Technology coming to the aid of spoonie: finding the unknown
19 Jun 2017
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From Nigel Clark on behalf of the Satellite tagging team. In 2009, Rhys Green and I were tasked with assessing how we could use new technology to track Spoon-billed Sandpipers. We thought that this would be an easy task but the more we looked into how we could safely attach any tag th
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News from the Field: The first eggs of 2017
15 Jun 2017
The team has collected the first eggs of the season, many more flagged birds have been seen and flooding continues to cause problems. Here’s the latest from Russia. From Roland Digby We collected the first clutch of eggs this week – four eggs were collected from the nest o
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Read the latest news bulletin from the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force
09 Jun 2017
The April 2017 edition of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force News Bulletin is available to read here. The contents are as below. Previous news bulletins are available on the SBS Task Force website. Foreword from the Editor Guest Editorial by Minister Min Kyi Win Workshop on SBS Nat
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News from the Field: First update from the team
04 Jun 2017
We’re very pleased to be able to share the first news from the field with you. Roland and the BirdsRussia team have been at the breeding grounds for almost a month now but have had a more limited internet connection than usual. Below is the first update we received and we’
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All hands on deck: the 2017 breeding season is imminent
26 May 2017
It’s that time of year again! The monitoring and headstarting team have arrived at the breeding grounds in Meinypil’gyno, Russia to await the return of the spoon-billed sandpipers, and at WWT Slimbridge, we’ve moved birds to breeding aviaries and the singing and nest scrap
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