[1]The 9th Workshop of the Eurasian Spoonbill International Expert Group [2] was held in Tunisia in November 2018 (find out more [3]).
Its participants, of which the Tour du Valat as an active member of the group, have just published the proceedings of the workshop (download the document here opposite or below)
It gathers the following 10 original articles as well as 13 abstracts:
Articles
- An Overview of Eurasian Spoonbill Trends
- Ten-year Evaluation of the Implementation of the AEWA Eurasian Spoonbill International Action Plan
- Recent trends of the Breeding Population of Spoonbill in France 2012-2018
- The Return of the Eurasian Spoonbill to the United Kingdom and the First Modern Colony at Holkham National Nature Reserve
- Monitoring Breeding Spoonbill Population in Croatia During 2016-2018 Period
- Spoonbills from the Netherlands. Where Do They Go and When?
- Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia in Camargue: History, Trends and First Results
- The Ontogeny of Migration: the Importance of Genes and the Early-Life Environment in Shaping Migration Strategies of Spoonbills
- Delayed Recruitment of First Natives
- Estimate the Number of Birds Using a Stopover Area: a Study Case with Eurasian Spoonbill During Fall Migration
Abstracts
- Status of the Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia in Numidia, Northeast Algeria
- Breeding Biology of the Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia leucorodia in a New Colony at Ouedel-Maleh Dam, Casablanca, Morocco
- Ecological Study of the Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia leucorodia in Its Atlantic Coastal Migration Areas of Senegal
- Is There a Differential Age-Migration Timing in Spoonbills? Preliminary Analysis on a Crucial Migratory Corridor in the Iberian Southwestern Coast During Autumn
- Dispersal and Survival of Adult Eurasian Spoonbills in Croatia
- Spoonbill-Tracking in Hungary: What Do We Know, and What Are the Missing Data?
- Importance of Tunisia as Wintering and Stopover Area for the Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia Analyses of 20 years of Data Collection (1998-2018)
- The Split of the Central and South-east European Populations
- Spatio-Temporal Factors Affecting Habitat Use by Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia in the Gulf of Gabès, Tunisia
- First Breeding Record of Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia archeri (Newman, 1928) at Dungonab Bay Marine Park on the Sudanese Red Sea Coast
- Foraging Success and Group-feeding Size in Eurasian Spoonbills
- Working with an Ex Situ Population of Eurasian Spoonbill in Amsterdam Royal Zoo in the Netherlands
- Underpinning the Conservation of Spoonbills and other Migrating Waterbirds: Monitoring the Weak Links in ‘Chains’ of Wetland Habitats
Bibliographical reference: Champagnon J., Kralj J., Cano Alonso, L. S. & Sundar, K. S. G. (ed.) 2019. Proceedings of the IX Workshop of the AEWA Eurasian Spoonbill International Expert Group. IUCN-SSC Stork, Ibis and Spoonbill Specialist Group Special Publication 2. Arles, France. ISBN 978-2-491451-00-4