Global Flyway Network
@globalflyway.bsky.social
globalflywaynetwork.org is a non-profit that seeks to foster connections across global shorebird flyways. Our website makes visible the journeys of shorebirds tracked by colleagues worldwide.
Developed and curated by BirdEyes (birdeyes-gfn.bsky.social)
Developed and curated by BirdEyes (birdeyes-gfn.bsky.social)
3-year old #spoonbill PUCCI from #Schiermonnikoog likes the northwest of Iberia in winter; just circumnavigated Bay of #Biscay for first stop near Ribadeo, Spain.
Explore spoonbill #tracks and locations they use at: globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
birdeyes.org, werkgroeplepelaar.org/en/
Explore spoonbill #tracks and locations they use at: globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
birdeyes.org, werkgroeplepelaar.org/en/
September 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
3-year old #spoonbill PUCCI from #Schiermonnikoog likes the northwest of Iberia in winter; just circumnavigated Bay of #Biscay for first stop near Ribadeo, Spain.
Explore spoonbill #tracks and locations they use at: globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
birdeyes.org, werkgroeplepelaar.org/en/
Explore spoonbill #tracks and locations they use at: globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
birdeyes.org, werkgroeplepelaar.org/en/
The demise of slender-billed #curlews could well have been pushed by the disappearance of the enormous Dutch #estuary of #Zuiderzee in 1932. Zuiderzee had the same brackish gradients as Merja Zerga, Morocco. Read this unacknowledged publication, based on oral accounts, in
@IBIS_journal.
@IBIS_journal.
September 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The demise of slender-billed #curlews could well have been pushed by the disappearance of the enormous Dutch #estuary of #Zuiderzee in 1932. Zuiderzee had the same brackish gradients as Merja Zerga, Morocco. Read this unacknowledged publication, based on oral accounts, in
@IBIS_journal.
@IBIS_journal.
Interested in following the BREATHING OF THE TIDES, visualized by the movements of #WATLAS tagged #waders/#shorebirds in the western Dutch Wadden Sea?
Follow the amazing 'community tracking' at maps.nioz.nl/watlas/
www.waakvogels.nl
@allertbijleveld.bsky.social
@niozsearesearch.bsky.social
Follow the amazing 'community tracking' at maps.nioz.nl/watlas/
www.waakvogels.nl
@allertbijleveld.bsky.social
@niozsearesearch.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Interested in following the BREATHING OF THE TIDES, visualized by the movements of #WATLAS tagged #waders/#shorebirds in the western Dutch Wadden Sea?
Follow the amazing 'community tracking' at maps.nioz.nl/watlas/
www.waakvogels.nl
@allertbijleveld.bsky.social
@niozsearesearch.bsky.social
Follow the amazing 'community tracking' at maps.nioz.nl/watlas/
www.waakvogels.nl
@allertbijleveld.bsky.social
@niozsearesearch.bsky.social
#Whimbrels SOGA and ABU have migrated back to the #Bijagós nonbreeding area in Guinea-Bissau after their breeding season in Iceland. You can track it all yourself by playing at www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
Check it out!
@roelandbom.bsky.social @joseaalves.bsky.social
Check it out!
@roelandbom.bsky.social @joseaalves.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
#Whimbrels SOGA and ABU have migrated back to the #Bijagós nonbreeding area in Guinea-Bissau after their breeding season in Iceland. You can track it all yourself by playing at www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
Check it out!
@roelandbom.bsky.social @joseaalves.bsky.social
Check it out!
@roelandbom.bsky.social @joseaalves.bsky.social
New ways at www.globalflywaynetwork.org to PLAY with the mapping of currently tagged shorebird!
Anyone can show that many adult black-tailed #godwits from NW Europe are underway to W Africa right now, with the youngsters lingering behind with some adults.
www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
Anyone can show that many adult black-tailed #godwits from NW Europe are underway to W Africa right now, with the youngsters lingering behind with some adults.
www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
July 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
New ways at www.globalflywaynetwork.org to PLAY with the mapping of currently tagged shorebird!
Anyone can show that many adult black-tailed #godwits from NW Europe are underway to W Africa right now, with the youngsters lingering behind with some adults.
www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
Anyone can show that many adult black-tailed #godwits from NW Europe are underway to W Africa right now, with the youngsters lingering behind with some adults.
www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
A cool figure in doi.org/10.1002/ece3... is the "maximum clade credibility" tree for 37 Australian shorebird species included in the study. The colours of dots at the ends of branches indicate the 3 types of non-breeding habitats distinguished. Images from field guide of Menkhorst et al. (2017).
