May 12, 2007 - World Migratory Birds Day - Press Release for Australasian Wader Studies Group
World Migratory Birds Day has little to celebrate at Saemangeum on the west coast of South Korea. It is now one year since the completion of the 33km sea wall which cut off the life giving tides to 40,000ha of tidal mudflat. Huge numbers of migrant birds are expected to perish due to the world's largest land reclamation project, which has all but destroyed their most important refuelling station. more
May 12, 2007 - Bar-tailed Godwits arrive back in Alaska
At least four of the Bar-tailed Godwits being tracked by satellite have reached their breeding grounds in Alaska after stopping in the Yellow Sea to put on extra fat for the final journey and establishment. more
May 12, 2007 - Colour flagging and banding research needs your help
You can help to put migration routes and stopover sites on the map by looking for colour marked birds travelling through the Asia Pacific in your part of the world and reporting them to the banding authority in your country or sending them through the APSN, who will make sure they reach the appropriate people. more
May 12, 2007 - World Migratory Bird Day - launch of the Asian Waterbird Census 2002-2004 results
Wetlands International is pleased to release the latest results of the Asian Waterbird Census (AWC) at the World Migratory Waterbird Day. The new publication entitled "Numbers and distribution of waterbirds and wetlands in the Asia-Pacific region", results of the Asian Waterbird Census 2002–2004 provides the count results from 2,032 sites in 22 countries. more
May 4, 2007 - World Migratory Bird Day - Migratory birds in a changing climate
World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) is a global initiative devoted to celebrating migratory birds and for promoting their conservation worldwide. This year WMBD will take place on the weekend of 12-13 May and its central theme will be "Migratory birds in a changing climate". more
March 29, 2007 - Bar-tailed Godwits arrived in northern China after a nine day non-stop flight!
The news yesterday morning is that the experiment of putting satellite transmitters on Bar-tailed Godwits in New Zealand to track their northward migration has been a resounding success. more
March 20, 2007 - Satellite-tagged Bar-tailed Godwits – from New Zealand to Arctic Tundra
On this website in January this year you read about the marathon flight of the Bar-tailed Godwits (sub-species baueri). These birds fly direct from Alaska to Australia or New Zealand non-stop, a distance of 11,000 km, across the Pacific Ocean. Birds stayed on the wing for up to 9.5 days without a rest – surely the longest flight for a land bird. more
March 7, 2007 - "Waterbirds around the world" Released
On 12 March 2007, the much anticipated book "Waterbirds around the World" will be officially released at an international ceremony in The Hague, The Netherlands. more
February 7, 2007 - Record Number of Nordmann's Greenshank
With a population estimate of less than 1000 birds, Nordmann's Greenshank is one of the world's most threatened migratory shorebirds. It was therefore a surprise when a flock of up to 70 birds (possibly 10% of the world population) were observed in Malaysia during a survey at Sungai Nibong (3° 35' N, 101° 04' E) at 6pm on 3 February 2007. more
February 7, 2007 - Republic of Korea - Australia Migratory Bird Agreement signed
Migratory birds and their habitat in Australia and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) will be protected under the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Korea and the Government of Australia on the Protection of Migratory Birds which was signed on 6 December at Parliament House, Canberra. more
January 23, 2007 - Shorebirds complete marathon trans-Pacific flights
Buoyed by the success we had in 2005 in attaching satellite transmitters to nesting Bar-tailed Godwits (see January 2006 Tattler), we expanded the effort in 2006 to include both Bar-tailed Godwits and Bristle-thighed Curlews. Between early August and late September we followed the southward flights of 9 Bristle-thighed Curlews and 5 Bar-tailed Godwits as they departed their Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta staging grounds. more