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.

Yellow ET at the Minjiang Estuary, Fujian, China on 29 October 2016. Photo by Du Feng-luan / Fujian Bird Watching Society.

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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