Theunis has been fostering my devotion to waders for more than three decades. For the past decade or so, in my role at the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) leading BirdLife International’s Global Flyway policy work, it has been a pleasure to help use the Global Flyway Network’s work to deliver conservation action of benefit to the birds, especially in the Yellow Sea.
My conservation objectives include:
Nicola Crockford, Theunis Piersma (left) and David Melville (middle) deeply involved in Yellow Sea protection plans (IWSG meeting 2013 Wilhelmshaven, Germany)
My recent publications
Three have been published in early 2017 in Bird Conservation International. Two are on Slender-billed Curlew given my role as the Chair of the Slender-billed Working Group:
The third is a result of an International Wader Study Group workshop, inspired by our failure to prove the existence of Slender-billed Curlew despite an extensive search of the non-breeding areas and the wish to prevent any more of the Numeniini tribe from following Slender-billed and Eskimo Curlew to the brink of extinction:
An additional product of that workshop are Conservation Statements for Numeniini Species (all 13 species and 38 populations).