To a man who has dedicated his life to conserving and understanding our natural world: Happy 98th Birthday! 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for your decades of devotion to our planet's wonders and wildlife.

A particularly smart clutch

Evolutionary biologists have shown that the colour variants of female cuckoos are based on ancient mutations' rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/Col…

#Spoonbill BRAVEHEART seriously explored the north of #Jutland , Denmark, after a few days foraging on meadows flooded with rainwater at #Tipperne during wettest April in Danish meteorological history. #Lapwing love it too, but black-tailed #godwits less so. Photos by Ole Thorup.

First Redshank chicks of the year, hopefully will be a bumper year as plenty of Redshank out on the marsh BTO Kent Breeding Bird Surveys

Birds as bioindicators of plastic pollution in terrestrial and freshwater environments: A 30-year review | sciencedirect.com/science/articl… | Environmental Pollution | #ornithology

5 new Curlew nests found today + oystercatcher 3 of which were fenced today. Added bonus of a flock of 65! Whimbrel on a local farm, no colour rings, absolute beauties

The threat of microplastics: Exploring pollution in coastal ecosystems and migratory shorebirds along the west coast of India | Marine Pollution Bulletin | sciencedirect.com/science/articl… | #ornithology #waders #shorebirds

It is a rare privilege to experience the departure of migratory #shorebirds in 1part of the world & be there as the birds arrive elsewhere. Tim Oortwijn of Wadden & Delta Centre had it. He witnessed departing bar-tailed #godwits Parc National du Banc d'Arguin - PNBA in mid April & arrivals on Texel ca week later.

🏞 Big news from Australia! Minister for Environment & Water allocates $17M (AUD) for EAAF016 (The Coorong, Lake Alexandrina & Lake Albert) habitat restoration! This funding will enhance infrastructure and breeding habitat. Learn more: buff.ly/3w6kxMo
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Convention on Wetlands

Thank you so much for your orders! Posters are heading to destinations on 5 continents! Any interest from Africa/Antarctica? My offer lives for 1 more week: if you retweet this post, I will put your name in a hat, and draw a winner, and paint one bird from the poster for you.

And we’re off 📣 First nest this season found and fenced at lunchtime - she’ll probably lay 2 more eggs to complete a clutch of 4 over the next 4 days

A favourite part of #SAVCurlews is fitting our breeding Curlew with GPS tags. These allow us incredibly personal insights into their daily lives, playing out onto our computer screens 👀 We get to see where their nests are, where they roost & where they winter #WorldCurlewDay

Straight to Iceland, ESCADINHAS?
For this #whimbrel , it would be a first. In spring 2022 it aborted northward migration across Atlantic Ocean north of Canaries. In 2023 it remained in Norway for the summer. Individual #shorebirds revealing their secrets: globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/species…

Curlews fitted with GPS tags provide our researchers with vital data about their breeding habits and locations.

Can you help us name this female tagged by our field team? Drop your suggestions below 👇

#WorldCurlewDay

What an honour, ARDEA_journal!
A #whimbrel and the intertidal #habitat of the #Bijagós features the cover of the issue with the #shorebird #diet description paper by Ana Coelho and co-authors.
#openaccess ardea.nou.nu/ardea_show_art…
Instituto da Biodiversidade e das Áreas Protegidas Aissa.Regalla PRCM #wader

Today René van Rossum watched the northward passage of 1600 bar-tailed #godwits (with male bias) along beach at Katwijk aan Zee, Netherlands. These belong to the vanguard troups arriving in the #WaddenSea in time for fueling & timely departure to the warming tundra. ©R.vanRossum

Steppe Whimbrel news for #WorldCurlewDay
Brilliant breeding record by Vitaly Polyakov from 2020 (first since 2007) now on iNat inaturalist.org/observations/1…
Maybe 20 pairs left (?) attempting to breed in old stubble fields but being hit by spring ploughing Curlew Action nicola crockford