Ryan Burrell

Nov weekend success! Our team managed over 290 resightings of over 130 individual Curlews, Turnstone and Bar-tailed Godwits. This included birds marked by WWRG in the #WashNNR and by projects elsewhere. Fantastically, this included 17 headstarted Curlews (yellow-leg flags)!

We are at the @CurlewLIFE Conference this week with 100+ delegates from 30+ organisations and projects. What an opportunity to share knowledge and experiences! We need policymakers to take the lessons from this project and others, support #Curlew for the long-term and at scale.

@TwrchIwrch @m0xdx @curlewcalls @curlewrecovery @WashWader @Sammers_Lee Great to be concerned for welfare Richard. Colour-marks are used extensively across the globe to uniquely identify waders. In the UK their deployment is licensed by the BTO on behalf of the statutory agencies. There is no evidence of negative effects in Curlew.

@m0xdx @curlewcalls @curlewrecovery @WashWader @Sammers_Lee @RyanABurrell Those tags must surely cause some degree of discomfort.

Colour ringed Curlew at Heacham yesterday @curlewrecovery @curlewcalls @WashWader @Sammers_Lee @RyanABurrell

@m0xdx @curlewrecovery @curlewcalls @WashWader @Sammers_Lee Encase you do not know already this will be a headstarted bird released by the East of England Curlew Recovery Project curlewrecoveryproject.co.uk

Curlew are far from recovery but brilliant work is happening. For wader recovery, we urgently require long-term large-scale funding to maintain and restore habitats, manage predation and provide consistent advisors to work with land managers, monitor success and adapt practice

@Cotswold_Sparky @mikepnature @WildOxfordshire @curlewrecovery Excellent work Keith! Thank you for all you've done this season!

My last nest completed today. 3 failures in Glos (1 fenced) 3 success in Oxon (3 fenced) Now for the hard fledging bit. #curlew @mikepnature @RyanABurrell @Ewing_birds really appreciate @WildOxfordshire @curlewrecovery for giving me the chance to work for them this season👍

The water has FINALLY dropped enough to access our best redshank site, with the redshank champion himself @RupertBrewer2! The nests have a 2 inch layer of dry grass in them to keep the eggs nice and dry, what a fantastic species! #conservation

Reducing predation is crucial for Curlew recovery. Learning how nest survival and predator identity varies between areas is important for getting interventions right. The images show a stoat predating a Curlew nest monitored this season by @_BTO for the CST project

OUR NEW PAPER - 50 yrs of monitoring cereal invertebrates in the Sussex Downs. 37% decline in overall invertebrate abundance but the situation is complex. Increases for 16% of non-overlapping taxa at the order or family level, and no change for 37%. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ic…

@Carmond_K @GrahamFAppleton Thanks Kristofer. I'll keep an eye out for the PM :-)

@Carmond_K @GrahamFAppleton Hi Kristofer. Excellent work! I'm the project officer for DCWRG and I can say that if you didn't get a response then the sightings were not received. I'll happily follow this up if you can drop me a private message with your email and the sighting information :-)

@miguelbtg Miguel - where has it ended up? The end of the track looks fairly close to where Lizzie and I both live! Pm me a zoomed in map :-)

Our GPS-tagged Northern Lapwings continue to disperse further south and west. "Rukho2", which breeds up north in Oulu, Finland, just flew across the north sea, crossing right through London city centre, at 2.2 km high in altitude! I wonder if it managed to do some sightseeing :)

Massive congratulations to @Javaraptor ! I had no doubt that you would smash it! Fingers crossed for my own in a few months :-)

Excited to announce the hatching 🐣 of @WaderStudy's latest #ornithology Project, in partnership with @MovebankTeam- the Global Wader Tracking Data Project (GWTDP)! waderstudygroup.org/projects/globa… globalwader.org But - what is it? Why do we need it? How does it work? 🧵 1/9

A brilliant new pilot by @SianKTaylor! Finding the culprits for the large number of unknowns often present in wader nest and chick predation studies is so valuable for our knowledge, management and policy #ornithology #IWSG2023

@cjm20192 Excellent! Great work @RogerMGwriter!

What a brilliant way to introduce lapwing anti-predator behaviour! Well done and thanks for a great talk @dillenseger_g #IWSG2023

@alexnicolharper @WaderStudy @projectgodwit @EULIFE_news @KaneBrides Great talk Alex!

I was apparently very excited to present at my first @WaderStudy conference #IWSG2023! 😅 huge thanks to my collaborators (too many for 140 characters!), and @projectgodwit & Saving The Spoon-billed Sandpiper - especially @EULIFE_news for funding my attendance 🙏 📸 @KaneBrides

@KaneBrides @WaderStudy @ScottoftheMarsh Thanks Kane :-)

Excellent live tweeting over at @WaderStudy for #IWSG2023, nice one @ScottoftheMarsh! Here's @RyanABurrell's take-home message, absolutely 💯%!