Wader Quest is a Birdlife Species Champion

Wader Quest is very pleased and indeed proud, to announce that it has now become a BirdLife Species Champion supporting the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme.

We are delighted to be helping BirdLife with their vital work in trying to prevent all globally threatened birds from going the way of the Dodo.

Globally Threatened birds are those that are Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable. List of wader species that are Critically Endangered:

Sociable Lapwing: Dubai, UAE. November 2012.

Black Stilt: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3103

Sociable Lapwing: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3172

Javan Lapwing: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3156

St. Helena Plover: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3123

Eskimo Curlew: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3008 (presumed extinct)

Slender-billed Curlew: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3011

Spoon-billed Sandpiper: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3060

Jerdon's Courser: http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3182

Read the BirdLife Species Guardian field updates for:
Spoon-billed Sandpiper
http://www.birdlife.org/extinction/pdfs/Spoon-billed_Sandpiper_Guardian_Action_Update.pdf
Jerdon's Courser

http://www.birdlife.org/extinction/pdfs/Jerdons_Courser_Guardian_action_update.pdf
Sociable Lapwing
http://www.birdlife.org/extinction/pdfs/Sociable_Lapwing_Guardian_Action_Update.pdf

See a full list of Species Champions in this link: http://www.birdlife.org/extinction/champions_roh.html

Spoon-billed Sandpiper: Pak Thale, Thailand. November 2012.