On China’s Coast, Rare Bird Finds Little Room to Rest
Shi Yi, Sixth Tone It was the kind of news experts only believe if they see it with their own eyes: A man in China claimed he had spotted 100 Spoon-billed Sandpipers foraging on the muddy coast of the Yellow Sea. The bird is so small that it would barely cover the hand of a grown […]
Continue readingMark Barter Travel Award for Australasian Shorebird Conference, Auckland, NZ, October 2016.
Ken Gosbell, Australasian Wader Studies Group (AWSG) The Australasian Wader Studies Group (AWSG) Committee has sponsored an Award to honour the late Mark Barter. Shorebird workers and others will be aware of the tremendous contribution that Mark made to the understanding and conservation of shorebirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway over many years. In view of […]
Continue readingQueensland Ornithological Conference in Brisbane, Australia on Sunday, 9 July 2016
Media Release Once common shorebirds that migrate from Siberia and Alaska are declining rapidly Dr Richard Fuller and Dr Judit Szabo to speak at Brisbane bird conference on why and what we can do about it Brisbane 23 May 2016 – Migratory shorebird populations have decreased drastically in recent years. Dr Richard Fuller has […]
Continue readingStop! Don’t Shoot Like that — A Guide to Ethical Wildlife Photography
Shekar Dattatri and Ramki Sreenivasan Conservation India “I will not harm my subject!” Every nature photographer should willingly and happily follow this simple credo – even when no one else is watching. This is not hard to do, and for those with a genuine love for nature, or even just a conscience, it should be second […]
Continue readingWorld Migratory Bird Day
Spike Millington EAAFP Chief Executive EAAFP e-Newsletter April 2016 Introduction To our Partners and Supporters, May 10th marks World Migratory Bird Day, an annual event to raise awareness of the wonders of bird migration across the globe and join together to celebrate the annual journeys, often challenging and sometimes perilous, that millions of birds undertake each […]
Continue readingIUCN WCC 2016 Side Event for conservation in EAAF
IUCN WCC 2016, A workshop on conservation of intertidal habitats and migratory waterbirds of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, especially the Yellow Sea (4 September) Minseon Kim, Programme Officer, EAAFP Secretariat The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is one of EAAFP Partners and the IUCN World Conservation Congress (WCC) is the world’s largest and […]
Continue reading2016 Seabird Survey in Tubbataha [EAAF123]
By Tubbataha Management Office Seabirds spend their entire life in the open ocean, using pelagic islands and islets as breeding sites and for raising their young. Although they have longer life spans, seabirds breed much slower and have fewer chicks than other birds. They are biological indicators of the health of the ocean. The Tubbataha […]
Continue readingAustralia lists Bar-tailed Godwit and Great Knot as critically endangered
Dr Mark Carey Department of the Environment, Australian Government The Australian Government’s Minister for the Environment has agreed to list the following migratory shorebirds under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) as: Critically endangered Limosa lapponica menzbieri (Bar-tailed Godwit (spp menzbieri)) Calidris tenuirostris (Great Knot) Endangered Calidris canutus (Red Knot) […]
Continue reading2016 동아시아 저어새 동시센서스 결과
다른 언어로 읽기: Yat-tung Yu, 동아시아-대양주 철새 이동경로 파트너십(이하 EAAFP) 저어새 워킹그룹 관리자 올해의 동아시아 저어새 동시센서스는 2016년 1월 15일에서 17일까지 진행되었습니다. 2015년 작년보다(3,272) 84마리가 늘어 올해 2016년 저어새 개체수는 총 3,356마리 조사되었습니다. 전년대비 2.6% 상승했습니다. 저어새 월동 개체군이 가장 많은 지역은 대만입니다. 올해 총 2,060마리가 관찰되었으며, 이는 전체 저어새 수의 61%를 차지합니다. 이는 2015년의 2,034 […]
Continue readingSpike Millington attends the Implementation Meeting of the Arctic Migratory Bird Initiative (AMBI) at Texel, Netherlands
Spike Millington attended the Implementation Meeting of the Arctic Migratory Bird Initiative (AMBI) at Texel, Netherlands on April 4-7th, organized by East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP) Partners Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF). Evgeny Syroechkovskiy, EAAFP Focal Point for Russia and Rick Lanctot, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) represented Arctic countries in our Flyway […]
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