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	Migratory Waterbirds
		Migratory Waterbirds and the East Asian - Australasian Flyway
		Wetland habitat loss and degradation is a significant threat to migratory waterbirds, and the conservation of important sites across the Flyway is essential to their survival.
		International efforts to conserve migratory waterbirds entered a new phase on 6 November 2006 with the launch of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (Flyway Partnership).
	www.environment.gov.au /biodiversity/migratory/waterbirds/index.html (604 words)

	Waterbirds at Ponds and Fields in the Siletz/Logsden Area
		Waterbirds at ponds and fields in the Siletz/Logsden area of Lincoln County.
		Waterbirds of the Sewage Ponds at the Town of Siletz--- 120 Chap.
		Floyd Schrock's waterbird censuses at the Siletz Sewage Ponds.
	www.orednet.org /~rbayer/j/j101.htm (9594 words)

	InfoHub - Waterbirds Conservation
		, waterbirds stop for very short periods of time to rest and feed at staging sites - 'stepping stones' that are essential for migration and crucial to their survival.
		Waterbirds are broadly defined as: “birds ecologically dependent on wetlands”.
		During their annual migrations, the birds depend on a great diversity of habitats, ranging from the Arctic tundra to forests, rivers and estuaries, lakes and marshes, farm lands, rice fields, deserts, coastal marshes, sandy beaches, intertidal mudflats, coral reefs and atolls, and mangroves, most of which are wetlands.
	www.infohub.com /forums/showthread.php?p=10187#post10187 (372 words)

	"Waterbirds around the world" publication released!
		Waterbirds around the world – released today, is a new groundbreaking publication on the plight of the world’s waterbirds, which shows that more action needs to be taken by all countries to conserve these animals.
		Waterbirds around the world, gives an insight into the current state of knowledge on waterbirds, their migration routes and ongoing international efforts to conserve them.
		Waterbirds around the world is a landmark publication comprising 264 papers and reviews relating to 614 waterbird species from 162 countries.
	www.unep-aewa.org /news/news_elements/2007/waterbirds_around_the_world.htm (697 words)

	Australian waterbirds: genetics, movement patterns and conservation
		One of the difficulties in working with waterbirds is that field researchers, even those using radio-tracking, are limited in time and space – and this is an especially important consideration when dealing with an unpredictable and variable system.
		The patterns of past movements of waterbird populations, as well as vital information for biodiversity conservation, are present in the genes of individual birds.
		Knowledge of waterbird population dispersal and movement patterns can also be of immense benefit to epidemiologists in tracking the spread of animal-borne pathogens.
	www.hermonslade.org.au /projects/HSF_04_2/hsf_04_2.htm (383 words)

	Waterbirds: Linking Wetlands and Food Webs - www.wildasia.net
		Many waterbirds are migratory, undertaking annual migrations along different flyways spanning the length and breadth of the globe between their breeding and non-breeding grounds.
		During their annual migration, waterbirds stop for very short periods to rest and feed at staging sites that are essential for migration and crucial to their survival.
		The number of waterbirds using a particular habitat is related to the type and quality of habitat, availability of food, and level of disturbance.
	wildasia.net /main/article.cfm?articleID=155 (388 words)

	Home
		Waterbirds is an international scientific journal, published three times a year, specializing in the biology, status, ecology, management and conservation of all water-birds species living in marine, estuarine and freshwater habitats.
		Waterbirds welcomes submission of scientific papers and notes containing the results of original studies worldwide, unsolicited critical commentary and reviews of appropriate topics.
		Papers submitted to Waterbirds should not, currently, be submitted to, or be under consideration by, any other journal.
	www.waterbirds.org /instcon.htm (1932 words)

