Welcome to the International Wader Study Group
The International Wader Study Group is an organisation of enthusiastic professionals and amateurs researching waders, also called shorebirds. The involvement of the members of the IWSG in wader research ranges from observing waders in ones own ‘backyard’ to extensive, long-term studies aiming at a deeper understanding of spectacular wader phenomena like long-distance migration, living in extreme environments and variable reproductive strategies. Read more about us here...
The IWSG won the 2012 AEWA Waterbird Conservation Award!
We are delighted to inform you that IWSG is the winner of the 2012 AEWA Waterbird Conservation Award. The collective activity of the IWSG has been highly supportive of the development of flyway scale waterbird conservation. Its development of strategic approaches to flyway conservation in the 1990s influenced the development of the Agreement and its Action Plan. Since then, the IWSG has provided key data for instance for the Wader Atlas, a milestone publication, supported by AEWA, on numbers, distribution and movements of these waterbirds. The IWSG has strengthened flyway-scale links throughout the AEWA region and also to North America and eastern Asia, through its annual conferences, workshops and joint research projects.
For more details see the AEWA press release.
The International Wader Study Group is looking for volunteer News and Notes Reporters
Be aware of fraud
Following the successful IWSG Conference in Strathpeffer, Scotland, in late September 2011, the Executive Committee of the International Wader Study Group have learned that some of the attendees have been approached by e-mail, being invited to publish in a journal called Journal of Life Sciences, from David Publishing.
The publisher of this journal is David Publishing, and is believed to be part of a so called "bait-and-switch" publishing fraud. Basically, it is set up to invite people to publish, flattering the author with praise, and eventually charging large sums of money for "services" provided.
The International Sociological Association have warned their members of a similar fraudulent approach to participants of their 2010 conference, as have organisers of the 4th Nordic Geographers Meeting of this year.
The International Wader Study Group is in no way connected to Journal of Life Sciences or David Publishing.
The Wader Study Group Bulletin, on the other hand, is a recognised, honest journal. Peer-reviewed, and with no hidden costs. Recently accepted into Scopus. THE WSG Bulletin is ideal publishing your wader (shorebird) related papers, reaching an audience virtually World Wide.
At this link, a feature from news website Weekly Trust, giving an account of the fraud.
Red Knot in danger
Reclamation projects in Bohai Bay threatens two subspecies of Red Knots (Calidris canutus piersmai and C. c. rogersi)! Read more about this in articles recently published in Wingspan, Emu and Bird Conservation International
Sanderling marathon
A sanderling, with a departure weight of just over 100g, has flown the 6,000km from Norway to Ghana in less than five days. The bird was photographed on 11 August 2009 in chilly, damp South Norway. On 16 August a Ghanaian biologist spotted him under the coconut palms on Esiama beach. The sanderling was recognized by the coloured rings on its legs. Biologists from the University of Groningen and the University of Ghana in Accra gave the birds coloured leg rings to learn more about how they live and their survival chances. You can read more about this story here and about the IWSG Sanderling Project here
Report of our meeting in Scotland
This year, the Highland Ringing Group (HRG) hosted the conference between 23 and 27 September 2011 in Strathpeffer, 20 km northwest of Inverness, Scotland.
Read more here
Membership
Not yet paid your membership fee for 2011 or want to renew for 2012? You can now pay your annual subscription fee online. For more info, click here
