Nature News Feature: “What’s killing the world’s shorebirds?”
According to the The State of North America’s Birds 2016 report “Shorebird populations have shrunk by 70% across North America since 1973, and the species that breed in the Arctic are among the hardest hit”. Drawing on this, Margaret Munro explores in a Nature News Feature the diverse and widespread threats that shorebirds encounter along their path, with a particular focus, among other things, to the recent research works conducted on Red knot and how conditions in the Arctic are altering breeding and survival of shorebirds:
News Feature “What’s killing the world’s shorebirds?” published in Nature: Nature 541,16–20 (05 January 2017) doi:10.1038/541016a
Photo: Waders in flight, Delaware Bay ©Simon Gillings