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Winners of the 2020 IWSG Small Grant Winners announced | The IWSG Small Grant Committee
10 June 2021
This year, the IWSG Small Grant Committee are very delighted to support two projects targeting breeding biology and requirements of lesser known and studied species and these studies will definitely add to new knowledge: Hari Basnet: Breeding Biology of Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola in Lamtang National Park, Nepal Sandra Giner & Virginia Sanz: Identification of potential WHSRN sites for the protection of breeding areas of two plovers of conservation concern (C. wilsonia and C. nivosus) in
Position advert: International Strategic Planner | Life project “Conservation of wet grassland breeding bird habitats in the Atlantic Region”
10 May 2021
The Hannover-Hildesheim office of the Lower Saxony for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation Agency (NLWKN) currently seeking for an "International Strategic Planner (m/f/d) - Nature Conservation" at the Hannover-Hildesheim office of the NLWKN. This fulltime employment, as temporary contract for 5 years, will focus on the processing and coordination of the Integrated LIFE-Project "Conservation of wet grassland breeding bird habitats in the Atlantic Region" (IP LIFE
Spotlight: Citizen Science and Rusty Collars in Ruffs
22 April 2021
by Deborah Buehler originally published in Wader Study 128(1) Some birds love their fashion. Even waders – known for more practical, muted colours and ‘outfits’ that camouflage – have species amongst them that love to show off their plumage. Ruffs Calidris pugnax have famously extravagant plumage. They’re even named for the typical male’s feathery neck ruffle resembling the exaggerated ruffs fashionable from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries. In this issue of Wader

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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.
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