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WCWW Newsletter Special WADER QUEST THE NEWSLETTER WADER CONSERVATION WORLD WATCH SPECIAL Eurasian Dotterel © Shlomi Levi Welcome to WCWW7 2020 © Jean-François Cornuaille The new poster for WCWW was designed by Kirsty Yeomans aka Crow artist Contents: 20-22 - Missing species 2 - Statistics 23-31 - WCWW experiences 4-9 - Maps 32-45 - Summary 10 - Species list 46-47 - WCWW8 11-13 - Roll of Honour 48-56 - Gallery 14-15 - Participating organisation 57 - Wader Quest merchandising 16-19 - Observations 58 - Charity information © Wader Quest 2020. All rights reserved 2 Participants Species Countries Continents Flyways WCWW 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Participants 70 182 241 327 309 252 489 Species 117 124 124 131 145 135 167 Countries 19 33 38 35 37 32 53 Continents 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 Flyways 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 © Wader Quest 2020. All rights reserved 3 EUROPE © Wader Quest 2020. All rights reserved 4 AFRICA © Wader Quest 2020. All rights reserved 5 ASIA © Wader Quest 2020. All rights reserved 6 AUSTRALASIA & OCEANIA © Wader Quest 2020. All rights reserved 7 NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN © Wader Quest 2020. All rights reserved 8 SOUTH AMERICA © Wader Quest 2020. All rights reserved 9 52. Black-headed Lapwing 110. Black-tailed Godwit SPECIES 53. African Wattled Lapwing 111. Hudsonian Godwit 54. River Lapwing 112. Bar-tailed Godwit LIST 55. Grey-headed Lapwing 113. Marbled Godwit 56. Red-wattled Lapwing 114. Eurasian Whimbrel 57. Yellow-wattled Lapwing 115. Hudsonian Whimbrel 58. Masked Lapwing 116. Eurasian Curlew 1. African Jacana 59. Black-shouldered Lapwing 117. Far Eastern Curlew 2. Lesser Jacana 60. Pied Lapwing 118. Long-billed Curlew 3. Wattled Jacana 61. Andean Lapwing 119. Little Curlew 4. Northern Jacana 62. Southern Lapwing 120. Upland Sandpiper 5. Pheasant-tailed Jacana 63. Eurasian Golden Plover 121. Spotted Redshank 6. Bronze-winged Jacana 64. Pacific Golden Plover 122. Common Redshank 7. Greater Painted-Snipe 65. American Golden Plover 123. Marsh Sandpiper 8. South American Painted-Snipe 66. Grey Plover 124. Common Greenshank 9. Crab Plover 67. Northern Red-breasted Plover 125. Greater Yellowlegs 10. Magellanic Oystercatcher 68. Common Ringed Plover 126. Lesser Yellowlegs 11. Blackish Oystercatcher 69. Semipalmated Plover 127. Green Sandpiper 12. American Oystercatcher 70. Long-billed Plover 128. Solitary Sandpiper 13. Black Oystercatcher 71. Little Ringed Plover 129. Wood Sandpiper 14. African Oystercatcher 72. Wilson's Plover 130. Terek Sandpiper 15. Eurasian Oystercatcher 73. Killdeer 131. Common Sandpiper 16. South Island Pied Oystercatcher 74. Kittlitz's Plover 132. Spotted Sandpiper 17. Pied Oystercatcher 75. Three-banded Plover 133. Grey-tailed Tattler 18. Variable Oystercatcher 76. White-fronted Plover 134. Wandering Tattler 19. Sooty Oystercatcher 77. Kentish Plover 135. Willet 20. Black-winged Stilt 78. White-faced Plover 136. Ruddy Turnstone 21. White-headed Stilt 79. Snowy Plover 137. Black Turnstone 22. Black-necked Stilt 80. Piping Plover 138. Surfbird 23. White-backed Stilt 81. Chestnut-banded Plover 139. Great Knot 24. Pied Avocet 82. Red-capped