Monitoring shorebird populations – our new program

With the start of the new year, a new long-term shorebird monitoring program will be launched with a couple of hundreds surveyors and at almost 150 different locations. The goal of this program might be ambitious but the shorebird community always up for the challenge just like we did it with the Global Shorebird Counts during World Shorebirds Day.

Oriental Pratincole (Glareola maldivarum), Photo by Aravind Venkatraman. All rights reserved.

The Eurasian Shorebird Survey starts in less than two weeks, aiming