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Five Black-faced Spoonbill released in Ganghwa Island, by National Institute of Ecology of Ro Korea

Posted by EAAFP communications on January 28, 2021

National Institute of Ecology (hereafter referred to as the “NIE”) under the Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea, released five Black-faced Spoonbills (IUCN: Endangered, National Species: Level I) to…

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News from the Field: 38 eggs!

Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on June 30, 2017

29 June 2017 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper On 24 June, the final clutch of eggs was collected from the plain at…

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Three more spoonies have been tagged to track migration south to the Yellow Sea

Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on June 29, 2017

24 June 2017 Nigel Clark, Saving Spoon-billed Sandpiper With funding from the Mohamed bin Zayed Conservation Fund, Nigel Clark has gone to…

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All hands on deck: the 2017 breeding season is imminent

Posted by EAAFP communications on May 29, 2017

26 May 2017 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper It’s that time of year again! The monitoring and headstarting team have…

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News from the field: And they’re off!

Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on July 28, 2016

27 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…

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News from the field: One more week until release

Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on July 25, 2016

21 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…

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News from the field: Chicks, chicks and more chicks

Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on July 11, 2016

8 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!…

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Five Black-faced Spoonbill released in Ganghwa Island, by National Institute of Ecology of Ro Korea

News from the Field: 38 eggs!

Three more spoonies have been tagged to track migration south to the Yellow Sea

All hands on deck: the 2017 breeding season is imminent

News from the field: And they’re off!

News from the field: One more week until release

News from the field: Chicks, chicks and more chicks