June 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A cool figure in doi.org/10.1002/ece3... is the "maximum clade credibility" tree for 37 Australian shorebird species included in the study. The colours of dots at the ends of branches indicate the 3 types of non-breeding habitats distinguished. Images from field guide of Menkhorst et al. (2017).
More than two decades in the making! Well worth it.
The new question is: Why do migratory #shorebirds frequenting coastal non-breeding habitats delay #maturity (expressed in age of first return #migration) more than species using inland freshwater habitats?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
The new question is: Why do migratory #shorebirds frequenting coastal non-breeding habitats delay #maturity (expressed in age of first return #migration) more than species using inland freshwater habitats?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
June 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
More than two decades in the making! Well worth it.
The new question is: Why do migratory #shorebirds frequenting coastal non-breeding habitats delay #maturity (expressed in age of first return #migration) more than species using inland freshwater habitats?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
The new question is: Why do migratory #shorebirds frequenting coastal non-breeding habitats delay #maturity (expressed in age of first return #migration) more than species using inland freshwater habitats?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Een wereld van verbondenheid!
Kijk eens op www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci... om de indrukwekkende trek terug naar West Afrika van onze (gezenderde) #grutto's te aanschouwen!
www.birdeyes.org
@omropfryslan.nl @vogelbeschermingnl.bsky.social @laurabromet.bsky.social @waderstudy.bsky.social
Kijk eens op www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci... om de indrukwekkende trek terug naar West Afrika van onze (gezenderde) #grutto's te aanschouwen!
www.birdeyes.org
@omropfryslan.nl @vogelbeschermingnl.bsky.social @laurabromet.bsky.social @waderstudy.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Een wereld van verbondenheid!
Kijk eens op www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci... om de indrukwekkende trek terug naar West Afrika van onze (gezenderde) #grutto's te aanschouwen!
www.birdeyes.org
@omropfryslan.nl @vogelbeschermingnl.bsky.social @laurabromet.bsky.social @waderstudy.bsky.social
Kijk eens op www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci... om de indrukwekkende trek terug naar West Afrika van onze (gezenderde) #grutto's te aanschouwen!
www.birdeyes.org
@omropfryslan.nl @vogelbeschermingnl.bsky.social @laurabromet.bsky.social @waderstudy.bsky.social
Southward #migration of black-tailed #godwits has started, shown by tagged birds at www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci....
Connections also made by colour-ringed #grutto ringed 18May by René van Dam in Frl. After losing 2d old chicks, seen today at Evoa, Portugal by @rochafonso.bsky.social.
Connections also made by colour-ringed #grutto ringed 18May by René van Dam in Frl. After losing 2d old chicks, seen today at Evoa, Portugal by @rochafonso.bsky.social.
June 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Southward #migration of black-tailed #godwits has started, shown by tagged birds at www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci....
Connections also made by colour-ringed #grutto ringed 18May by René van Dam in Frl. After losing 2d old chicks, seen today at Evoa, Portugal by @rochafonso.bsky.social.
Connections also made by colour-ringed #grutto ringed 18May by René van Dam in Frl. After losing 2d old chicks, seen today at Evoa, Portugal by @rochafonso.bsky.social.
WAT HEBBEN WE ONZE GROND AANGEDAAN?
Eerder vonden onderzoekers van www.birdeyes.org hoge concentraties #PFAS in levers van #grutto's, vooral in broeders kruidenrijke weilanden (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). Ook eieren blijken rijk bedeeld.
Het schadelijke PFAS zit dus inmiddels overal.
Eerder vonden onderzoekers van www.birdeyes.org hoge concentraties #PFAS in levers van #grutto's, vooral in broeders kruidenrijke weilanden (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). Ook eieren blijken rijk bedeeld.
Het schadelijke PFAS zit dus inmiddels overal.
May 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
WAT HEBBEN WE ONZE GROND AANGEDAAN?
Eerder vonden onderzoekers van www.birdeyes.org hoge concentraties #PFAS in levers van #grutto's, vooral in broeders kruidenrijke weilanden (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). Ook eieren blijken rijk bedeeld.
