The Working for Waders project encourages people and organisations across Scotland to collaborate on the conservation of wading birds. Home of #FarmWaderClub
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How many foxes do we need to kill to actually help the species we’re trying to conserve?
Patrick Laurie argues we’ve moved beyond simply saying “predator control is needed”.
The harder question is: how do we deliver it effectively?
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With Flo, Tijs Claes and Colin MacLennan in the fabulous RSPB Insh Marshes today watching curlews and listening to them bubbling over the wetland. Magical.
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To mark this year’s Wader Week (18-24 May), NatureScot & others in Working for Waders initiative are consulting farmers, gamekeepers & other conservationists on 14 proposed Wader Recovery Areas. c-js.uk/42N8S1Q
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Urgent Appeal: Protect Our Nesting Birds Until July!
Caring is the first step for conservation.
Piping Plover by © Pexels
Be #inspired by #waders or #shorebirds
#charity #wildlifeconservation
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Listening to farmers, when trying to conserve breeding waders.
Icelandic research by Lilja Jóhannesdóttir 🎂9️⃣
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Excellent review led by BTO and University of East Anglia.
@ForWaders contributed data from our Nest Camera Project to a major review of egg/chick predation across Britain 👇Read our blog, including a link to the article, and get in touch if you want to join the NCP. @ScotGamekeepers @scottishfarmer @DavyMcCracken @_BTO @RSPBScotland
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Trees do not make good neighbours, if you're a breeding wader.
Three blogs from the first 10 years of #WaderTales.
1️⃣ North of Scotland wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
2️⃣ Estonia
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3️⃣ Iceland wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
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This month, #WaderTales will be ten years old.
I'm going to create a thread that highlights some of the research findings that have surprised me.
Plenty of "Wow!" & "I didn't know that!" moments.
Here's a link to the catalogue of 150 blogs:
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First juvenile colourringed #redshanks for this season in 26year studying the smartest #wader in Retrapping Adults for Survival project. Go, go, go #redshank !!! @WaderStudy @waderquest @WadersForReal @GlobalFlyway @ForWaders @Waderworld1 – at Hollands Kroon, Nederland
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To round off #waderweek we have part 2 in our Thrill of the Hill wader series, where @ForWaders Patrick Laurie and RSPB's Stephen Field talk about the importance of wading birds, predator control and promoting landscape scale conservation efforts.
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Please get in touch if you want to take part, or if you need advice about monitoring 👍
Today's #WaderWeek blog looks at the importance of monitoring, focusing on the @forwaders Nest Camera Project. This is providing new insights & has contributed data to a scientific paper coming soon. 👇 @NatureScot @RSPBScotland @BASCScotland @FASScot @scottishfarmer
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Many wading birds are now priority birds for conservation action in the UK. How can farmers help them? FAS has a range of resources to help you manage these species on your farm, including podcasts, guides and a management calendar. #waderweek @ForWaders
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Tracking - what are we learning about #waders #shorebirds?
LOTS!
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One Whimbrel made all of these journeys.
The 'Global Wader' project is encouraging scientists to archive this sort of information, so that it is available for future analyses.
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Latest WaderTales blog reviews what we are learning from tracked #waders #shorebirds:
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But are researchers making full use of the data that birds collect for them?
Whimbrel map from Global Wader
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Curlew Action is small and dynamic and dedicated to protecting Curlews, their habitats, the wildlife that lives alongside them, and to promoting nature education through school and into the workplace. We rely on individual donations to survive. Please support us. Thank you so much.
We protect what we love, we love what we understand and we understand what we are taught - Baba Dioum.
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📽️ Courtesy of the Forest of Bowland Moorland Group
We had this video sent in by one of our gamekeepers, how nice to see so many Lapwing nests and chicks hatching. We work together with the farmers so we can all help these birds thrive. Stones are placed close to the nest to identify where they are so they can be avoided so they are given the best chance to hatch successfully.
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Courtesy of @dales_group
Wader fest! People can say what they want about managed uplands but this is where the nation's stronghold of waders thrive.
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Class act mating Oystercatchers on my local #YorkshireDales patch y’day - in flock of 25 OCs & 25 Lapwings, 1 #curlew and smattering of Starlings (all Red Listed). Same spot every year! @curlewcalls @GrahamFAppleton @waderquest @ForWaders @curlewrecovery @CurlewSLakes #waders
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Really good to be seeing and hearing lots of curlews this year after a good breeding season last year. Let’s hope for another good breeding season. @curlewcalls @ForWaders
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Large flocks of Lapwing, Black Tailed Godwit & Curlew have been foraging on the hay meadows, Thrilled to see amongst them 4 of the ringed birds from 2024 & 1 from 2023 reared & released at Elmley as part of the Curlews Recovery Programme #curlew #naturerecovery #WaderWednesday