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Wader Conservation World SUPPORTING Watch Special SHOREBIRD Wader Quest the newsletter CONSERVATION Forthcoming talks: Wader Conservation World Watch Special 07/12/2015 Hemel Hempstead RSPB local group. 20.00 In 2013 Elis and I started plan- vation World Watch. This we felt The Cavendish School, Warners ning an event that we hoped fitted the bill much better. End Road, Hemel Hempstead. would bring the plight of waders What is it then are we trying HP1 3DW. to a worldwide audience, we to achieve? Rainforest destruc- were aware that although the tion is a widely known and 07/01/2016 Woodbridge RSPB threats to waders had never chronic problem for environ- local Group. 19.30 Woodbridge been greater, awareness of mentalists and there can hardly Community Hall, Station Road, those threats, even among bird- be a person alive who is not Woodbridge, Suffolk. IP12 4AU. ers, was not growing in propor- aware, to some extent, of the tion, in short, the crisis was un- wholesale destruction of these 16/02/2016 Milton Keynes folding almost unnoticed. magnificent tracts of natural Natural History Society. We decided that it would be heritage. But, what of the rela- (Waders of Milton Keynes) appropriate to have the event tively new and under recognised 20.00 Cruck Barn Alston Dr, coincide with the anniversary of tragedy that is befalling our wet- Milton Keynes MK13 9AP the first day of the travelling we lands, especially the intertidal undertook in search of the zone which appears to be in the 19/03/2016 Walsall RSPB local world’s waders, when we set out sights of every developer on group. 19.30 St. Mary’s Primary to raise money for the Spoon- earth? So that was the theme we School, Jessica Road, Walsall, billed Sandpiper at the beginning This acute problem it seemed followed this year and with a WS1 3AY of November 2012. We were a to us was not sufficiently well strict refusal to chase birds and bit late to get organised for appreciated. The plight of the lists after the fact simply to add 14/04/2016 Gravesend RSPB 2013, after all we were still trav- Spoon-billed Sandpiper has gone them to the list. That said we did local group. 19.30 North Fleet elling at that time and so it was a long way to highlighting the accept lists from people who School for Girls, Hall Road, decided our big world event problems waders in general are had not heard about the event Gravesend, DA11 8AQ. would happen in November facing, but we found that still but had seen waders that week- 2014. too many people were not cog- end and then contacted us sub- 17/05/2016 York RSPB local The event, considering the nisant of the fact that millions of sequently saying they would group. 19.30 Temple Hall, limited reach and marketing and waders were facing unprece- have joined had they known. We York St John University, publicity experience we had, was dented threats, all of which are also followed up on people who Lord Mayors Walk, pretty successful although I con- caused by human activity of one had expressed an interest to join York. YO31 7EL fess there was a certain amount sort or another. us before the event but had not of after the event list chasing. sent in their results; we did not The result was that we had seen, however go looking for anyone, Inside this Wader Conservation between us, half of the world’s they all came to us. World Watch special issue: waders, a reasonable result for a Although we had said from Table of countries and species seen first attempt. the outset that it was not neces- 2-6 However, we did not think sary to count the waders seen to that we had quite achieved what take part in Wader Conservation Roll of Honour of participants by we had set out to do, the event World Watch many people do so country and region 7-8 had been rather more list orien- Wader Conservation World as part of their normal birding Statistics and maps for 2014 & 2015 tated than it should have been. Watch then was to become that routine and those we encour- 9 We really wanted the event to beacon of hope for anyone con- aged to send their lists to a citi- be much more about conserva- nected with wader conservation, zen science project like eBird or Summary 10-11 tion than listing, so we changed as a professional or volunteer, to BirdTrack as all observations are the title from Wader Quest draw more attention to the work of value. Species list with details of country World Watch to Wader Conser- that is going on and that still So what you see in the results and state with numbers where needs to be done. Raising this year is not a demonstration counted. 