Het schadelijke PFAS zit dus inmiddels overal.
Eerder vonden onderzoekers van www.birdeyes.org hoge concentraties #PFAS in levers van #grutto's, vooral in broeders kruidenrijke weilanden (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). Ook eieren blijken rijk bedeeld.
Het schadelijke PFAS zit dus inmiddels overal.
The class of SINAGOTE, Vlieland 2006
lynxnaturebooks.com/product/sina...
Among the 17 chicks colour-ringed on 20 June on Vlieland was SINAGOTE, but also aB[Y1]/W[Y1]. Now 19 years old, this #spoonbill still comes to Vlieland & was photographed along the Postweg by Michiel Muller in recent days.
lynxnaturebooks.com/product/sina...
Among the 17 chicks colour-ringed on 20 June on Vlieland was SINAGOTE, but also aB[Y1]/W[Y1]. Now 19 years old, this #spoonbill still comes to Vlieland & was photographed along the Postweg by Michiel Muller in recent days.
May 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The class of SINAGOTE, Vlieland 2006
lynxnaturebooks.com/product/sina...
Among the 17 chicks colour-ringed on 20 June on Vlieland was SINAGOTE, but also aB[Y1]/W[Y1]. Now 19 years old, this #spoonbill still comes to Vlieland & was photographed along the Postweg by Michiel Muller in recent days.
lynxnaturebooks.com/product/sina...
Among the 17 chicks colour-ringed on 20 June on Vlieland was SINAGOTE, but also aB[Y1]/W[Y1]. Now 19 years old, this #spoonbill still comes to Vlieland & was photographed along the Postweg by Michiel Muller in recent days.
Klasgenoot van SINAGOTE! noordboek.nl/boek/sinagote/
Tot de 17 kuikens die op 20 juni 2006 op Vlieland werden gekleurringd behoorde SINAGOTE, maar ook aB[Y1]/W[Y1]. 19 jaar oud komt deze #lepelaar nog steeds naar Vlieland-werd de afgelopen dagen langs de Postweg door Michiel Muller gefotografeerd.
Tot de 17 kuikens die op 20 juni 2006 op Vlieland werden gekleurringd behoorde SINAGOTE, maar ook aB[Y1]/W[Y1]. 19 jaar oud komt deze #lepelaar nog steeds naar Vlieland-werd de afgelopen dagen langs de Postweg door Michiel Muller gefotografeerd.
May 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Klasgenoot van SINAGOTE! noordboek.nl/boek/sinagote/
Tot de 17 kuikens die op 20 juni 2006 op Vlieland werden gekleurringd behoorde SINAGOTE, maar ook aB[Y1]/W[Y1]. 19 jaar oud komt deze #lepelaar nog steeds naar Vlieland-werd de afgelopen dagen langs de Postweg door Michiel Muller gefotografeerd.
Tot de 17 kuikens die op 20 juni 2006 op Vlieland werden gekleurringd behoorde SINAGOTE, maar ook aB[Y1]/W[Y1]. 19 jaar oud komt deze #lepelaar nog steeds naar Vlieland-werd de afgelopen dagen langs de Postweg door Michiel Muller gefotografeerd.
This is bar-tailed #godwit SEDTSYS.
We saw it at Striep, Terschelling, Dutch Wadden Sea on Friday 23 May, and a day later she was cruising the Gulf of Finland on her way to the Taimyr tundra! The exodus of barwits from #WaddenSea is almost complete. See: www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
We saw it at Striep, Terschelling, Dutch Wadden Sea on Friday 23 May, and a day later she was cruising the Gulf of Finland on her way to the Taimyr tundra! The exodus of barwits from #WaddenSea is almost complete. See: www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
May 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
This is bar-tailed #godwit SEDTSYS.
We saw it at Striep, Terschelling, Dutch Wadden Sea on Friday 23 May, and a day later she was cruising the Gulf of Finland on her way to the Taimyr tundra! The exodus of barwits from #WaddenSea is almost complete. See: www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
We saw it at Striep, Terschelling, Dutch Wadden Sea on Friday 23 May, and a day later she was cruising the Gulf of Finland on her way to the Taimyr tundra! The exodus of barwits from #WaddenSea is almost complete. See: www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
In the morning of 26 April 2025 Maxime Bodhuin photographed a bar-tailed #godwit at Sangatte beach near Calais in northern France. L4YBLL was recaptured a day later on Texel, Netherlands, by Jaap Strikwerda & Bram van der Veen! On Texel she had received her colour-rings in May 2011 from Joop Jukema.
