Links

 Websites on waders (shorebirds)   International Wader Study Group (IWSG)  >>> Australasian Wader Studies Group >>> Victorian Wader Study Group (VWSG) >>> Pan American Shorebird Program (PASP) >>> The International Shorebird Surveys >>> U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan >>> Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network (WHSRN) >>> Western Atlantic Shorebird Association (WASA) >>> Shorebird research in New Zealand and the East Asian-Australasian …

Bibliography

Data from the database ISI Web of Knowledge(includesScience Citation Index, from 1991 with abstracts). Queries were made using keywords, and results were edited manually to removed coincidental entries unrelated to waders/shorebirds. Download archive file: Period Procite format rft delimited text 1988 – 2005 download, 2,5 MB download, 1.2 MB download, 1.3 MB 2006 – 2009 download, 1.2 MB download, 0.6MB …

Hunting on waders

Several species of waders are traditionally hunted in European countries including European Russia. These are primarily Woodcock, Great Snipe, Common Snipe and Jack Snipe. Hunting on Whimbrels is popular in autumn in some areas of the Russian Far East, where these birds are called “yagodnik” in Russian (=berry-eater). A majority of small-sized species of waders (with exception of snipes) are …

Species and subspecies of waders (shorebirds) included in the Red Data Books of the CIS countries

  Species (subspecies, population) of wader Inclusion in national Red Data Book and status * Russia 2001 Belorus 2004 Ukraine 1994 Kasakhstan 1996 Tadzhikistan 1988 Turkmenistan 1999 Kirgizstan Uzbekistan 2003 European Stone-curlew Burhinusoedicnemus   1     2 3     Southern Eurasian (European) Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria apricaria 3 3             (Common) Ringed Plover …

Conservation of waders

Activities aiming at support of diversity and high numbers of waders belong to the WGW priorities along with fundamental studies of these birds. Various activities of people increasingly affect wild nature including waders and their habitats. Hunting, melioration of wetlands, regulation of river flow, reclamation of floodplains and deltas, and concentration of human population along coasts of water bodies and …

Faunistic Commission of the Working Group on Waders

 Absence of a competent expert group in the USSR responsible for investigation of unusual records of birds, in particular belonging to species of difficult identification, has been always a reason of confusion and mistakes in scientific information on distribution. Creation of such an expert group became especially relevant when collecting of birds for scientific purposes has gradually started giving place …

Colour-marking of waders

 What is colour-marking?To get information from a bird ringed with a standard metal ring requires that the bird need to be recaptured, shot or found dead. Individual or group marking of birds with bright marks allowing to record their identity from a distance is known as colour-marking. In the case of waders this technique can lead to more effective accumulation …

Ringing of waders

Moscow Bird Ringing Center, Moscow, 117312, Russia, e-mail: bird.ring.rus@gmail.com, Phone: +7(499)783-3226 What for to ring birds?Ringing is marking of birds with standard metal bands that have unique numbers and put on bird legs. Information about marked bird can be obtained by reading ring number which usually becomes possible on re-capture, finding of dead bird or under favourable circumstances by reading …