The Victorian Wader Study Group conducts long-term studies of waders and terns throughout Victoria. It has been operating since 1978.
Sep 29, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
1/5 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 #SCBMelb212/5 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
Oct 8, 2020 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
1/6 140 VWSG volunteers have been monitoring waders in SE Aus for 40 years. We have several important sites around Victoria, Tas & S. Australia for catching and banding waders. Data are used for pop monitoring, migration route, survival and repro rate assessment #ISTC20#Sesh82/6 Using geolocators we have revealed the AMAZING migration of Ruddy Turnstones. Flagging shows individuals return to exactly the same stretch of beach on King Island each summer. Adult birds migrate ~12,500km to Siberia to breed before returning #ISTC20#Sesh8
Jul 30, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
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140 VWSG volunteers have been monitoring waders in SE Aus for 40 years. We have several important sites around Victoria for catching and banding waders. Data are used for pop monitoring, migration route, survival and repro rate assessment #SCBMelb202/5
Using geolocators we have revealed the AMAZING migration of Ruddy Turnstones. Flagging shows individuals return to exactly the same stretch of beach on King Island each summer. Adult birds migrate ~12,500km to Siberia to breed before returning #SCBMelb20
