October 2016 - Eaaflyway

Indonesian wetland managers gather to share best practices and build a national partnership

Posted by EAAFP communications on October 28, 2016

Minseon Kim, EAAFP Programme Officer An Indonesian National Training Workshop for Flyway and Ramsar site managers was held in Jakarta on 19-23 September 2016, kindly organised by the…

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Latest Yellow Sea-Bohai Sea region survey of waterbirds highlights continued importance of this global bottle neck area

Posted by EAAFP communications on October 28, 2016

Taej Mundkur, Wetlands International The Yellow Sea-Bohai wetlands is well known…

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Baer’s Pochard in inland lakes of central Myanmar

Posted by EAAFP communications on October 27, 2016

Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association (BANCA) Baer’s Pochard, Athya baeri is globally threatened species listed as Critically Endangered by IUCN Red List 2015. It was last…

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Swinhoe’s Rail in Beijing

Posted by EAAFP communications on October 26, 2016

Birding Beijing Whilst…

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Spoon-billed Sandpiper population revealed

Posted by EAAFP communications on October 26, 2016

19 October 2016 Olivia Bailey, Fauna & Flora International Scientists have estimated the world population of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper – a Critically Endangered shorebird – for the…

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Satellite tags to track critically-endangered Sandpipers

Posted by EAAFP communications on October 21, 2016

3 October 2016 Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper The smallest satellite tag ever made is set to play a vital role in the battle to conserve the Spoon-billed…

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First Latham’s Snipe T0 with geolocator recaptured at Port Fairy, Australia

Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on October 19, 2016

Birgita Hansen, Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation, Federation University Australia The Latham’s Snipe project team is excited to have recaptured their first snipe at Port…

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Australasian Wader Studies Group Conference

Posted by EAAFP communications on October 17, 2016

Adrian Riegen, P?korokoro-Miranda Naturalists Trust (PMNT) Every two years the Australasian Wader Study Group (AWSG) holds a conference known as the Australasian Shorebird Conference (ASC). It is…

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How to build a site managers network?

Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on October 11, 2016

Spike Millington, Chief Executive, EAAFP Secretariat I wrote the last introduction of the Newsletter from the World Conservation Congress in Hawaii, and I write this one…

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EAAFP Secretariat joins the Borneo Bird Festival

Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on October 8, 2016

Eugene Cheah, Contributing Photographer The EAAFP Secretariat joined the Borneo Bird Festival (15-17 September 2016, Rainforest Discovery Center, Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia) and gave a talk about migratory…

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