Tracking waders: important scientific and conservation stories. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/m... Most popular WaderTales blog in 2025, with over 1500 reads. #ornithology

Thanks to everyone who helps to promote WaderTales blogs about waders/shorebirds. During 2025, site was visited by over 20,000 people from 141 countries. Catalogue: wadertales.wordpress.com/about/ Image: Whimbrels under threat in Iceland wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/i... #ornithology

1/10 The first WaderTales blog of 2025 summarised a paper by @amigodeaves.bsky.social et al: How are migration sites connected? Study combines ringing, colour-ringing and tracking data, to identify key sites on East Atlantic Flyway. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h... #ornithology

3/10 WaderTales was set up to publicise research on Icelandic waders. There were 4 blogs from Iceland in 2025. The first was about deploying listening devices, to learn more about breeding Whimbrel: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/t... Paper by Maite Cerezo Araujo et al #ornithology

1/10 The first WaderTales blog of 2025 summarised a paper by @amigodeaves.bsky.social et al: How are migration sites connected? Study combines ringing, colour-ringing and tracking data, to identify key sites on East Atlantic Flyway. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h... #ornithology

Birdwatching with a camera in St Andrews? A colour-ringed Oystercatcher on West Sands WW-W(KC) breeds on the ninth green of an Iceland #Golf Course. Members of club would love a photo of her - especially on the Old Course. More about project: wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/o... #BirdingScotland

Birdwatching with a camera in St Andrews? A colour-ringed Oystercatcher on West Sands WW-W(KC) breeds on the ninth green of an Iceland #Golf Course. Members of club would love a photo of her - especially on the Old Course. More about project: wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/o... #BirdingScotland

Volcanoes? Good news for breeding Black-tailed Godwits? Or bad news? wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/b... 🎂9️⃣ #ornithology

Shortest day. For an Oystercatcher that winters in Iceland it was only 4 hours between sunrise and sunset today. A bird that migrates to Dublin will have experienced 7.5 hours. Thoughts about the two strategies: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/m... #ornithology

This may worth a read: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Shortest day. For an Oystercatcher that winters in Iceland it was only 4 hours between sunrise and sunset today. A bird that migrates to Dublin will have experienced 7.5 hours. Thoughts about the two strategies: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/m... #ornithology

INTERNATIONAL SHIOREBIRD RESCUE How do birdwatchers, ringers/banders and scientists collaborate to conserve waders/shorebirds? Blog from 20 Dec 2017 🎂8️⃣ wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/12/20/i... #ornithology Graphic @stevedudley.bsky.social @bou.org.uk

Volcanoes? Good news for breeding Black-tailed Godwits? Or bad news? wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/12/20/b... 🎂9️⃣ #ornithology

Researchers share their findings about the effects of tracking devices on survival etc., so that others can learn how to study waders as safely as possible. 1/4 New paper suggests that Kentish Plovers are not affected by tracking devices. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... BUT ...

Wonderful pics of purps! About 10,000 winter around UK's open coast, along with over 200,000 waders: wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/03/23/w... Purps were added to UK RED list in 2022: wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/u... #ornithology

Purple Sandpiper joined the UK Red List at the last review. wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/u... #ornithology

Blog about * Broad-billed Sandpipers * The latest Red List for waders/shorebirds and * Aapa Mires wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/b... 🎂 #ornithology

Researchers share their findings about the effects of tracking devices on survival etc., so that others can learn how to study waders as safely as possible. 1/4 New paper suggests that Kentish Plovers are not affected by tracking devices. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... BUT ...

Not everyone relies on AI ... So far this year, over 19,000 people in 139 countries have read at least one WaderTales blog. wadertales.wordpress.com/about/ The most popular of this year's blogs is "Making full use of tracking data". wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/m... #ornithology

What lessons can we learn from the demise of the Slender-billed Curlew? Blog published on 12 Dec 2024, based on paper by Graeme Buchanan et al in @bou.org.uk journal IBIS. wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/l... #ornithology

Waders/shorebirds don't necessarily breed every year. Taking a 'gap year' may be a sensible option: wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/12/09/g... 🎂5️⃣ Paper by Eveling Tavera et al. #ornithology

What lessons can we learn from the demise of the Slender-billed Curlew? Blog published on 12 Dec 2024, based on paper by Graeme Buchanan et al in @bou.org.uk journal IBIS. wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/l... #ornithology

Seasonal field staff needed for @rspbscience.bsky.social projects in 2026 - advert live, closing date 11 Jan. Lots of #seabird (& non-seabird) opportunities! Get in touch if you’d like to know more about any of the #seabird roles 🌊🐦 app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... #seabirds #ornithology

The annual post-breeding moult of a shorebird lasts about three months - that's as long as a successful breeding season. Monitoring moult using digital cameras: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m... #ornithology

Farming can be good for breeding waders. Blog based on research by Lilja Jóhannesdóttir: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/d... 🎂7️⃣ #ornithology

The annual post-breeding moult of a shorebird lasts about three months - that's as long as a successful breeding season. Monitoring moult using digital #photography: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...

