Headstarting is a collaborative effort between WWT, BirdsRussia and the RSPB, and occurs as part of the International Arctic Expedition mounted each year by BirdsRussia under the leadership of Dr. Evgeny Syroechkovskiy.

Date:27 Oct 2016

Ewan Weston

Ewan Weston

Ewan Weston

Ewan joined the team in 2015. In 2015 and 2016 he was part of the wader ringing team working with Nanjing Normal University catching spoon-billed sandpipers and other waders on the Jiangsu coast in China. Ewan works as an ecologist in Scotland on Golden Eagles and carried out his PhD on their juvenile dispersal behaviour. He has been a licensed bird ringer in the UK for 17 years, with interests predominantly in waders and terns.

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thaibirdingNick Upton@thaibirding·
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The UK government have given me a unique opportunity to retrain as a model. Here I am with the Spoon-billed Sandpiper #tshirt I designed which is available to order here - https://teespring.com/stores/thaibirding #birding #tshirt #spoonbilledsandpiper #savespoonie #birdwatching #birds #birdshirt

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BazWWTBaz Hughes@BazWWT·
23 Oct

There's also a marvellous Wader Tales blog from @GrahamFAppleton about our marvellous spoonie satellite tracking project:
https://wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/10/22/spoon-billed-sandpipers-track-and-trace/

International conservation in action for #savespoonie

Wader Study@WaderStudy

Post-breeding migration of adult Spoon-billed Sandpipers
By Chang et al.

https://www.waderstudygroup.org/article/14536/
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology #spoonbillsandpiper

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