Migratory birds in the spotlight of the World Bird Festival
Written by BirdLife Community Fact sheets on threatened and migratory birds Continuing the series of educational materials for schools in the Americas, two poster-sized fact files highlight two very...
View ArticleSpoony needs your vote!
Written by BirdLife International Ed: More detail on the Disney voting. Spoon-billed Sandpiper chick. © John O'Sullivan, RSPB BirdLife’s work to save two key resting and feeding sites in China, used...
View ArticleNew eco-tourism initiative benefits Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation
Written by BirdLife International Community One of the most challenging issues faced by conservationists working to save the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper from extinction has been...
View ArticleAce navigator Erzhan emerges in Sudan for a fourth consecutive winter
Written by BirdLife Community Sociable Lapwing. Image courtesy of BirdLife International After an absence of any firm location data since early October, Erzhan – our most experienced traveller – has...
View ArticleRuddy hell: turnstone flies 27,000 kms – twice!
Written by BirdLife Community Researchers from the Victorian Wader Study Group – a special interest group of Birds Australia [BirdLife Partner] - have just recaptured a Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria...
View ArticleSpoony wins hearts and votes from Disney’s Friends for Change
Written by BirdLife Community ‘Saving Spoony’s Chinese Wetlands’, BirdLife’s project to save two key resting and feeding sites used by Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers in China, has...
View ArticleSwarovski Optik announces new conservation commitment
Written by BirdLife Community Delegates attending the inaugural meeting of the Sociable Lapwing International Working Group in Syria, last weekend, received this welcome news when Swarovski Optik...
View ArticleSouthern Cone Grasslands Alliance activities support shorebird conservation...
Written by BirdLife International Annually, Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tryngites subruficollis and American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica undertake some of the longest journeys of any migratory birds...
View ArticleSurprise report from troubled Syria
Written by BirdLife Community/BirdLife International During the current Syrian Uprising, travelling even short distances around the country has become very difficult and is in many cases extremely...
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