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Fantastic news - the #TagusAirport is finally stopped. A rare but incredibly important win for conservation!

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.

Busy little #Godwits this #BiodiversityDay! You saw them hatching. They spent 4-5 days in a warm nursery growing & mastering those enormous feet! Then it's time for outside. As they strengthen & grow, their space grows with them. Then they get released. #bepartoftheplan

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…

1/6 'Applications of @ProjectGodwit early-life effects analysis results to future translocation work for black-tailed godwit'. Headstarting is increasingly used for wader conservation; re translocation, fledglings are released at a different site to their source #BOUsci24 #SESH4

2/6 Black-tailed godwits are Red-listed in the UK: bto.org/sites/default/…. The limosa subspecies mostly breeds in the Fens in the east of England - see left-hand figure. Headstarting was proposed to bolster Ouse Washes thro' translocation from Nene Washes #BOUsci24 #SESH4

3/6 Project Godwit [projectgodwit.org.uk] was an EU LIFE-funded partnership between RSPB and WWT (see funders on slides). The majority of the >200 released birds were translocated between the Washes. Some eggs were rescued from flooding 🌊 #BOUsci24 #SESH4

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

6/6 More on 'Godwit Futures' here: wwt.org.uk/news-and-stori… Stay tuned re black-tailed godwit headstarting and translocation - exciting things happening behind the scenes! 🤫 A huge thank you to all involved (please see below, plus my co-authors on slide 1) 👏👏 #BOUsci24 #SESH4

There's a Black-tailed Godwit at the top of our Christmas tree! (carved by Gunnar Tómasson). And Black-tailed Godwit is still the top WaderTales species, with 26 blogs, three of which were published this year: wadertales.wordpress.com/about/ #ornithology

Waiting for your date to turn up? Is she dead or late? Synchrony in arrival times in Black-tailed Godwits: wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/bla… Blog from 9 Feb 2017 🎂8️⃣ #ornithology

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