Farming can be good for breeding waders. Blog based on research by Lilja Jóhannesdóttir: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/d... 🎂7️⃣ #ornithology

Waders/shorebirds don't necessarily breed every year. Taking a 'gap year' may be a sensible option: wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/12/09/g... 🎂5️⃣ Paper by Eveling Tavera et al. #ornithology

At the end of every new road/track in Iceland is a new summer cottage, a tourist development, a newly planted forest or energy infrastructure. All these developments impact breeding waders but the birds' problems start with the road. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/r... #ConservationScience🌍

Blog about * Broad-billed Sandpipers * The latest Red List for waders/shorebirds and * Aapa Mires wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/b... 🎂 #ornithology

4/4 Head-starting Curlew wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/08/31/w...

1/4 Thread about head-starting (hatching eggs and raising chicks in captivity) starts with link to new paper from WWT & RSPB: "When and why to give shorebirds a head start" Then return rates, inbreeding issues and Curlew 👇 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ornithology

At the end of every new road/track in Iceland is a new summer cottage, a tourist development, a newly planted forest or energy infrastructure. All these developments impact breeding waders but the birds' problems start with the road. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/r... #ConservationScience🌍

Not everyone relies on AI ... So far this year, over 19,000 people in 139 countries have read at least one WaderTales blog. wadertales.wordpress.com/about/ The most popular of this year's blogs is "Making full use of tracking data". wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/m... #ornithology

New WaderTales blog. How do roads impact breeding waders? wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/r... Based on new paper by Aldís Erna Pálsdóttir et al nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

Roosting. Energy conservation - not laziness. See 'A place to roost' wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/a... #ornithology

How effectively can listening devices 'count' breeding waders? wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/c... Blog from 4 Dec 2024 based on paper by Jarrett & Willis #ornithology

What impacts do roads have on Iceland's breeding waders? wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/r... Latest paper from Aldís Erna Pálsdóttir has become WaderTales blog #153. #ConservationEcology🌍

Latest wadertales blog on the very low numbers of breeding whimbrel, and other waders, around roads throughout lowland Iceland: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/r... From our new @avianbiology.bsky.social paper nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

Trees or breeding waders? THREAD 1/4 There's little point paying farmers to leave space for breeding waders if their neighbours are going to plant trees. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... New review paper by Emma Sheard et al suggests that forests create ... #ornithology

What impacts do roads have on Iceland's breeding waders? wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/r... Latest paper from Aldís Erna Pálsdóttir has become WaderTales blog #153. #ConservationEcology🌍

New WaderTales blog. How do roads impact breeding waders? wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/r... Based on new paper by Aldís Erna Pálsdóttir et al nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

Birdwatchers who are under 40 will not appreciate just how many breeding waders there were in Scottish farmland back in 1990. If your benchmark is 2015, look at what happened in the previous 25 years: wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/2... 🎂8️⃣ And things have not improved since: #ornithology

Birdwatchers who are under 40 will not appreciate just how many breeding waders there were in Scottish farmland back in 1990. If your benchmark is 2015, look at what happened in the previous 25 years: wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/2... 🎂8️⃣ And things have not improved since: #BirdingScotland

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1.5 million pairs of wader return to #Iceland each spring. Where do they nest and how vulnerable are they to habitat changes, many of which are linked to 'development' proposals? wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/i... #ConservationScience🌍

1.5 million pairs of wader return to #Iceland each spring. Where do they nest and how vulnerable are they to habitat changes, many of which are linked to 'development' proposals? wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/i... #ConservationScience🌍

Love Tom's Purple Sandpipers! 👇 Species was 'red-listed' in 2022 - one of 13 waders on the UK Red List. Blog "Into the red" wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/04/u... #ornithology

Tagging of Icelandic Whimbrel led to a rethink of the migration map in 'Time to Fly' Virtually all Icelandic Whimbrel fly directly from Iceland to Africa. Blog from 21 Nov 2018 🎂 wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/i... #ornithology

Restoring peatland. Capturing carbon and providing breeding habitat for waders. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/p... Paper by Rob Hughes & Chris Bingham #ConservationScience🌍