The Wetland Bird Survey (@WeBS_UK) and Goose & Swan Monitoring Programme (#GSMP_UK) are volunteer-based UK monitoring schemes for non-breeding waterbirds.
Mar 5, 2021 • 13 tweets • 8 min read
The results for waders from the 2015/16 Non-Estuarine Waterbird Survey, NEWS III, have just been published in the @_BTO journal Bird Study. Most of the wader species of the open coast are declining. Let’s take a closer look at some of the results ⬇️ #WeBSOnRocks#BTOScience 1/13
The most abundant wader in the 2015/16 NEWS III survey of the open coast was Oystercatcher. Average density was highest on the Welsh non-estuarine coast. #WeBSOnRocks 2/13