Spotlight: Redshanks overcoming mountains | Wader Study 133(2)
25 September 2026
by Deborah Buehler originally published in Wader Study 133(2) Imagine that you are a small bird who mainly lives on the shore. You weigh about as much as a standard deck of playing cards. While it is cold in the Northern Hemisphere, you are enjoying the winter in the coastal wetlands, mudflats, and marshes of southern Bangladesh. The temperature is warm, and, on the beach at sea level, there is plenty of oxygen to breathe. You are comfortable, but you feel the urge to get to your breeding
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