April 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
In the morning of 26 April 2025 Maxime Bodhuin photographed a bar-tailed #godwit at Sangatte beach near Calais in northern France. L4YBLL was recaptured a day later on Texel, Netherlands, by Jaap Strikwerda & Bram van der Veen! On Texel she had received her colour-rings in May 2011 from Joop Jukema.
#MEEP a 2yr old #spoonbill born in #WaddenSEa on #Griend. Having chosen to winter close to TheHague, it is started a nest in trees with another youngster (see black feather tips).
#Lepelaar #MEEP 2 zomers oud en geboren op Griend probeert te gaan broeden bij Leiden.
Photo's by Arnaud van den Berg
#Lepelaar #MEEP 2 zomers oud en geboren op Griend probeert te gaan broeden bij Leiden.
Photo's by Arnaud van den Berg
April 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#MEEP a 2yr old #spoonbill born in #WaddenSEa on #Griend. Having chosen to winter close to TheHague, it is started a nest in trees with another youngster (see black feather tips).
#Lepelaar #MEEP 2 zomers oud en geboren op Griend probeert te gaan broeden bij Leiden.
Photo's by Arnaud van den Berg
#Lepelaar #MEEP 2 zomers oud en geboren op Griend probeert te gaan broeden bij Leiden.
Photo's by Arnaud van den Berg
Sustainable forms of intertidal shellfish harvesting do exist! They are old and culturally strongly embedded in the Bijagós archipelago in Guinea-Bissau. An inspiration!
www.wildlifebiology.org/blog/benign-...
@migratoryspecies.bsky.social
www.wildlifebiology.org/blog/benign-...
@migratoryspecies.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Sustainable forms of intertidal shellfish harvesting do exist! They are old and culturally strongly embedded in the Bijagós archipelago in Guinea-Bissau. An inspiration!
www.wildlifebiology.org/blog/benign-...
@migratoryspecies.bsky.social
www.wildlifebiology.org/blog/benign-...
@migratoryspecies.bsky.social
#Lepelaar JESSY, vorig jaar op Vlieland voorzien van een zender, is terug op Vlieland en gefotografeerd door Michiel Muller. Onderzoek zelf zijn vliegtocht op: www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
#Spoonbill JESSY made it back to Vlieland after a return flight starting at the Vendée, France.
#Spoonbill JESSY made it back to Vlieland after a return flight starting at the Vendée, France.
April 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
#Lepelaar JESSY, vorig jaar op Vlieland voorzien van een zender, is terug op Vlieland en gefotografeerd door Michiel Muller. Onderzoek zelf zijn vliegtocht op: www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...
#Spoonbill JESSY made it back to Vlieland after a return flight starting at the Vendée, France.
#Spoonbill JESSY made it back to Vlieland after a return flight starting at the Vendée, France.
Het was een bijzondere eer voor zowel de #grutto als voor SPINOZAwinnaar Prof. Lodi Nauta van @unigroningen.bsky.social, om aan elkaar voorgesteld te worden. Lodi, die toevallig in de buurt was, liet de vogel los. Zij keerde ook de daaropvolgende zomers weer terug naar @gemeenteswf.bsky.social.
February 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Het was een bijzondere eer voor zowel de #grutto als voor SPINOZAwinnaar Prof. Lodi Nauta van @unigroningen.bsky.social, om aan elkaar voorgesteld te worden. Lodi, die toevallig in de buurt was, liet de vogel los. Zij keerde ook de daaropvolgende zomers weer terug naar @gemeenteswf.bsky.social.
De geringde grutto heet JOUKE SJOERDSPOLDER. In die polder in @gemeenteswf.bsky.social werd zij op 22 mei 2020 gevangen door @arnevaneerden.bsky.social, en geringd en gezenderd door Jos Hooijmeijer en @roelandbom.bsky.social. Vandaag gefilmd door Jouke Altenburg in rijstvelden van de Taag, Portugal.
