May 16, 2008 - World famous 'Mo Po Nature Reserve' Manager vacancy
With the departure of Lew Young to take up a position with Ramsar in Switzerland a challenging, but exciting, position becomes available. more
May 11, 2008 - Spoon-billed Sandpiper Recovery Team update
A Spoon-billed Sandpiper Recovery Team raise hopes for this endangered species but also identify hunting as a major threat in Russia. more
May 11, 2008 - "Grand Canal" project threat in Korea
The South Korean Government plans another massive infrastructure which threatens Upo Wetlands and Threatened bird species. more
May 11, 2008 - First male satellite-tagged godwit arrived in Alaska on World Migratory Birds Day
This year's satellite tracking program between New Zealand and Alaska is well underway via the Yellow Sea. more
May 11, 2008 - AWSG Launches new website for World Migratory Birds Day
The Australasian Wader Studies Group has recently updated and moved its website, which is launched to commemorate today, World Migratory Birds Day. more
April 7, 2008 - Australian Satellite-tagged Bar-tailed Godwits join New Zealand birds on migration
Today the first satellite transmission was received from a satellite-tagged Bar-tailed Godwit en route for the Yellow Sea from north Western Australia. H3 (a female) is now well on her way flying past the western side of Sulawesi and should be joining New Zealand satellite-tagged birds already in the Yellow Sea in the next few days. more
April 7, 2008 - World's oldest Bar-tailed Godwit
A Bar-tailed Godwit caught at Broome, north Western Australia, in November 2007 caused some excitement for the banding team when one of the birds had an old metal band on its leg which, when banding records were consulted, turned out to be more the 27 years old. The bird was first banded on the very first expedition to Broome by the Australasian Wader Studies Group in September 1981. This is six years older than any previous record for this species.
March 4, 2008 - New discoveries about non-breeding grounds of Spoon-billed Sandpiper
In January members of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Recovery Team, working in two groups, discovered major non-breeding grounds of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper in the state of Arakan in the Bay of Bengal and Martaban Bay, near the border of Thailand. more