	Waterbirds around the world
		This publication gives a telling insight into the status of the world's most important waterbird migration routes and is the outcome of a major international conference.
		The Waterbirds around the world Conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland in April 2004 was attended by nearly 500 participants from 90 countries, making it the largest in a sequence of meetings that go back to the first European Meeting on wildfowl conservation held in St. Andrews, Scotland 40 years ago.
		The views expressed in papers included within Waterbirds around the world do not necessarily represent views of the editors or the organisations and governments that supported the conference and this publication.
	www.jncc.gov.uk /worldwaterbirds (554 words)

	Intermountain West US Region Waterbirds
		Waterbirds using this region are highly adaptable to constantly changing wetland conditions and depend on a regional-scale association of wetlands.
		Because of the West's feast-or-famine water regime, a network of high-quality wetland habitats with secure water sources is required in order to provide options for waterbirds during drought and flood cycles.
		The purpose of the IWWCP is to fill knowledge gaps and aid in all-bird conservation efforts of the Intermountain West Joint Venture, 11 States, and other entities associated with the geographic scope of the IWWCP.
	www.fws.gov /birds/waterbirds/Intermountainwest (651 words)

	On "Canticle to the Waterbirds"
		Such impositions are alike in taking the immediate experience of the physical world to be "a secondary thing." The waterbirds of this canticle, by virtue of being "lesser," become primary in their value and contribution.
		This is the grace conveyed in the cries of Everson's waterbirds: their "direct astuteness" to the natural order gives the poet a worthy model for imitation.
		To live beyond evasions and inwardness: this is the lesson taught by the waterbirds.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/a_f/everson/canticle.htm (1344 words)

	Migratory Waterbirds
		The Australian Government is conserving migratory waterbirds through a number of international agreements such as the Ramsar Convention and the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), and throughout the East Asian- Australasian Flyway, bilateral migratory bird agreements with Japan (JAMBA) and China (CAMBA).
		We are also cooperating with countries throughout the Asia-Pacific region to conserve waterbirds and their habitat under the Asia Pacific Migratory Waterbird Conservation Strategy and its component Action Plan for the Conservation of Migratory Shorebirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway: 2001-2005.
		A number of projects funded from the Natural Heritage Trust encourage the conservation of migratory waterbirds.
	www.deh.gov.au /biodiversity/migratory/waterbirds/index.html (252 words)

	Waterbird Conservation
		Humans have been so inspired by waterbirds that they have incorporated them into their religions; made them symbols of nations, states, and regions; and painted, photographed, and sculpted them in an effort to capture their beauty and mystique.
		On the other hand, waterbirds occasionally compete with humans for resources, and are thus sometimes reviled for their consumption of our crops and aquacultural products.
		For all of these reasons, waterbirds are of special interest to everyone concerned with conservation and environmental health.
	www.audubon.org /bird/waterbirds/Why_Import.html (285 words)

	Discovery Channel :: News - Animals :: World's Waterbirds in Steep Decline
		The fourth Waterbird Population Estimate found that 44 percent of the 900 species globally have fallen in the past five years, while 34 percent were stable, and 17 percent rising.
		At that time, 41 percent of waterbird populations worldwide were found to be decreasing.
		Simon Delany, a waterbird conservation officer for the Netherlands-based Wetlands International, which coordinated the survey, said the cause of the decline was a loss of wetlands either from economic and agriculture development or rising temperatures, which are blamed for worsening droughts and rising sea levels.
	dsc.discovery.com /news/2007/01/23/waterbirds_ani.html?category=animals&guid=20070123103000&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0001 (446 words)

	Audubon North Carolina
		Because these waterbirds nest in colonies, they were easy targets for market gunners who often pursued them as the birds tried to nest and tend their young.
		The vast wetlands that border rivers, lakes, streams, sounds, bays and barrier islands provide food for waterbirds food that is essential to their survival.
		To this end, Audubon is working to: acquire, protect and manage waterbird habitats; conduct research that will lead to a better understanding of these birds and aid in the development of successful management and protection strategies; and raise awareness about the vital importance of maintaining a healthy coastal environment.
	www.ncaudubon.org /ColonialWaterbirds.html (1364 words)

