Spring Waders 1/12
@BirdTrack tells us that the first Little Ringed Plovers are arriving back in the UK. They are not the only #waders on the move, as you can read here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/whi…
I'll pull out some highlights in this thread.
@BirdTrack tells us that the first Little Ringed Plovers are arriving back in the UK. They are not the only #waders on the move, as you can read here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/whi…
I'll pull out some highlights in this thread.
Spring #waders 2/12
Stone-curlews are arriving too, most having spent the winter in Spain, Portugal, Morocco or Algeria. You can find them on their territories during the day but they will feed elsewhere at night. More here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/26/gra…
#ornithology
Stone-curlews are arriving too, most having spent the winter in Spain, Portugal, Morocco or Algeria. You can find them on their territories during the day but they will feed elsewhere at night. More here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/26/gra…
#ornithology
Spring #waders 3/12
Greenshank are on the move. Scottish-breeders have already left English estuaries. Their feeding spots will soon be used by birds that have wintered further south and are heading for Scandinavia:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/03/23/mig…
#ornithology
Greenshank are on the move. Scottish-breeders have already left English estuaries. Their feeding spots will soon be used by birds that have wintered further south and are heading for Scandinavia:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/03/23/mig…
#ornithology
Spring #waders 4/12
UK-breeding Oystercatchers are on territory and the first Icelandic birds have flown north. 2021 paper revealed that migratory behaviour of #Iceland's Oystercatcher chicks is linked to behaviour of fathers (not mothers):
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/oys…
#ornithology
UK-breeding Oystercatchers are on territory and the first Icelandic birds have flown north. 2021 paper revealed that migratory behaviour of #Iceland's Oystercatcher chicks is linked to behaviour of fathers (not mothers):
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/oys…
#ornithology
Spring #waders 5/12
#Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits won't start leaving until April but breeding birds of the limosa race will soon be arriving in the Ouse and Nene Washes.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/god…
#ornithology
#Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits won't start leaving until April but breeding birds of the limosa race will soon be arriving in the Ouse and Nene Washes.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/god…
#ornithology
Spring #waders 6/12
I wonder how many red-listed Scottish Dotterel will return in April? Recruitment of young birds into the breeding population seems to be dependent upon conditions in North Africa, as you can read here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/sco…
#ornithology
I wonder how many red-listed Scottish Dotterel will return in April? Recruitment of young birds into the breeding population seems to be dependent upon conditions in North Africa, as you can read here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/sco…
#ornithology
Spring #waders 7/12
Some passage waders drop in to the UK on the way from Africa to Scandinavia. There's a spring blip on the Green Sandpiper @BirdTrack graph - but much less obvious than autumn passage:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/04/12/gre…
#ornithology
Some passage waders drop in to the UK on the way from Africa to Scandinavia. There's a spring blip on the Green Sandpiper @BirdTrack graph - but much less obvious than autumn passage:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/04/12/gre…
#ornithology
Spring #waders 8/12
Several wader species link the UK to Scandinavia & Finland - Fennoscandia is a veritable 'wader factory':
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/fen…
#ornithology
Several wader species link the UK to Scandinavia & Finland - Fennoscandia is a veritable 'wader factory':
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/fen…
#ornithology
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