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Almost all Western Sandpipers in the world stop at the Fraser River Estuary at some point in their life. The mudflats of Roberts Bank are at the center of this crucial stopover site, and they are [...]

Cargill Salt Ponds Bonaire becomes WHSRN's first site in the Dutch Caribbean.

Salina Solar Los Olivitos becomes the 102nd WHSRN site and the first site in Venezuela, adding a new country to the Network.

At the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Group meeting in November 2017 in Paracas, Peru, staff of the WHSRN Executive Office helped lead two symposia about the role of community engagement, good [...]

Comprehensive shorebird surveys are a great tool for identifying important shorebird sites, and citizen science is a fantastic tool for carrying out such ambitious monitoring efforts! The [...]

Annual aerial surveys in Tierra del Fuego revealed record low numbers of Calidris canutus rufa: only 9,840 birds.

At the end of January, birds were spotted in the Strait of Magellan with signs of oil on their feathers. WHSRN partner Centro Bahía Lomas worked with expert ornithologist Ricardo Matus to inspect [...]

Bolivar Flats has been a WHSRN site of International Importance for a quarter century!

Join WHSRN and Ramsar next week to celebrate World Wetlands Day, a chance to raise global awareness about the value of wetlands for humanity, for the planet, and of course, for shorebirds. This [...]

Post-breeding migration and connectivity of Red Knots in the Western Atlantic reveals the importance of the Georgia Coast for southbound Red Knots, and provides the first ever population [...]