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The WHSRN Executive Office is thrilled to announce that Owens Lake has been designated as a WHSRN site of International Importance — the 104th site in the Network, and the 49th site in the United [...]

The results are in from the January/February Central American Waterbird Census (CAWC)! Three sites proved to be especially important to Nearctic shorebirds, qualifying as potential new WHSRN [...]

This is the story of three individual Whimbrels: join us as we explore the places they go, the astounding distances they fly, and the people working across the hemisphere to understand and [...]

Last week, on April 21, WHSRN partners across the globe celebrated World Curlew Day – a grassroots initiative to raise awareness of the plight of curlews and to encourage activities to help them. [...]

Laguna Mar Chiquita is the largest lake in Argentina, the biggest saline lake in South America, and the 5th biggest saline lake in the world. A WHSRN site since 1989, the area supports 66% of all [...]

WHSRN Consultant Ornithologist Chris Sharpe and Sandra Giner of the Central University of Venezuela led a workshop titled Shorebird Conservation in Venezuela: introduction to census methods and [...]

WHSRN Conservation Specialist Diego Luna Quevedo led a new workshop: “Alliances and Actions for Shorebird Conservation and Habitat Management in Los Olivitos.” The workshop took place at WHSRN’s [...]

The WHSRN Hemispheric Council voted unanimously to expand the existing 64,000 acre (25,900 hectare) site to encompass the Cape Romain – Santee Delta Region, a WHSRN Site of International [...]

Curlews are iconic birds of wild, wet, evocative places – but of their 8 species, two are already assumed extinct and three are considered globally at risk of the same fate. Dr. Rob Clay, [...]

Local fieldworkers knew that estancia Medaland was an important site for migratory grassland shorebirds. At the end of 2017, a comprehensive survey revealed that the ranch meets the threshold to [...]