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The VWSG, made up of 140 volunteers, has contributed to monitoring of waders in Victoria and SE Australia for 40 years. We have a number of important monitoring around Melb, including Port Philip & Western Port Bay #SCBMelb21
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Through long-term capture/banding/flagging in Vic, starting in 1974, our data have contributed to measuring population decline of waders across the East Asian Aus Flyway. REF: nature.com/articles/ncomm…
Note diff ⬇️trajectories in Curlew Sandpiper & Red-necked Stint. #SCBMelb21
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These waders which we captured in Australia migrate to the Arctic to breed, annually.
Through fitting of geos on birds in Western Port Bay we find that Red-necked Stint (blue) and Curlew Sandpiper (orange) have similar migration routes, but different strategies #SCBMelb21
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Curlew Sandpiper use fewer stop-over sites along migration, with more reliance on Yellow Sea than Red-necked Stint.
This "minor" difference may be driving differences in trajectories of ⬇️ population decline
Useful data for conservation strategies along EAAF #SCBMelb21
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Through data collected by our local heros, we can have a global impact for waders!
Publication: doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…
You are welcome to join us in the field: vwsg.org.au
If you see a banded wader, please report it vhost2009.hosted-sites.deakin.edu.au/importing/impo…
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