Spoony and friends – the breeding waders of Meina
05 Aug 2019
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Blog from Guy Anderson (Nature Recovery Unit, RSPB) While searching for spoonies on the tundra around Meina, we often bump into other waders rushing through their short breeding season. Some of these share much of their year with our spoony friends. Red-necked, Long-toed and Temminck’
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News from the field: Collection Complete
01 Aug 2019
After a slow start locating spoonie pairs, relentless searching (and a bit of luck) enabled us to find several more pairs and 9 clutches were collected for headstarting. The incubator now has 34 precious Spoonie eggs developing within it! By collecting eggs this early in the season it
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01 Aug 2019
They’re on their way! We’ve had a few problems posting this year but the team have still been compiling them and we now have four installments ready for you that will be posted over the next couple of days. Our sincere apologies there’s been a delay but we hope you e
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Slimbridge Spoonies: They hatched, they grew, they fledged!
01 Aug 2019
Update from Jodie Clements After what felt like an eternity, the eggs had finally been incubated long enough to see whether or not they were fertile… we had some concerns over fertility as no obviously successful copulations had been witnessed. You may be thinking, well this is a priv
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News from the field: The Kerzhak camp – four go surveying on the tundra
22 Jun 2019
Update by Guy Anderson (Nature Recovery Unit, RSPB). The first week after spoonies arrive back on their breeding grounds in early June is a critical time to find territories. This is when they are most vocal – lots of displaying, and lots of singing – a Dunlin-like bubbling tril
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Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper
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