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Stilt 63-64 – October 2013 Table of Contents The JournalStilt for the East Asian-Australasian Flyway AWSG Number 63-64 • October 2013 Australasian Wader Studies Group STATE CONSERVATION OFFICERS QUEENSLAND Joyce Harding, PO Box 1530, Cleveland Qld 4163. Email: [email protected] Sandra Harding, 336 Prout Road, Burbank QLD 4156 Email: [email protected] NEW SOUTH WALES Joan Dawes Ph: 02 9664 2546 Email: [email protected] TASMANIA Stilt Eric Woehler (South Tas), 37 Parliament St, Sandy Bay Tas ISSN 0726-1888 7005. Ph: (03) 6223 1980 Email: [email protected] Ralph Cooper (North Tas) 7 Beach Rd, Legana Tas 7277. © AWSG Ph: (03) 6330 1255 Email: [email protected] MISSION STATEMENT To ensure the future of waders and their habitats in Australia SOUTH AUSTRALIA through research and conservation programmes, and to Paul Wainwright, PO Box 255, Balhannah SA 5242 encourage and assist similar programmes in the rest of the Ph: 0429 678 475 Email: [email protected] East Asian–Australasian Flyway. VICTORIA OBJECTIVES Doris Graham, 14 Falconer St, Fitzroy Vic 3068. • To monitor wader populations through a programme of Ph (03): 9482 2112 Email: [email protected] counting and banding in order to collect data on WESTERN AUSTRALIA changes on a local, national and international basis. Bill Rutherford (s. WA – cutoff Onslow), 199 Daglish St, • To study the migrations of waders through a Wembly, Perth 6014. Email: [email protected] programme of counting, banding, colour flagging and collection of biometric data. Chris Hassell (n. WA – cutoff Onslow), Global Flyway Network • To instigate and encourage other scientific studies of PO Box 3089, Broome, WA 6725. Ph: (08) 9192 8585 waders such as feeding and breeding studies. or 0408 954 655 Email: [email protected] • To communicate the results of these studies to a wide INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES audience through Stilt, the Tattler, other journals, the NEW ZEALAND internet, the media, conferences and lectures. North Island: • To formulate and promote policies for the conservation Adrian Riegen, 213 Forest Hill Rd, Waiatarua, Auckland 0612, of waders and their habitat, and to make available New Zealand. Ph: (09) 814 9741 Email: [email protected] information to local and national governmental conservation bodies and other organisations to South Island: encourage and assist them in pursuing this objective. Rob Schuckard, 4351 Croisilles French Pass Rd RD3, French • To encourage and promote the involvement of a large Pass 7139, New Zealand. Ph: 35765371 band of amateurs, as well as professionals, to achieve Email: [email protected] these objectives. ASIA Doug Watkins, Manager Wetlands International – Oceania, PO OFFICE BEARERS Box 4573, Kingston ACT 2604 AUSTRALIA. Chair: Alison Russell-French, PO Box 1045 Ph: +61 2 6260 8341. Canberra ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Vice Chairman: Phil Straw, P.O. Box 2006, Rockdale Delivery OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS Centre NSW 2216, AUSTRALIA. Maureen Christie, Jon Coleman, Ken Gosbell, Chris Hassell, Ph and fax: (02) 9597 7765. Roz Jessop, Penny Johns, Clive Minton, Adrian Riegen, Email: [email protected] Paul Wainwright and Doug Watkins. Chair of Research Committee: Danny Rogers, 340 Ninks Rd, St Andrews Vic 3761, AUSTRALIA. Ph: (03) 9710 1345. MEMBERSHIP OF THE AUSTRALASIAN WADER Email: [email protected] STUDIES GROUP Editor: Birgita Hansen, University of Ballarat (Mt Helen), PO Membership of the AWSG is open to anyone interested in the Box 663, Ballarat, Vic 3353, AUSTRALIA. Ph: (03) 5327 conservation and research of waders (shorebirds) in the East 9952 Asian–Australasian Flyway. Members receive the twice yearly Email: [email protected] bulletin Stilt, and the quarterly newsletter Tattler. Please direct Secretary: John Renowden, 64 Wilson St, Princes Hill Vic all membership enquiries to the Membership Manager at 3054, AUSTRALIA. Ph: (03) 9380 5759 BirdLife Australia, Suite 2-05, 60 Leicester St, Carlton Vic Email: [email protected] 3053, AUSTRALIA. Treasurer: Arthur Keates, PO Box 1483, Carindale Qld 4152, Ph: 1300 730 075, fax: (03) 9347 9323. AUSTRALIA. Ph: 0410 960 955. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Annual Subscriptions: Australia & New Zealand A$40.00 Conservation Officer: Joan Dawes, 28 Ritchard Avenue, Overseas A$45.00 Coogee, NSW 2034, AUSTRALIA. Ph: (02) 9664 2546 Institutions A$50.00 Email: [email protected] Published in November 2013 Stilt 63 - 64 (2013) EDITORIAL first if they are uncertain about the appropriateness of their material for publication. Welcome to the combined the issue of Stilt 63 and 64. I would like to start by taking the opportunity to I am pleased to announce a major change to the Stilt thank Andrew Dunn, who retired from the position of editorial team, which will greatly benefit the journal. production editor of Stilt early in 2013. He commenced This is the formation of an editorial board, which will be in this role in April 1996, along with the new editor responsible for various