All posts tagged spoon-billed sandpiper
TN49 Chris Collins on Chukotka and Spoon-billed Sandpipers
A conversation with Chris Collins, a highly-experienced guide with Heritage Expeditions, the New Zealand-based ecotourism company that became a Species Champion for the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper in August last year. Chris has just (literally just) returned from Chukotka, north-eastern Russia, as part of a large team of aviculturalists, scientists, and birders who are involved in a remarkable project to discover new breeding populations of this iconic and rapidly declining shorebird and to develop a captive conservation breeding programme in the UK.
BirdLife Species Champions strike gold in Chukotka
From BirdLife International's Community page: http://www.birdlife.org/community/2011/07/birdlife-species-champions-strike-gold-in-chukotka/
Heritage Expeditions – a BirdLife Species Champion supporting Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation through the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme – struck gold this
TN47 The Conference Calls and Tim loses it…
The one where we discuss twitching scoters (with a 'live' report by correspondent 'Tim Conney' from a headland in Scotland), signing epetitions, the Spoon-billed Sandpiper captive breeding programme,
TN41 Christoph Zöckler on the Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Back in January I posted a podcast with Jim Lawrence, Manager of BirdLife International's Preventing Extinctions Programme, and Chris Collins, a tour leader with Heritage Expeditions (a
Captive breeding programme for the Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Having been close to work to conserve the beautiful and Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper for many years (mostly through the NGO Birds Korea which I helped set
Spoony wins hearts and votes from Disney’s Friends for Change
From the BirdLife Community website, Thu, Mar 24, 2011:
‘Saving Spoony’s Chinese Wetlands’, BirdLife’s project to save two key resting and feeding sites used by Critically Endangered
Rare species benefit from fund for threatened birds
Interesting news from the BirdLife International Community webpage:
The Birdfair/RSPB Research Fund for Endangered Birds has announced its latest round of grants with some of the world’s most
TN18 BirdLife, Heritage, and Spoon-billed Sandpipers
One of the most challenging issues faced by conservationists working to save the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper from extinction has been establishing exactly where they breed in the
Help the Spoon-billed Sandpiper
If we don’t do something to save the Spoon-billed Sandpiper RIGHT NOW we will soon lose one of the world’s most enigmatic shorebirds. I’m no great fan of
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