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This year’s Central American Waterbird Census counted more waterbirds than any year since the census began in 2011 – and almost half were Nearctic shorebirds!

Laura was honored for her work to engage the Delaware Bay community in the conservation of shorebirds and horseshoe crabs, through her coordination of the reTURN the Favor effort.

The inaugural class of the new Coastal Solutions Fellows Program gathered at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for their first retreat, including a Good Governance workshop by WHSRN's Diego Luna Quevedo.

In January 2019, aerial surveys were successfully conducted of the population of rufa Red Knot Calidris canutus wintering in Tierra del Fuego, South America. This year’s surveys revealed a total [...]

The WHSRN Executive Office is delighted to announce that Salvadora Morales has joined the WHSRN team as a Shorebird Conservation Specialist!

In spring 2018, a bay-wide survey revealed that more than 500,000 shorebirds used Humboldt Bay during spring migration alone – a number five times greater than was previously estimated almost a [...]

On its 25th anniversary as a WHSRN site, Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge has upgraded to a Site of International Importance.

Did you know that Saskatchewan's saline lakes provide habitat for tens of thousands of migratory shorebirds?

This story, by WHSRN partner David Bradley and WHSRN Conservation Specialist Diego Luna Quevedo, was originally published in the November 2018 issue of Green Marine Magazine.

WHSRN's newest site was designated as a site of Regional Importance for supporting more than 20,000 shorebirds per year.