Splitting Willets
A charismatic shorebird, the Willet has just been split into two species, the Western Willet Tringa inornata and Eastern Willet Tringa semipalmata according to the TiF checklist based on the recently published […]
Celebrate with me for a shorebird gift for you!
Today I turned 50. I’m not sure yet whether it is a disaster or a nice reason to celebrate. Anyway, I give something for you on this day. One of […]
Updated GoFundMe campaign
I have updated the fundraising campaign and changed it to a crowd sourcing one. The campaign, as the entire publishing project, doesn’t simply target creating a beautiful book series, but […]
Unveiling the cover design and art of Volume 1
It’s been a while I have worked on the cover design of the first volume. Not because it was so difficult to find out how it should look like, but […]
Fair game with every partner
A slightly offensive comment on image submission from today forced me to write a short blog about the business behaviour in this project. This is a private project – means, no […]
Rewards offered for donors
It is very encouraging to see the first donations coming for our appeal to cover the gaps in our limited budget. Thanks for all who looked at it. I am […]
We have a donation page
I set a donation page for the project in a hope to cover some missing funds for participating conferences. While the project is running according to plans, there is a […]
Is Banded Stilt actually a Banded Avocet?
Back in 2004 scientists published a supertree hypothesis as a framework for future molecular studies on shorebirds. According to their concept the family Recurvirostridae is divided into two subfamilies: Himantopodinae […]
UPDATED: What to know about image submissions?
We have plenty of time to make our bird photography database complete, yet we already started accepting excellent images. In this blog post I share a few more thoughts about […]
Subscribe to our Newsletter
The all new newsletter is an effective way to keep everyone informed who is interested in the progress report of the project, shorebird related topics and also special offers. The […]
New shorebirds in the HBW and BirdLife Illustrated Checklist
With the publishing of HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1 (Non-passerines) some interesting changes have been made in taxonomy of Charadriiformes, adopting […]
Remembering Allan Baker
On 20 November 2014 a great shorebird scientist, Allan Baker passed away, leaving his family and the shorebird science world behind. While I personally have never met him, his name […]
Taxonomic changes v4.4
The IOC taxonomic update v4.4 has just been published and while no shorebird splits or lumps were proposed, there are some changes on subspecies level. The Northern Jacana, Long-billed Curlew […]
Introducing: The Artist
It is a pleasure to introduce the artist of this project. Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok is an incredibly young and talented artist from one of most diverse corner of Thailand. Ayuwat was […]
Shorebird photographs
One of the biggest challenges of this exciting project is to map ‘where we are’ at the moment. I have extensively browsed the internet to find shorebird photographs of outstanding […]
