New mission underway to tag Spoon-billed Sandpipers
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on October 12, 201711 October, 2017 Guy Anderson, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Its October again, and the brief Arctic summer is well and truly over. The…
Continue readingNews 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 readingNews from the field: The release!
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on July 31, 201730 July 2017 Roland Digby, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper At around 12:00hrs, all 30 of the 2017 cohort of headstarted Spoon-billed…
Continue readingNews from the field: Chick of headstarted pair spotted
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on July 31, 201729 July 2017 Roland Digby, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper On the 24 July, Ivan reported seeing a Spoon-billed Sandpiper with…
Continue readingNews from the Field: Moving to the release aviary and the obligatory bear photo
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on July 21, 201720 July 2017 Roland Digby, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper On Friday 14 July, we finally got the first couple of broods of birds…
Continue readingWhat’s happening at Slimbridge?
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on July 20, 201719 July 2017 Baz Hughes, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper I think you might have all realised that there’s been a bit of blog…
Continue readingNews from the Field: Eggs hatched and release pen ready to go
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on July 17, 201713 July 2017 Roland Digby, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper At 15:30hrs on 10 July, our 30th and last chick hatched! Although we didn’t…
Continue readingNews from the Field: Hatching update from 3 July
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on July 17, 20173 July 2017 Roland Digby, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper On 1 July, clutch A pipped and were all moved from the Hemel incubator…
Continue readingNews from the Field: 38 eggs!
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on June 30, 201729 June 2017 Rebecca Lee, Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper On 24 June, the final clutch of eggs was collected from the plain at…
Continue readingThree more spoonies have been tagged to track migration south to the Yellow Sea
Posted by EAAFP Secretariat on June 29, 201724 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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