A very exciting blog topic today! Read about our director, Mary Colwell, who has been awarded an MBE!
Royal Recognition, by Graham Appleton, available to read now:
www.curlewaction.org/royal-recogn...
Pioneering Oystercatcher!
Up until about 1840, British Oystercatchers were coastal breeders. Inland nests first appeared in Grampian (Scotland), a trend that spread to England by about 1900.
Now, many pairs breed on roof tops.
More here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/o...
#BirdingScotland
This weekend, UK birdwatchers will be counting Wetland Birds for @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social.
With most waders away, breeding, this is a great opportunity to count non-breeding 'teenagers'.
Why are they important?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/08/28/t...
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NEW on #theBOUblog from Lillias August
Reaching into another world: Watercolour painting at BOU 2026 Conference, ‘Birds and People’
bou.org.uk/blog-augu...
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Graham Appleton
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As wader chicks forage for insect food in the grass, they are easy targets for ticks.
Blog about the impacts that ticks can have on chicks, based on paper by David Douglas and James Pearce-Higgins:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/06/04/c...
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As wader chicks forage for insect food in the grass, they are easy targets for ticks.
Blog about the impacts that ticks can have on chicks, based on paper by David Douglas and James Pearce-Higgins:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/06/04/c...
#birds
BOU
How quickly do juvenile birds learn to feed effciently?
Neat Black-tailed Godwit paper by Josh Nightingale, summarised as a WaderTales blog:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/l...
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Breeding waders and power lines.
The effects of power transmission lines can be seen 500 metres away.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/09/p...
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On this day in 2021, I wrote:
"British Curlew need to fledge 10,000 more youngsters - every year",
based on survival/productivity figures in what was then a new paper.
More here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/m...
The figure has been much quoted (and not disputed)
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The move from oil/gas to electricity is going to mean lots more power-lines. Hopefully they won't go through important wader breeding areas.
Useful info about impacts of power-lines on breeding waders:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/09/p... 🎂4️⃣
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Graham Appleton
Graham Appleton
Graham Appleton
Graham Appleton
There are three ways to increase the number of Eurasian Curlew in the UK; boost chick production across the breeding range, find ways to ensure more chicks recruit to the breeding population and/or…