Plover 140. Red Knot 25. American Avocet 83. Java Plover 141. Sanderling 26. Eurasian Stone-Curlew 84. Malaysian Plover 142. Semipalmated Sandpiper 27. Indian Stone-Curlew 85. Collared Plover 143. Western Sandpiper 28. Water Thick-knee 86. Two-banded Plover 144. Red-necked Stint 29. Spotted Thick-knee 87. Double-banded Plover 145. Little Stint 30. Double-striped Thick-knee 88. Oriental Plover 146. Temminck's Stint 31. Ibisbill 89. Caspian Plover 147. Long-toed Stint 32. Collared Pratincole 90. Rufous-chested Dotterel 148. Least Sandpiper 33. Oriental Pratincole 91. Lesser Sandplover 149. White-rumped Sandpiper 34. Rock Pratincole 92. Greater Sandplover 150. Baird's Sandpiper 35. Small Pratincole 93. Eurasian Dotterel 151. Pectoral Sandpiper 36. Two-banded Courser 94. Mountain Plover 152. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 37. Bronze-winged Courser 95. Hooded Plover 153. Curlew Sandpiper 38. Temminck's Courser 96. Black-fronted Dotterel 154. Purple Sandpiper 39. Three-banded Courser 97. Tawny-throated Dotterel 155. Dunlin 40. Burchell's Courser 98. Wrybill 156. Broad-billed Sandpiper 41. Cream Coloured Courser 99. Magellanic Plover 157. Stilt Sandpiper 42. Northern Lapwing 100. Eurasian Woodcock 158. Buff-breasted Sandpiper 43. Blacksmith Lapwing 101. Jack Snipe 159. Spoon-billed Sandpiper 44. Long-toed Lapwing 102. Great Snipe 160. Ruff 45. Spur-winged Lapwing 103. African Snipe 161. Grey Phalarope 46. Sociable Lapwing 104. Common Snipe 162. Red-necked Phalarope 47. White-crowned Lapwing 105. Pin-tailed Snipe 163. Wilson's Phalarope 48. Black-winged Lapwing 106. South American Snipe 164. Least Seedsnipe 49. Senegal Lapwing 107. Short-billed Dowitcher 165. Common Buttonquail 50. Brown-chested Lapwing 108. Long-billed Dowitcher 166. Black-rumped Buttonquail 51. Crowned Lapwing 109. Asian Dowitcher 167. Hottentot Buttonquail © Wader Quest 2020. All rights reserved 10 ROLL OF HONOUR LIST OF OBSERVERS BY CONTINENT AND COUNTRY; SP = NUMBER OF SPECIES SEEN & OBS = NUMBER OF OBSERVERS FOR EACH COUNTRY. 52 COUNTRIES WERE REPRESENTED. AFRICA Amanda Walden Govind Yadav Botswana (14 sp: 1 obs) Dennis Walden Minla Yadav Elmarie Mostert Vincent Ward Indonesia (25 sp: 15 obs) Mozambique (19 sp: 2 obs) Johan van der Westhuizen Sitta Yusti Azizah Jordi Fernandez Dylan Weyer Zulqarnain Hadza Gary Rowan Neil Whyte Kiryono Namibia (30 sp: 2 obs) Salome Willemse Riska Kumalasari Mark Boorman Michael Wright Naufal Seta Kurnianta Curt Segall Uganda (32 sp: 1 obs) Andri Nugroho South Africa (48 sp: 53 Kenneth Tumusiime Aghnan Pramudihasan obs) Zambia (22 sp: 1 obs) Asman Adi Purwanto Brad Arthur Wouter Spijker Rahma Fanidia Rahayu Helen Badenhorst Zimbabwe (24 sp: 8obs) Desti Rohmawati Elmarie Brits James Ball Janu Sambada Digby Cyrus Jean-Michel Blake Adimas Oky Saputra, Simone Daniel Tracey Cuoto Arya Rayhana Sarmawi Gerhard van Deventer Asher Dare Untung Sarmawi Mike O'Donoghue Bev Morgan Dewi Sasmita Grant Egan Peter Solomon Japan (9 sp: 3 obs) Darren van Eyssen Piet Zwanikken Rob Edmunds Selena Flores Wendelin Zwanikken Tomomi Kawasumi Ashwell Glasson MIDDLE EAST Yoshiaki Suzuki Werner van Goethem Israel (18 sp: 2 obs) Malaysia (19 sp: 9 obs) Jan Griesel Shlomi Levi Shaiful Azhar Riëtte Griesel Jonathan Meyrav Mohd Nasir