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

James Phillips

James Phillips

James Phillips

James has had a lifelong passion for birds and nature conservation and has worked for Defra and now for Natural England (the UK Government’s adviser for the natural environment in England) since 2000. He has managed Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme and currently leads on the design and delivery of Agri-environment schemes which help land managers and farmers to conserve and restore habitats for priority species, wild pollinators and farmland birds across England. Since the spring of 2014 he has led and taken part in SBS surveys in Jiangsu, China and Myanmar in February 2016 and currently sits on the SBS UK support group.

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BazWWTBaz Hughes@BazWWT·
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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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SayamChowdhurySayam U. Chowdhury@SayamChowdhury·
10 Oct

Join us in the @WMBD 2020 @EAAFP Webinar – “How can #legflags on #birds guide #conservation”, starting in 2hrs. Learn important facts about bird ringing, #migration , #citizen science and many more!

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https://www.eaaflyway.net/legflagchallenge-webinar/

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