yann Bernard Head, Environmental Monitoring Collecte Localisation Satellites(CLS) With 60 attendees, the 1st Asian Argos birds tracking workshop hosted by Keio University and organized by CLS Argos in Japan was a great success! Held in Tokyo on the last March 9, 2016 this workshop was aimed to make information exchange between biological and technical scientists […]
Continue reading2,700 Hooded Cranes arrived in Republic of Korea
Kisup Lee, Waterbirds Network Korea Hooded Cranes are on the move! About 2,700 Hooded Cranes arrived in Republic of Korea from Japan on 20 – 21 March. We are expecting more Hooded Cranes coming from Izumi, Japan. According to monitoring results on 20 March, Cheonsu Bay [EAAF046] in Seosan currently supports around 2,900 Hooded Cranes […]
Continue readingMigration routes of Tundra Swans satellite-tracked from northern Japan
Wenbo CHEN, Tomoko DOKO, Go FUJITA, Kan KONISHI, and Hiroyoshi HIGUCHI Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus) breed in tundra regions near the North Pole, wintering in temperate regions of the coastal areas of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The Eastern Palearctic (EP) flyway goes between southwest coast of Japan and the Arctic Ocean at the northeast […]
Continue readingThe odyssey of the Bewick Swan – another route to Greece – Belgian Ringing Scheme
Back to the north! Didier Vangeluwe Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences The first two Bewick’s Swans equipped with a GPS tag during past summer in the tundra of Yamal but at the same site a few days apart, have very recently left their wintering site separated one of the other by … 8000 km! […]
Continue readingMeeting on conservation of waterbirds and their mudflat in Incheon and Gyeonggi
Eunjin Yu, EAAFP Intern Incheon-Gyeonggi Ecoregion Task Force held a meeting at the EAAFP office in Incheon, Republic of Korea on 8 March 2016, to talk about what they have done so far and discuss their work plan for year 2016. Incheon and Gyeonggi region in the Republic of Korea is adjacent to Yellow Sea […]
Continue readingBuilding capacity for waterbird ringing in Bangladesh
Richard Hearn Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust We have just returned from working with IUCN Bangladesh and the Bangladesh bird club (Bbc) to develop a programme of duck capture and ringing, and wild bird surveillance for avian influenza, at Tanguar Haor [EAAF105], a vast Ramsar site in northern Bangladesh. The site is of huge global importance […]
Continue readingResult of the International Black-faced Spoonbill Census 2016
Read in other languages: Yat-tung Yu, Coordinator, EAAFP Black-faced Spoonbill Working Group This year’s census was held on 15-17 January 2016. A total of 3,356 birds were recorded in 2016 census, having 84 birds more than the 3,272 birds recorded in 2015, which is an increase of 2.6%. The largest wintering population was found in Taiwan with […]
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