A proposal to build a windfarm in wetlands used by migratory shorebirds off north-west Tasmania has been approved by the state’s environmental regulator on the condition that it shuts down for several months of the year. The Tasmanian Environment Protection Authority has given renewables company ACEN the green light to build up to 122 turbines […]
Tag: Eastern Curlew
‘The unsung heroes of Australian fauna’: how quolls can help us understand the modern world
All Harry Saddler really wanted to do was to see a quoll in the wild. It was November 2019, and the Melbourne-based author was enjoying a surprise publishing success: his small book, The Eastern Curlew, a telling of the extraordinary migration of Australia’s largest shorebird, had sold through its hardcover print run, opening a new […]
New study quantifies impact of hunting on migratory shorebird populations
Habitat loss and climate change are often blamed for the decreasing numbers of migratory shorebirds in a major flyway in the Asia-Pacific region in recent years. But it might be time to add another likely suspect: hunting. More than 50 million waterbirds from more than 250 different populations use the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF), a […]
Hunters kill migrating birds on their 10,000km journey to Australia
IT IS LOW TIDE at the end of the wet season in Broome, Western Australia. Shorebirds feeding voraciously on worms and clams suddenly get restless. Chattering loudly they take flight, circling up over Roebuck Bay then heading off for their northern breeding grounds more than 10,000 km away. I marvel at the epic journey ahead, […]
Marina plan threatens to destroy final stronghold of Endangered curlew
Everyone knows that Australians love to relax on the beach. But for some species, Moreton Bay on the east coast represents the difference between life and death. Every year, over 40,000 migratory shorebirds overwinter here. Among them is the Far Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis (Endangered), a bird whose population has plummeted by 80 per cent […]
Eurasian (Eastern) Curlew – Jubail
Whilst birdwatching the Jubail area I saw an Curlew N. a. orientalis. The Eastern Curlew occurs throughout central Siberia eastwards through central Russia to northeast China and winters in east and south Africa, Madagascar, and from the southern Caspian Sea south to the Persian Gulf and east through south Asia to east China and south […]