Date:01 Nov 2016
Richard Hesketh
Richard manages the reserve at WWT’s Caerlaverock Wetland Centre on the shores of the Solway Firth. He joined WWT in the 1970s and worked at Slimbridge with both the captive collection birds and on the reserve. Since moving to Caerlaverock in 1986 he has mainly been Reserve Manager. Richard has led more than 10 WWT expeditions to Iceland working on whooper swans. His previous Russian experience was on a Bewick’s swan expedition.
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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
Post-breeding migration of adult Spoon-billed Sandpipers
By Chang et al.
https://www.waderstudygroup.org/article/14536/
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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!
@SpoonTask
@BirdLife_Asia
@WaderStudy
#SaveSpoonie
https://www.eaaflyway.net/legflagchallenge-webinar/
[2/2] You can download the kit for free here. https://bit.ly/3iIgXew
If you would like to #translate the kit into your language, please contact #HKBWS and I am sure they are very willing to work with you!
#SaveSpoonie #勺嘴鷸 #勺嘴鹬 #ヘラシギ
11 #ISTC20 #Sesh7 For example, #HKBWS and @wbsj_tsubame made this educational material on spoon-billed sandpipers in 5 languages. This requires much more effort than just producing it in one language but it’s needed for the material to be used by local educators across countries.
Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper
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