12-16 awareness about these prob- of how many people we can tap lems is crucial to the success up for their list, but a demon- Our WCWW weekend 17 that we may achieve in dealing stration of the number of people with them. Change happens we have reached around the when enough people care suffi- world with our message and ciently for it to happen. who felt strongly enough to Wader Conservation The idea then was that peo- stand up with us and be counted World Watch 3 ple would go out to see waders and to say that they too care because they still can. In this about what is happening. 5th & 6th Nov. 2016 way they are signing what amounts to an informal petition Make a note in your diary now. to say “I Care!” © Wader Quest 2015. All rights reserved. Page 2 Wader Quest the newsletter Country Northern Northern Ireland New Zealand New Netherlands Africa South Korea South The The Gambia Philippines Argentina Paraguay Denmark Australia Malaysia Anguilla Belgium Bulgaria Ecuador Panama Sweden Canada Mexico Taiwan Cyprus France Japan Brazil Spain 2015 Chile India Peru USA Species in blue indicate they UK were seen in 2014 and/or 2015 Species Lesser Jacana African Jacana Madagascar Jacana Comb-crested Jacana Pheasant-tailed Jacana Bronze-winged Jacana Northern Jacana Wattled Jacana Greater Painted-Snipe Australian Painted-Snipe South American Painted-Snipe Crab-Plover Magellanic Oystercatcher Blackish Oystercatcher American Black Oystercatcher American Oystercatcher African Black Oystercatcher Eurasian Oystercatcher South Island Oystercatcher Pied Oystercatcher Variable Oystercatcher Chatham Oystercatcher Sooty Oystercatcher Ibisbill Black-winged Stilt White-headed Stilt Black-necked Stilt White-backed Stilt Black Stilt Banded Stilt Pied Avocet American Avocet Red-necked Avocet Andean Avocet Eurasian Stone-Curlew Indian Stone-Curlew Senegal Thick-knee Water Thick-knee Spotted Thick-knee Double-striped Thick-knee Peruvian Thick-knee Bush Stone-Curlew Great Stone-Curlew Beach Stone-Curlew Egyptian Plover Double-banded Courser Heuglin's Courser Bronze-winged Courser Cream-coloured Courser © Wader Quest 2015. 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Wader Conservation World Watch Special Page 3 Country Northern Northern Ireland New Zealand New Netherlands Africa South Korea South The The Gambia Philippines Argentina Paraguay Denmark Australia Malaysia Anguilla Belgium Bulgaria Ecuador Panama Sweden Canada Mexico Taiwan Cyprus France Japan Brazil Spain 2015 Chile India Peru USA Species in blue indicate they UK were seen in 2014 and/or 2015 Species Burchell's Courser Indian Courser Temminck's Courser Australian Pratincole Collared Pratincole Oriental Pratincole Black-winged Pratincole Madagascar Pratincole Rock Pratincole Grey Pratincole Small Pratincole Northern Lapwing Long-toed Lapwing Blacksmith Lapwing Spur-winged Lapwing River Lapwing Black-headed Lapwing Yellow-wattled Lapwing White-crowned Lapwing Senegal Lapwing Black-winged Lapwing Crowned Lapwing African Wattled Lapwing Spot-breasted Lapwing Brown-chested Lapwing Grey-headed Lapwing Red-wattled Lapwing Javan Lapwing Banded Lapwing Masked Lapwing Sociable Lapwing White-tailed Lapwing Pied Lapwing Southern Lapwing Andean Lapwing Red-kneed Dotterel European Golden Plover Pacific Golden Plover American Golden Plover Grey Plover Northern Red-breasted Plover Southern Red-breasted Plover Common Ringed Plover Semipalmated Plover Long-billed Plover Little Ringed Plover Wilson's Plover Killdeer © Wader Quest 2015. 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Page 4 Wader Quest the newsletter Country Northern Northern Ireland New Zealand New Netherlands Africa South Korea South The The Gambia Philippines Argentina Paraguay Denmark Australia Malaysia Anguilla Belgium Bulgaria Ecuador Panama Sweden Canada Mexico Taiwan Cyprus France Japan Brazil Spain 2015 Chile India Peru USA Species in blue indicate they UK were seen in 2014 and/or 2015 Species Piping Plover Madagascar Plover Kittlitz's Plover St. Helena Plover Three-banded Plover Forbes's Plover White-fronted Plover Kentish Plover Snowy Plover White-faced Plover Javan Plover Red-capped Plover Malaysian Plover Chestnut-banded Plover Collared Plover Puna Plover Two-banded Plover Double-banded Plover Mongolian Sandplover Lesser Sandplover Greater Sand Plover Caspian Plover Oriental Plover Eurasian Dotterel Rufous-chested Plover Mountain Plover Hooded Dotterel Shore Dotterel Black-fronted Dotterel Inland Dotterel Wrybill Diademed Plover Tawny-throated Dotterel Magellanic Plover Eurasian Woodcock Amami Woodcock New Guinea Woodcock Bukidnon Woodcock Sulawesi Woodcock Moluccan Woodcock American Woodcock Chatham Snipe South Island Snipe Snares Snipe Subantarctic Snipe Jack Snipe Solitary Snipe Latham's Snipe Wood Snipe © Wader Quest 2015. 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