functions from coordinating Mike Weston. In the 17 plus years that have elapsed reviews, providing advice in relation to specific since then, he has presided over the production of contributions, and presiding over dispute resolutions and increasingly better quality issues of Stilt and has helped other publication issues. I welcome Danny Rogers raise the profile of the journal to that of a widely (Arthur Rylah Insitute for Environmental Research), recognised repository for the publication of scientific Marcel Klaassen (Deakin University), Phil Battley material on waders. We all thank him heartily for his (Massey University) and Zhijun Ma (Fudan University). huge contribution over nearly two decades. I would also like to welcome Nancy Van Nieuwenhove, This issue contains updates on activities and data from who has taken over as the new production editor for Stilt. New South Wales and Western Australia, as well as She joins myself, Yaara Rotman and the editorial board several contributions from Indonesia where our members to make a sound editorial team. We have also counterparts have been busy again with continued wader been greatly assisted by Margaret Cameron, Doris monitoring. We also have several contributions on our Graham and Linda Patrick with proof reading. Thanks resident species, which makes a interesting change to the also to the many reviewers that have helped with usual migratory wader reports. The first is from Stuart improving manuscripts for publishing. Collard and his colleagues at the South Australian Department for Environment and Natural Resources, I remind readers that Stilt now includes Instructions to who report on the Banded Stilt breeding event at Lake Authors, which can be found at the end of this issue. Torrens in 2010. The second is brought to us by Mike Please familiarise yourselves with this document if you Newman, reporting on his intensive observations of are planning to submit an article for publication brood capture by Australian Pied Oystercatchers in Tasmania. The third is thanks to Michael Murphy’s The AWSG committee held its Annual General Meeting survey work in the Pillaga Forest in northern NSW. This on 9 October at Birdlife Australia's Head Office in issue also includes a review of the Action Plan for Melbourne. Following the editorial is a report from the Australian Birds by Graham Fulton. The latest new chair, Alison Russell-French, which summarises the percentage juvenile paper plus the last NWA expedition major activities of the AWSG since her commencement report by Clive Minton and colleagues are also included. and highlights strategic directions for the AWSG. The annual Treasurer’s report follows. For those readers wondering why Stilt 63 never arrived in the post, unfortunately insufficient contributions were I hope you enjoy this issue of Stilt and I am looking received in time to produce a full issue. I was very forward to publishing the next one, which promises more interesting contributions from around the flyway. disappointed about this and wish to avoid this happening again in the future. I again encourage all readers to send in their contributions, whether they are working on a full Birgita Hansen research article or wish to provide a short report on their Editor group’s activities. Readers are welcome to contact me 1 Stilt 63 - 64 (2013): 2-4 NEWS FROM THE CHAIR and some funding was also obtained from Western Australian Marine Science Institution to support analysis This is my first report since becoming Chair of the and publication of monitoring efforts. Owing to very AWSG in October 2012. I would like to first of all efficient budget management, there will be carry-over extend my appreciation on behalf of AWSG to the funds to cover the costs of summer surveys in November previous Chair Dave Milton for his support and and December 2013. We are particularly fortunate to leadership of AWSG over the period of his tenure as have a very dedicated team (including Chris Hassell, Chair. Adrian Boyle and George Swann) that has offered to The plight of waterbirds across the Flyway undertake the counts for free this year. However, this continues to be one of major concern with ongoing highlights the ongoing issues surrounding funds that are declines in populations. Much of this is the result of the needed for this critical project and other AWSG loss of staging sites in the Flyway, particularly in the activities. I shall return to that issue later in this report. Yellow Sea, with ongoing major reclamation and development of tidal flats. This was highlighted (again) Shorebirds 2020 by David Melville at the recent Meeting of the Flyway Partners in June 2013 and at the International Wader The Population Monitoring Program has been nurtured Study Group meeting in October 2013. He presented a by AWSG for almost 35 years. It is through the database report on a survey he had undertaken with Chinese that we are able to study the trends in the decline of researchers of many important areas of the Chinese shorebird species in Australia.
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