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Chestnut-banded Plovers – specialists isolated and at risk

September 8, 2017by nataliedosremedios Leave a comment

Shorebirds are capable of flying extraordinary distances so why might some species stay put? Whereas some plover species disperse so widely that populations remain connected over thousands of kilometres, our […]

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Publishing

No more Javan Plover? – Further mixing the Kentish Plover complex

May 28, 2017by Gyorgy Szimuly 1 Comment

The Kentish Plover have always have been the subject of taxonomical debates (e.g. Snowy Plover Charadrius nivosus split from C. alexandrinus) and research outcomes were not always popular among birdwatchers (e.g. confirming […]

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Taxonomy

Shorebird and habitat photos

October 6, 2016by Gyorgy Szimuly 7 Comments

The shorebird image submissions for the handbook is progressing well but still many of the previously registered bird photographers haven’t shown any activity despite multiple reminders. We are pleased by […]

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Publishing

Splitting Willets

August 23, 2016by Gyorgy Szimuly 4 Comments

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 […]

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Taxonomy

Celebrate with me for a shorebird gift for you!

March 24, 2016by Gyorgy Szimuly Leave a comment

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 […]

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Project

Updated GoFundMe campaign

March 5, 2016by Gyorgy Szimuly Leave a comment

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 […]

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Unveiling the cover design and art of Volume 1

December 20, 2015by Gyorgy Szimuly Leave a comment

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 […]

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Illustration, Publishing

Fair game with every partner

June 11, 2015by Gyorgy Szimuly Leave a comment

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 […]

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Image Library

Rewards offered for donors

May 13, 2015by Gyorgy Szimuly Leave a comment

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 […]

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Donation

We have a donation page

May 12, 2015by Gyorgy Szimuly Leave a comment

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 […]

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Donation

Is Banded Stilt actually a Banded Avocet?

April 17, 2015by Gyorgy Szimuly 1 Comment

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 […]

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Taxonomy

UPDATED: What to know about image submissions?

February 27, 2015by Gyorgy Szimuly 1 Comment

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 […]

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Image Library

Subscribe to our Newsletter

December 28, 2014by Gyorgy Szimuly 1 Comment

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 […]

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Project

New shorebirds in the HBW and BirdLife Illustrated Checklist

December 14, 2014by Gyorgy Szimuly 1 Comment

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 […]

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Taxonomy

Remembering Allan Baker

December 9, 2014by Gyorgy Szimuly Leave a comment

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 […]

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Taxonomy

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