Four more WaderTales blogs are on the way: 1️⃣ Knot at night 2️⃣ When to mow (or graze) a meadow 3️⃣ Right vegetation for Curlew chicks 4️⃣ The eggs that don't hatch There are already 160 wader/shorebird blogs in the catalogue: wadertales.wordpress.com/abo… #ornithology 📷 Hatching Curlew

Cute and critically endangered! Spoon-billed Sandpiper blog published OTD in 2020, with four updates added since 🎂 wadertales.wordpress.com/202… #ornithology #waders #shorebirds

Moulting is a long and energetic-process. Golden Plovers get started early. Blog from 23 Oct 2018 🎂 wadertales.wordpress.com/201… #ornithology

BirdTrack graph for Woodcock shows that few continental birds have arrived in Britain & Ireland. To conserve UK breeding population, most people think shooting season should not open on 1 October* More here: wadertales.wordpress.com/cat… #ornithology * 1 September in Scotland

Another Bar-tailed Godwit anniversary. Five years ago, Roeland Bom and colleagues introduced a new subspecies. wadertales.wordpress.com/202… #ornithology

Rethinking Bar-tailed Godwits in Europe/Africa. Genetics study rewrites a migration story and sets new conservation priorities. 🎂1️⃣ wadertales.wordpress.com/202… #ornithology

If you're interested in wader migration ... Four tales added to compendium of blogs about shorebird migration - Oystercatcher, Dotterel, Whimbrel and multispecies. wadertales.wordpress.com/201… 🎂7⃣ #birds #shorebirds #waders #ornithology

"Where are my parents?" Several juvenile Oystercatchers have been tracked from Iceland to Ireland/Britain but where are their colour-ringed parents? More about project: wadertales.wordpress.com/202… Two examples - dads found in Heysham and at Dawlish Warren! (amended map)

The latest Oystercatcher WaderTales blog is a call for colour-ring sightings. Verónica and colleagues are satellite-tracking juveniles but they need to know where their colour-ringed parents spend the winter. Read about the earliest findings: wadertales.wordpress.com/202… #birds

Blog for bird photographers. wadertales.wordpress.com/202… 🎂 #ornithology

Icelandic Golden Plovers are on the way! Many waders link Iceland and Ireland: wadertales.wordpress.com/201… Some Golden Plovers from Iceland will make it as far as France and Portugal. @birdwatchireland.bsky.social Map from Tómas Gunnarsson.

Icelandic Oystercatcher migration - a thread summarising eleven years of research by Verónica Méndez et al. The questions - and a call for colour-ring sightings: wadertales.wordpress.com/201… Published OTD in 2015. 🎂 #ornithology #waders #shorebirds 1/6

If you have ever reported a colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit, this blog was written for you! wadertales.wordpress.com/201… Updated Cley-focused blog 🎂 #ornithology #Norfolk

Good news! RSPB in Norfolk will receive 3 more years of money for Ringed Plover protection work. Distributions of plovers and people are predictable - which helps when you're trying to make sure that there is space for both! Background: wadertales.wordpress.com/202…

Should researchers be handling wader chicks? Important paper about conservation and disturbance by Camilo Carneiro, summarised in WaderTales blog #140: wadertales.wordpress.com/202… 🎂2⃣ #ornithology #waders #shorebirds

Three of these six wader species are red-listed in the UK. Which ones? Answers in this blog about the eleven wader species on the list and how they 'earned' their places: wadertales.wordpress.com/202… 🎂4️⃣ #ornithology #waders #shorebirds

Migration of juvenile Sanderlings is not strategic - things just happen. wadertales.wordpress.com/201… 🎂7️⃣ #ornithology #waders #shorebirds

Early spring arrival in Iceland creates opportunities to adapt to breeding conditions - something that may pay dividends in a changing climate. wadertales.wordpress.com/202… Blog about paper by Josh Nightingale in IBIS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #ornithology

🎂 This ten-year old blog about breeding #Whimbrel may be of interest to researchers and volunteers involved in #Curlew conservation. wadertales.wordpress.com/201… #ornithology

#WaderTales started with a bang OTD in 2015. 🎂 First blog asked why volcanoes can be good for breeding #waders/#shorebirds. wadertales.wordpress.com/201… 160 blogs have been read in 210 countries since 2015. wadertales.wordpress.com/abo… #ornithology