@GrahamFAppleton

Writer & life-long birdwatcher. Formerly Director of Communications for BTO. #WaderTales blogs about #waders #shorebirds #ornithology

 Norfolk
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Joined January 2012
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Oct 3
Good news! RSPB in Norfolk will receive 3 more years of money for Ringed Plover protection work. Distributions of plovers and people are predictable - which helps when you're trying to make sure that there is space for both! Background: wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
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Should researchers be handling wader chicks? Important paper about conservation and disturbance by Camilo Carneiro, summarised in WaderTales blog #140: wadertales.wordpress.com/202… 🎂2⃣ #ornithology #waders #shorebirds
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If you have ever reported a colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit, this blog was written for you! wadertales.wordpress.com/201… Updated Cley-focused blog 🎂 #ornithology #Norfolk
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Three of these six wader species are red-listed in the UK. Which ones? Answers in this blog about the eleven wader species on the list and how they 'earned' their places: wadertales.wordpress.com/202… 🎂4️⃣ #ornithology #waders #shorebirds
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Oct 4
Migration of juvenile Sanderlings is not strategic - things just happen. wadertales.wordpress.com/201… 🎂7️⃣ #ornithology #waders #shorebirds
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Should researchers be handling wader chicks? Important paper about conservation and disturbance by Camilo Carneiro, summarised in WaderTales blog #140: wadertales.wordpress.com/202… 🎂2⃣ #ornithology #waders #shorebirds
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Migration of juvenile Sanderlings is not strategic - things just happen. wadertales.wordpress.com/201… 🎂7️⃣ #ornithology #waders #shorebirds
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Three of these six wader species are red-listed in the UK. Which ones? Answers in this blog about the eleven wader species on the list and how they 'earned' their places: wadertales.wordpress.com/202… 🎂4️⃣ #ornithology #waders #shorebirds
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Good news! RSPB in Norfolk will receive 3 more years of money for Ringed Plover protection work. Distributions of plovers and people are predictable - which helps when you're trying to make sure that there is space for both! Background: wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
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Early spring arrival in Iceland creates opportunities to adapt to breeding conditions - something that may pay dividends in a changing climate. wadertales.wordpress.com/202… Blog about paper by Josh Nightingale in IBIS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #ornithology
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Icelandic Oystercatcher migration - a thread summarising eleven years of research by Verónica Méndez et al. The questions - and a call for colour-ring sightings: wadertales.wordpress.com/201… Published OTD in 2015. 🎂 #ornithology #waders #shorebirds 1/6
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Oystercatcher pairs can be both resident, both migrant or mixed. Migratory behaviour must affect timing of nesting, surely? So what happens when partners are on different schedules? wadertales.wordpress.com/202… #migration 5/6
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The latest Oystercatcher WaderTales blog is a call for colour-ring sightings. Verónica and colleagues are satellite-tracking juveniles but they need to know where their colour-ringed parents spend the winter. Read about the earliest findings: wadertales.wordpress.com/202… #birds
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Woodcock shooting season starts today in most of the UK (Scotland was 1 Sep). Continental birds have not arrived yet so any shot birds will be red-listed British breeders. GWCT suggests waiting until 1 December before targeting Woodcock. More here: wadertales.wordpress.com/201…
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Early spring arrival in Iceland creates opportunities to adapt to breeding conditions - something that may pay dividends in a changing climate. wadertales.wordpress.com/202… Blog about paper by Josh Nightingale in IBIS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #ornithology
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🎂 This ten-year old blog about breeding #Whimbrel may be of interest to researchers and volunteers involved in #Curlew conservation. wadertales.wordpress.com/201… #ornithology
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Three 'wader species from the east' for which numbers peak in August and September. If you're seeing juvenile Curlew Sandpipers, look out for Little Stints too! Blog about wader migration: wadertales.wordpress.com/201… @BirdTrack graphic from 2019 #ornithology
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