News from the field: Final update from Roland
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on August 7, 20174 August 2017 Roland Digby, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper This will be my last update because, as I type, I’m finally waiting for…
Continue readingAll hands on deck: the 2017 breeding season is imminent
Posted by EAAFP communications on May 29, 201726 May 2017 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper It’s that time of year again! The monitoring and headstarting team have…
Continue readingWhy ET, HU or CT might lead us to missing spoonie sites
Posted by EAAFP communications on November 28, 201615 November 2016 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper With the third Spoon-billed Sandpiper…
Continue readingNews from the field: And they’re off!
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on July 28, 201627 July 2016 By Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Yesterday, the Spoon-billed Sandpiper headstarting programme successfully released 30 fledglings. That’s the most in a single year…
Continue readingNews from the field: One more week until release
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on July 25, 201621 July 2016 By Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper There are now 30 chicks thriving under the team’s care and living in the release aviary. The chicks have one…
Continue readingNews from the field: Chicks, chicks and more chicks
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on July 11, 20168 July 2016 By Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper The team reached their target of collecting 36 eggs and within days, 22 of those eggs hatched!…
Continue readingNews from the field: An almost full incubator, a breakdown and T8!
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on June 27, 201625 June 2016 by Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper A quick update to let you know that the team in Russia now has 32 eggs, not all the collection…
Continue readingNews from the field: More eggs and some good and bad news from the western oil drills
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on June 20, 201618 June 2016 Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Pink left, a headstarted bird from the 2014 breeding season, spotted at…
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News from the field: First eggs collected in Russia
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on June 16, 201615 June 2016 Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Egg collection at Meinypil’gyno is underway and another headstarted bird has been spotted – White E7, headstarted just last year. The first…
Continue readingNews from the field: Dry conditions, a bear and the first photos
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on June 14, 2016Posted on: 11 June 2016 Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper As reported in the last blog, conditions this year are unusually warm and dry. While these conditions have…
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