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Spoon-billed Sandpiper: Part Three - interview with Nial Moores
By Charlie • October 23, 2009 • 4 commentsI’ve been involved with Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation for much of this decade, thanks entirely to my brother Nial Moores (photo left) who has lived and breathed shorebird conservation for over fifteen years - first in Japan, and then South Korea (where he’s now lived for ten years). A series on the Spoon-billed Sandpiper without his [...]
The Spoon-billed Sandpiper: Part One (of Six)
By Charlie • October 21, 2009 • 9 comments
Non-breeding Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Yubu Island, South Korea, October 15 2008
Photograph copyright Espen Lie Dahl
A few weeks ago we trailed a series of posts planned to give current data on one of the world’s most charismatic, rapidly-declining, and threatened birds - the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus, a unique, migratory shorebird confined in rapidly dwindling [...]
Review: “Invisible Connections”, Jan van de Kam
By Charlie • March 19, 2009 • No comments yet“Invisible Connections”: no, not the 1985 album by ‘Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient and neo classical music Vangelis’ (though I’m sure some old muso will end up here through Google at some point), but a beautifully photographed and lucid account in three languages (Korean, Chinese, English) of the journey made by migrating shorebirds [...]