	WWF - WWF census reveals serious threats to waterbirds in the Yangtze River
		WWF and China’s State Forestry Administration conducted the first wetland and waterbird census in the area from the end of January to mid-February 2004, when the waterbird population in the area is at its peak.
		Among the population, ducks, geese and swans were the most common waterbirds observed, comprising 66% of the waterbirds counted, followed by shorebirds, gulls, and egrets and herons.
		WWF calls for the increased protection of waterbirds and their habitat along the floodplain of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
	www.panda.org /news_facts/newsroom/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=12542 (436 words)

	Catalyst: Waterbirds in Crisis - ABC TV Science
		Waterbird numbers are an excellent barometer for river health and, right now, numbers countrywide are crashing.
		It may look like a sanctuary for waterbirds, especially in a drought, but it’s actually places like this that are the at the heart of the long term waterbirds decline.
		Richard Kingsford: Well the waterbirds would have bred in the canopies of the trees and the holes in the trees, so basically what you’ve done is remove all the breeding habitat.
	www.abc.net.au /catalyst/stories/s725882.htm (872 words)

	Environmental Law
		Tales of migratory waterbirds as depicted in the 2001 documentary film Winged Migration[1]transports the viewer into the little-known drama of the lives of migratory waterbirds as global migrants.
		Various species of waterbirds, including the white stork, the Eurasian crane, the red-crowned crane, the bar-headed goose, and the snowgoose, are accompanied on their migratory route by humans flying along besides them.
		The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds, commonly known as AEWA (or the Agreement), is a Multilateral Biodiversity Agreement (MBDA)[21]for the protection of migratory waterbirds along their flyways.
	www.elawreview.org /elaw/381/waterbirds_the_2010_biodiversi.html (12519 words)

	Waterbirds
		The term waterbird refers to bird species dependent on aquatic habitats to complete portions of their life cycles.
		Waterbirds can be further characterized by other non-technical terms relating to where they typically forage:
		It should be noted, that in Central America and the Caribbean, conservationists tend to address all aquatic birds together, and the term "waterbirds" may be used to refer to all aquatic species.
	www.nawcp.org /waterbirds (250 words)

	Climate change forces waterbirds eastwardst
		Migratory British waterbirds are increasingly moving eastwards due to the effects of climate change, scientists noted at an international conference in Edinburgh on Waterbirds Around the World.
		Predictions show that the arctic breeding areas of waterbirds will be subject to major changes in coming decades, and as sea levels rise, the extent of inter-tidal feeding areas will be greatly reduced.
		Waterbirds Around the World is held between 3-8 April 2004 at the Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriott Watt University, Riccarton Campus, Currie Edinburgh EH14 4AS.
	www.ramsar.org /mtg/mtg_flyways_edinburgh3.htm (737 words)

	Migratory Birds Conservation - Wings over Water
		Although many seabirds and colonial waterbirds are quite numerous, their colonial breeding nature and relatively low reproductive output make them extremely sensitive to habitat and population level impacts.
		Waterbird biologists have made a preliminary list of those species where monitoring, research and conservation should be a priority (Appendix 1).
		Accordingly, the Vision of WOW is to ensure populations of waterbirds are sustained or restored throughout their historical range, in Canada and globally.
	www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca /mbc-com/default.asp?lang=En&n=B65F9B7E-1 (454 words)

	The Edinburgh Declaration, April 2004
		This highlights the perilous state of many of the world's waterbirds, recognising that this is driven by the continuing decline in the quality and extent of the world's wetlands, and sets a agenda for urgent and collaborative national and international action on wetlands and waterbirds, including through implementation of the Ramsar Convention.
		An international conference on waterbirds, their conservation and sustainable use was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 3 to 8 April 2004, and was attended by 456 participants from 90 countries.
		On a densely populated planet it is crucial that waterbird conservationists focus on their relationships with communities and governments as the means both of reversing the causes of poor conservation status, and of resolving conflicts with protected species.
	www.ramsar.org /mtg/mtg_flyways_edinburgh5.htm (1729 words)

