Graham Appleton
@wadertales.bsky.social
Writer & life-long birdwatcher.
Formerly Director of Communications for BTO.
#WaderTales blogs about #waders #shorebirds #birds #ornithology
Formerly Director of Communications for BTO.
#WaderTales blogs about #waders #shorebirds #birds #ornithology
Reposted by Graham Appleton
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Is inbreeding a problem in small head-started populations?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/i...
Is inbreeding a problem in small head-started populations?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/i...
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
3/4
Is inbreeding a problem in small head-started populations?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/i...
Is inbreeding a problem in small head-started populations?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/i...
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Fast forward 30 years.
Seedlings are growing in (and beyond) the 500 metre buffer.
Will foresters remove them, to maintain the space that waders need?
Planning need to create zones for forestry and waders - they are not going to coexist!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Fast forward 30 years.
Seedlings are growing in (and beyond) the 500 metre buffer.
Will foresters remove them, to maintain the space that waders need?
Planning need to create zones for forestry and waders - they are not going to coexist!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
4/4
Fast forward 30 years.
Seedlings are growing in (and beyond) the 500 metre buffer.
Will foresters remove them, to maintain the space that waders need?
Planning need to create zones for forestry and waders - they are not going to coexist!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Fast forward 30 years.
Seedlings are growing in (and beyond) the 500 metre buffer.
Will foresters remove them, to maintain the space that waders need?
Planning need to create zones for forestry and waders - they are not going to coexist!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
3/4
The Iceland paper suggests that zoning would help.
Focus woodland in bigger blocks and create one big wader-shadow - not lots of smaller ones.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...
The figure shows a 200 metre buffer.
The new Sheard paper suggests a 500 metre buffer.
Buffers aren't fixed ..
The Iceland paper suggests that zoning would help.
Focus woodland in bigger blocks and create one big wader-shadow - not lots of smaller ones.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...
The figure shows a 200 metre buffer.
The new Sheard paper suggests a 500 metre buffer.
Buffers aren't fixed ..
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
3/4
The Iceland paper suggests that zoning would help.
Focus woodland in bigger blocks and create one big wader-shadow - not lots of smaller ones.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...
The figure shows a 200 metre buffer.
The new Sheard paper suggests a 500 metre buffer.
Buffers aren't fixed ..
The Iceland paper suggests that zoning would help.
Focus woodland in bigger blocks and create one big wader-shadow - not lots of smaller ones.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...
The figure shows a 200 metre buffer.
The new Sheard paper suggests a 500 metre buffer.
Buffers aren't fixed ..
2/4
This Scottish review suggests that forests create a 500 metre 'wader-shadow'.
This is consistent with Icelandic field-based work, summarised in this blog:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...
For Whimbrel, there is a suggestion that the edge effect starts to weaken at about 600 metres but ..
This Scottish review suggests that forests create a 500 metre 'wader-shadow'.
This is consistent with Icelandic field-based work, summarised in this blog:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...
For Whimbrel, there is a suggestion that the edge effect starts to weaken at about 600 metres but ..
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
2/4
This Scottish review suggests that forests create a 500 metre 'wader-shadow'.
This is consistent with Icelandic field-based work, summarised in this blog:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...
For Whimbrel, there is a suggestion that the edge effect starts to weaken at about 600 metres but ..
This Scottish review suggests that forests create a 500 metre 'wader-shadow'.
This is consistent with Icelandic field-based work, summarised in this blog:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...
For Whimbrel, there is a suggestion that the edge effect starts to weaken at about 600 metres but ..