Second half of the 19th – 20th centuries. Accumulation of data about species diversity and distribution of waders. Beginning of the 20th century. The first summary of data on waders (Buturlin 1902, 1905. “Waders of the Russian Empire”). Studies focused on waders have started. Soviet period prior to 1950. Collection of occasional information in course of faunistic surveys. Analysis of …

Englishname Latin Status Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirurgus vagrant European Stone-curlew Burhinus oedicnemus breeding Painted Snipe Rostratula benghalensis vagrant Grey (Black-bellied) Plover Pluvialis squatarola breeding Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva breeding American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica breeding Eurasian (European) Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria breeding (Common) Ringed Plover Сharadrius hiaticula breeding Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus breeding Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius breeding …

Waders (or shorebirds) is a group of allied birds forming together with gulls and auks the Order Charadriiformes. Previously waders were distinguished as a separate order or sub-order Limicolae. However, currently an increasing amount of evidence is accumulating in favour of an opinion that waders are not monophyletic and consist of two lineages of birds, in one of which plovers, …

Constitution of the Working Group on Waders describes structure, way of functioning and main aims of this non-governmental organization, originally created in 1987 within the All-Union Ornithological Society of the USSR Academy of Sciences The WGW aims to: maintain contacts between both amateurs and professionals studying and conserving waders help organize co-operative studies; and provide a vehicle for exchange of …

WGW Executive Committee: T.R. Andreeva – secretary of the Executive Committee Y.N. Gerasimov – representative of Russia in the Shorebird Working Group of East Asian-Australasian Flyway A.P. Ivanov Y.N. Kasatkina A.I. Korzyukov A.I. Matsina Y.I. Melnikov V.V. Morozov A.Y. Okolelov P.V. Pinchuk T.V. Sviridova – editor of the “Information Materials of the WGW“ M.Y. Soloviev P.S. Tomkovich (chairman) V.V. Khrokov I.I. Chernichko A.O. …

Waders, or shorebirds is a diverse group of small to medium-sized waterbirds. They can be found in suitable habitats almost everywhere, including wastelands and waterbodies of large cities like Moscow or St.-Petersburg, while in some regions (tundra) waders are the most abundant birds. Waders demonstrate a remarkable diversity of mating systems and unique long-distance transcontinental seasonal migrations. Many species are …