09 September 2013 • 5:16pm Snettisham Bird Reserve lies on the edge of The Wash, one of the most important bird estuaries in the UK, supporting over 300,000 birds. A few times every year higher than ...

The term wader is used by birdwatchers to describe closely related species which share features such as relatively long legs, long beaks and spend most of their time in wetland areas in winter. There ...

Out of the estimated 3 million wader birds in Australia, about 2 million leave at this time of year. When they reach their final destination, where they stay for only a brief few weeks, they find the ...

A birdwatching team from Telangana on Sunday spotted near Warangal a spur-winged lapwing, believed to be the first one sighted in India. The wader bird, with the scientific name Vanellus spinosus was ...

It's officially summer, and "reverse migration" is taking place. After the spring nesting season has concluded and young birds become independent, the great waders -- herons, egrets and ibises -- ...

As Easter weekend approaches, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, in partnership with RSPB NI and NIEA, has issued a ...

More than half the populations of waders in Europe, West Asia and Africa are declining at an accelerating rate. According to a new publication by Wetlands International, more than half the populations ...

The redshank is one of the wader birds the RSPB says is under threat in Northern Ireland A number of wader bird species could become extinct in Northern Ireland's countryside without "drastic action", ...

The monsoon is round the corner and the wading birds must be on their way, hope birders. Apart from a variety of hunting birds, grain and insect eaters, a number of waders visit the city during the ...

Territorians are invited to welcome the wader birds back to the Top End next week, as part of a City of Darwin community event. Welcome to the Waders event co-ordinator Tiffanie Pearse said the small ...

BirdLife Malta have released a number of illegally trapped waders after they were found at an active trapping site and were confiscated by police and the ERA, the NGO said on Sunday. The birds were ...