February 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
De geringde grutto heet JOUKE SJOERDSPOLDER. In die polder in @gemeenteswf.bsky.social werd zij op 22 mei 2020 gevangen door @arnevaneerden.bsky.social, en geringd en gezenderd door Jos Hooijmeijer en @roelandbom.bsky.social. Vandaag gefilmd door Jouke Altenburg in rijstvelden van de Taag, Portugal.
Today, Kees de Jager of the @globalflyway.bsky.social / www.birdeyes.org team made some footage from a human observer point of view, as he was looking for colour-rings. All this work shows the immense importance of Tagus estuary. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
x.com/eco_flyway
x.com/eco_flyway
February 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Today, Kees de Jager of the @globalflyway.bsky.social / www.birdeyes.org team made some footage from a human observer point of view, as he was looking for colour-rings. All this work shows the immense importance of Tagus estuary. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
x.com/eco_flyway
x.com/eco_flyway
Today, Jesús Carriön photographed black-ailed #godwit WARNSERPOLDER in flight at L'Albufera wetland comples near Valencia, Spain. Too bad transmitter has been dead for 2 years now, but the good news is that the #skries #grutto is perfectly alive!
@laurabromet.bsky.social
@wadertales.bsky.social
@laurabromet.bsky.social
@wadertales.bsky.social
February 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Today, Jesús Carriön photographed black-ailed #godwit WARNSERPOLDER in flight at L'Albufera wetland comples near Valencia, Spain. Too bad transmitter has been dead for 2 years now, but the good news is that the #skries #grutto is perfectly alive!
@laurabromet.bsky.social
@wadertales.bsky.social
@laurabromet.bsky.social
@wadertales.bsky.social
Tijd om weer eens in oude kranten te duiken. We kenden 4 jaar geleden het verhaal al. Ineens heeft de minister haast en kiest voor het waddentracé waarbij de ecologische hotspots het best worden geraakt? Stug!
@waddenvereniging.bsky.social
@natuurmonumenten.bsky.social
@inekevangent.bsky.social
@waddenvereniging.bsky.social
@natuurmonumenten.bsky.social
@inekevangent.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Tijd om weer eens in oude kranten te duiken. We kenden 4 jaar geleden het verhaal al. Ineens heeft de minister haast en kiest voor het waddentracé waarbij de ecologische hotspots het best worden geraakt? Stug!
@waddenvereniging.bsky.social
@natuurmonumenten.bsky.social
@inekevangent.bsky.social
@waddenvereniging.bsky.social
@natuurmonumenten.bsky.social
@inekevangent.bsky.social
Black-tailed #godwit WARNSERPOLDER from Friesland is a celebrity (e.g. x.com/GlobalFlyway...). Antonio Alcocer photographed it at L'Albufera wetland Valencia, Spain. This first obervation of this season on 6 Feb tallies well with the dates in 2020-2024 (6, 15, 9, 7 & 12 Feb, resp.). #skries #grutto
February 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Black-tailed #godwit WARNSERPOLDER from Friesland is a celebrity (e.g. x.com/GlobalFlyway...). Antonio Alcocer photographed it at L'Albufera wetland Valencia, Spain. This first obervation of this season on 6 Feb tallies well with the dates in 2020-2024 (6, 15, 9, 7 & 12 Feb, resp.). #skries #grutto
Now that black-tailed #godwits during northward #migration stage in Portugal & Spain, observers of www.birdeyes.org make efforts to record the individuals present. On 5 Feb Maarten Hotting identified a godwit metal-ringed as chick on 18 June 2001 in Friesland. At 24yr it is now an experienced elder!
February 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Now that black-tailed #godwits during northward #migration stage in Portugal & Spain, observers of www.birdeyes.org make efforts to record the individuals present. On 5 Feb Maarten Hotting identified a godwit metal-ringed as chick on 18 June 2001 in Friesland. At 24yr it is now an experienced elder!
Namibia Post has issued a serious of beautiful #stamps with migratory birds: how #Namibia is connected with the world! One is about bar-tailed #godwits, with their #migration connecting Namibia with #WaddenSea and the Siberian #tundra. Thanks for the careful work, Helge Denker, helgedenker.com!
February 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Namibia Post has issued a serious of beautiful #stamps with migratory birds: how #Namibia is connected with the world! One is about bar-tailed #godwits, with their #migration connecting Namibia with #WaddenSea and the Siberian #tundra. Thanks for the careful work, Helge Denker, helgedenker.com!