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What a Week! Highlights from the 50th IWSG Conference | 26-29 September, De Biotoop, Groningen, NL
7 October 2025
We are still buzzing from an unforgettable week in the Netherlands, where more than 250 wader enthusiasts from over 40 countries gathered for the 50th Annual IWSG Conference. Hosted in the beautifull city of Groningen, the meeting featured 72 talks, 48 posters, 4 workshops and 4 inspiring plenary lectures – all fuelled by endless coffee, stroopwafels and passionate discussions about shorebirds.   Celebrating Excellence – Conference Prizes A huge congratulations to this year’s Student
IWSG 2025 Competition for Shorebird Tracking Studies | Global Messenger, Druid & Lotek
16 September 2025
Dear IWSG Conference delegates, The 2025 Groningen, Netherlands conference is coming soon!!  and we are delighted to announce the IWSG 2025 Competition for Shorebird Tracking Studies, supported this year by Global Messenger, Druid, and Lotek. Thanks to the generous contributions of our partners, participants have the chance to win the following tracking devices for their projects: Global Messenger – 5 GPS-4G/GSM tracking devices Druid – 6 Mini-Ubilink satellite tags (5–6 g) Lotek – 2
Spotlight: Tech to Detect Birds | Wader Study 132(2)
24 July 2025
Humans have long used technology to augment our senses when studying birds. Binoculars and telescopes allow us to see farther than our eyes alone can, cameras mounted on drones allow us to fly where the birds do, microphones allow us to capture vocalizations and machine learning lets us identify bird species from these tiny snippets of sound. This issue of Wader Study, contains two papers highlighting the use of technology to enhance human ability to detect birds. Tim Oortwijn and colleagues

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  • The International Wader Study Group (IWSG) brings together everyone who has a passion for waders (shorebirds), the habitats they use and their conservation.
  • Members include research scientists, citizen scientists and conservation practitioners from all around the world. Membership is open to all.
  • Details on our aims and objectives can be found here.