
Project Godwit
@projectgodwit
Project Godwit is a partnership between RSPB & WWT with major funding from the EU LIFE Programme, HSBC, Leica, Natural England and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Black-tailed godwits are returning to breed WWT Welney and other wetland sites around the Fens. If you spot birds with leg rings, look out for individuals with a lime coloured E as one of the rings. These were headstarted by Project Godwit and all sightings gratefully received.



just taken this shot from Welches Dam - to confirm the #ousewashes is out of action this summer for nesting birds and cattle Cambs Bird Club


A brood of Black-tailed Godwit we ringed WWT Welney this morning. Their parents were both head started as part of @ProjectGodwit 💫


Nice selection of waders at RSPB Ouse Washes this afternoon, including 3 headstarted juv Blackwit from WWT Welney Godwit Futures project and a vocal Wood Sandpiper. Hopefully more to come... Cambs Bird Club


Advances in Black-tailed Godwit conservation research over the last 15 years: What have we learned and what do we need to know? by Verhoeven et al. waderstudygroup.org/article/18427/ #waders #shorebirds #ornithology José A. Alves Jen Gill (she/her) Jen Smart (she/her) Lynda Donaldson Miguel Silva-Monteiro


A one-stop shop for black-tailed godwit research! Resulting from Project Godwit workshop during #IWSG2022. Very clearly stating the research gaps that have been addressed since 2007, and which ones remain for us to fill. 👀👇

🐣 Headstarting black-tailed godwits in the UK to give them a helping hand as part of Project Godwit - how did it go?? 📢 The results of the trial are reported and discussed in our new paper in Animal Conservation: tinyurl.com/3dxp5pyn #wader #translocation #ornithology
Successfully headstarting Black-tailed Godwits. NEW analysis by Project Godwit. #WaderTales Blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/09/26/how… Paper in Animal Conservation by Lynda Donaldson et al: tinyurl.com/3dxp5pyn #ornithology


Some very interesting MSc project opportunities available at RSPB Science for 2024/25 - can recommend working with @ProjectGodwit colleagues: @piedflynet on 'Determinants of godwit re-nesting' or Chris Batey on 'Black-tailed godwit egg laying cues' 😊 community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/scie…




4/6 See Lynda Donaldson et al. (2024) for the project's outcomes, and headstarts' demographic rates relative to wild-reared birds: …lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Early-life effects analyses have been conducted to ID correlates of success (Nicol-Harper et al., in prep.) #BOUsci24 #SESH4


5/6 projectgodwit.org.uk/wp-content/upl… ⬅️ last year's Action Plan includes a target for the 2033 English breeding population to number 80 pairs across 4+ sites. Natural England-funded 'Godwit Futures' project supports translocations 🔜 opportunity for adaptive management #BOUsci24 #SESH4



E-bird Bl.t.#godwit in a wet-grasland area near Allingawier, Friesland, Nths. Must be on it's way to the Ouse and Nene Washes in the head-starting area's WWT Welney Wader Study Global Flyway Network Wader Quest RSPB Science Graham Appleton