Salt Plains Upgrades WHSRN Status due to Importance for Breeding Snowy Plovers
On its 25th anniversary as a WHSRN site, Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge has upgraded to a Site of International Importance.
Shorebird monitoring at the Gulf of Fonseca: a tri-national approach
The results are in from the second trinational shorebird survey in the Gulf of Fonseca. During this second survey, carried out in May 2018, a total of 6,055 individuals representing 30 species [...]
The Central American Waterbird Census; an important tool for shorebird monitoring in Central America
The WHSRN Executive Office coordinates the Central American Waterbird Census (CAWC), a citizen-science initiative to monitor shorebirds and waterbirds in all seven countries of Central America. [...]
Help us unravel a mystery: Where do Eastern Willet spend the winter?
Do Willets spend the winter at your WHSRN site? Can you help identify Willet photos to subspecies? Click here to find out how you can participate in this project. We need your help to find [...]
The International Shorebird Survey reports shorebirds arriving at WHSRN sites in South America!
ISS data are crucial to documenting wide-scale population trends, informing management decisions, monitoring designated WHSRN sites and supporting the nomination of new ones. Migration season is [...]
Priority Shorebird Sites – and Stewards – in Venezuela
Last year, WHSRN helped identify Venezuela's most important sites for shorebirds. But what has to happen for those sites to become WHSRN reserves? This March, WHSRN taught a course to engage [...]
Promising News of the Red Knot Wintering Population
This January, a team conducted aerial surveys of the rufa Red Knot population wintering in Tierra del Fuego. They counted 15% more individuals than were recorded at the same time last year. The [...]
