The International Wader Study Group (IWSG) is an association of amateurs and professionals from all parts of the world interested in Charadrii (waders or shorebirds). Membership of the WSG is currently over 650 worldwide. Members can be found in over 50 countries around the world, including all European countries and the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australasia.
The interests of the group have diversified from its original focus from ringing and migration-related studies to embrace all aspects of wader biology.
The aims of the International Wader Study Group are to:
- maintain contact between both amateurs and professionals stydying waders
- help organise co-operative studies; and
- provide a vehicle for exchange for information on waders and their biology
- holding an annual conference
- publishing, three times per year, the Wader Study Group Bulletin, and more recently also publshing Special Issues of the Bulletin each covering a major topic of wader biology and cosnervation; and
- acting as the Wetlands Wader Specialist Group
The WSG Coordinator is David Stroud.
Ongoing Projects
Golden Plover Survey: October 2008
Project "Tringa glareola 2000"
Breeding Waders in Europe 2000
WSG Colour Marking Register
Arctic Birds Breeding Conditions Survey: http://www.arcticbirds.ru/.
Please see the WSG website for more information.
The WSG Bulletin & IWS
It provides a forum for news, notices, ringing recoveries, recent publications, new study methods, articles and preliminary or interim publication of results from all parts of the world.
Each Bulletin contains a mix, of newsletter items, informal description of research activities, meetings and expeditions to formal presentation of research results. The size of Bulletin varies with each issue but usually consists of between 60 and l00 A4 pages.
Editor of the Wader Study Group Bulletin:
Dr Humphrey P. Sitters
Limosa, Old Ebford Lane, Ebford, Exeter EX3 0QR, U. K.
phone/fax: (44) 1392 873744
e-mail: hsitters@aol.com
The latest issue is availabel here.
Instructions to authors are available here.
The International Wader Studies (IWS) is a fully refereed occasional journal series published by the International Wader Study Group. More information is available here.
News
The International WSG's Annual Conference will take place in Texel in the Netherlands from the 18th until the 21st of September 2009.
More information is available here.