	SWM: Why monitor waterbirds?
		Changes in waterbird abundance and distribution are difficult to measure.
		Local waterbird populations are relatively small, but they may reflect patterns of distribution and abundance occurring at a wider scale.
		Contributing to an improved understanding of their well-being is the Sound Waterbird Monitor's reward.
	home.comcast.net /~salix/swm/swm_why.htm (274 words)

	Waterbird Conservation
		Humans have been so inspired by waterbirds that they have incorporated them into their religions; made them symbols of nations, states, and regions; and painted, photographed, and sculpted them in an effort to capture their beauty and mystique.
		On the other hand, waterbirds occasionally compete with humans for resources, and are thus sometimes reviled for their consumption of our crops and aquacultural products.
		For all of these reasons, waterbirds are of special interest to everyone concerned with conservation and environmental health.
	audubon.org /bird/waterbirds/Why_Import.html (284 words)

	NPWRC :: Effects of a Legal Drain Clean-out on Wetlands and Waterbirds: a Recent Case History
		Numerous species of waterbirds nested in BBMK before the clean-out, and mean ranks of waterbird density were similar.
		After the clean-out, waterbirds failed to breed successfully in all years at BBM, and use as major waterfowl staging areas and for waterfowl hunting also ended.
		Despite causing the loss of wetland habitat for thousands of midcontinent waterfowl and other waterbirds, a Federal Court in North Dakota ruled that the clean-out of Drain No. 11 met the criteria necessary to be considered maintenance under Section 404 clause (f)(1)(c) and was not recaptured under clause (f)(2).
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/wetlands/case/index.htm (579 words)

	Habitat Value of Golf Course Wetlands to Waterbirds \| United States Golf Association
		Our objectives were to identify the diversity and abundance of waterbirds using golf course ponds and to evaluate the effects of numerous habitat variables on waterbird use.
		The large number of species of waterbirds observed during this study indicates that golf course ponds are used by many different types of waterbirds, principally as foraging habitat (46%).
		The extent to which waterbirds used golf course ponds in this study was primarily related to pond size, ability of the birds to access prey, and habitat features that influenced security and foraging success.
	www.usga.org /turf/green_section_record/2005/mar_apr/habitat.html (2045 words)

	Waterbirds
		Data describing colonial waterbird populations for the Texas coast are collected by volunteers and are maintained by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through the Texas Colonial Waterbird Census.
		The survey is done annually and attempts to count all of the nesting pairs in all of the colonies along the Texas coast.
		Try our Texas Colonial Waterbird Interactive Mapping Application to view details and trends in the sightings of of waterbirds for various bays and counties along the Texas Coast during recent years.
	cswgcin.nbii.gov /portal/community/Communities/Geographic_Perspectives/Central_Southwest_&_Gulf_Coast/Ecosystems/Bays_and_Estuaries/Waterbirds (465 words)

	World's waterbirds find themselves in a bind
		Efforts to save the world’s declining waterbirds have been brought into sharp focus today with the release of Waterbirds around the world, a global publication bringing together reports from a number of top scientists working on their conservation worldwide.
		The publication gives a unique overview of current conservation efforts to save the world’s waterbirds and highlights the need for global action to protect migratory birds and their flyways, particularly across Africa and Asia.
		“Waterbirds are highly susceptible to man-made change because the wetlands they inhabit are often densely populated and intensely utilised.
	www.birdlife.org /news/news/2007/03/waterbirds_around_the_world.html (383 words)

	Fauna Rescue of SA Waterbirds
		Each species having its own particular variation webbed toes for swimming, long legs for wading, sharp beaks for stabbing, broad bills for sifting, big toes for walking over water plants, hooked and sharp beaks for holding and eating fish, and still other variations.
		This section deals with the more common waterbirds which we have to deal with.
		There are many species of water birds; therefore it is important to look at the beak and feet to determine what they are and what they might eat.
	www.faunarescue.org.au /waterbirds.html (1026 words)

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