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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
IWSG Small Grant Winner announced | The IWSG Small Grant Committee
19 June 2025
We are happy to announce the latest winner of the IWSG Small Projects Grant, Juan Andres Milicich. In a very strong field of applications, we thought thi stood out. His project “Unveiling Migration Patterns: A First Insight into the Breeding and Wintering Movements of the Andean Lapwing Vanellus resplendens in Northern Argentina” aims to provide an initial description of several life history strategies of Andean Lapwing, a poorly known shorebird distributed along the Andes of South America.
Save the date! 2025 IWSG conference registration and abstract submissions open 15 May
3 April 2025
The 2025 IWSG annual conference will be taking place from 26-29 September in Groningen, netherlands. Registration and abstract submissions will open on 15 May. Deadline to submit an abstract & registration is 1 July. There is a limit to the number of participants so don't miss to register asap! Visit the website to find out more about the upcoming conference:   Featured image: Colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit, The Netherlands (© Simon Gillings).

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