Azizan Lester van Groeningen ASIA Nur Munira Azman Wesley Gush Bhutan (3 sp: 3 obs) Elias Eunos Keith Hamilton Sherab Jamtsho Ng Jia Jie Michael Hancock Sonam Phuntsho Noraisah Majri Calvin Harris Om Nath Raika Mohd Safuan Salahudin Daniel Knipe China (1 sp: 1obs) Jason Teo Decklan Jordaan Terry Townshend Anuaruddin Usoff Hennie Jordaan India (38 sp: 26 obs) Myanmar (2 sp: 1 obs) Greg de Klerk Sumit Bari Brindley de Zylva Dean Louw Girish Chonkar Nepal (12 sp: 4 obs) Henk Nel Sudhir Garg Hemanta Dhakal Pat Nurse Gokulakrishnan Manshanta Ghimire Sue Oertli M. Karthikayan Sudarshan Parajuli Julian Parsons Amol Lopes Aman Sunar Niall Perrins Mustak Mepani Philippines (17 sp: 10 obs) Michael du Plessis Sameer Mirchandani Javica Faye Canag Ankia Pusey Vishal Mistry Michael Dela Cruz Dave Pusey Avinash Nanda Vanessa Joy Dael Dave Rimmer Madhumita Panigrahi Georgina Fernandez Nick Schaller Jignasha Patel Dante Oporto Johann Schoeman Pavan Patel Kevin Flores Jenny Sharland Jabili Rao Joe Merfurt Lama Peter Sharland Aditya Roy Crisanta Marlene Zach Simpson G. Shaktivel Rodriguez Jino Salvador Garret Skead Mayank Sharma Aldren Turcolas Estelle Smalberger Rakesh Sharma South Korea (2 sp: 1 obs) Kitty Steyn Nishant Nath Shukla Niall Moores Pieter Verster Ramesh Shenai Thailand (26 sp: 7 obs) Jandre Verster Pradyuman Sindha Krit Adirek Janelle Verster Arun Singh Peter Ericsson Pieter Very Naveen Singh P. Harnyuttanakorn Harsh Vardhan © Wader Quest 2020. All rights reserved 11 Andaman Kaosung Paula Carvalho Juan Carlos Aguirre Wich'yanan Milena Corbo Anthony Arce Limparungpatthanakij André Crevi Jorge Campos Sakkarin Sansuk Erley Cruz Jehudy Carballo Supawit Srethbhakdi Adilei Carvalho da Cunha Harold Diaz AUSTRALASIA/OCEANIA Lucas Dib Daniel Gutiérrez Australia (21 sp: 13 obs) Karina A. Ávila Esparza Gerald Pereira Hannah Carnegie Chris Farias Priscila Salazar Mike Clear Elisa Focante Honduras (16 sp: 7 obs) Rose Clear Layra Fonseca Joel Amaya Kate Davey Mar Franz Kevin Bartlett Andrea Dennett Francisco Inciarte. Kelvin Bodden K. Hadley Ana Paula Kordash Mayra Patricia Fajardo A. H. Hardy Vitor Rolf Laubé Elí Gonzalez Chris Hassell Stenio Leal Liliana Matute Mandujano Roz Jessop Bruno de Almeida Lima. Eduardo Rivera Peter Kyne Silvia Linhares Mexico (20 sp: 9 obs) Amanda Lilleyman Israel Mario Lope Adriana Hernández Grace Maglio Munirah Lopes Alvarez Sonia Sanchez Miguel Malta Magro Sori Gonzáles Bernal. New Zealand (9 sp: 6 obs) Daniela Maia Angela Marlene Soto Harry Boorman Gisele Milare Calderon Adam Colley Marcio Motta Mondaca Fernández John Dowding Bibiane Moura Daniel Galindo-Espinosa Ria Migaloo Paulo Moura Sinahí Martínez Adrian Reigen Bruno Neri Cervando Reyes Ruiz Sav Saville Raul Jose Vieira Neto Ruth Néder Suárez Vanuatu (14 sp: 7 obs) Bruno Oliani Brenda Guzmán Vázquez Kathy Nako José Augusto Oliveira Nicaragua (13 sp -1 obs) Aaron Nako Vilma Oliveira Salvadora Morales Philip Neill Samir Padua Paraguay (1 sp: 1 obs) Anicet Paulin Franciane Pereira Rob Clay Dominik Maximilián Denilda Littike Péres Panama (18 sp: 14 obs) Ramík Gil Ribeiro Littike Péres Beny Wilson Altamiranda Nadine Ramík Thales Pinheiro Yina Carter Busi Vasconcellos-Neill Allan Ramos Pedro L. Castillo-Caballero THE
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