Part 3. Geographic regions

Summary

White Pelicans in the Doudj NP Senegal © Sergey Dereliev

A major focus of the conference was a series of workshops on the status of waterbirds and their conservation in different geographical regions. This gave the opportunity for comparisons around the world. As well as workshops on regions with a long history of waterbird and wetland conservation such as North America (3.3), particular emphasis was given to ensuring reviews of regions with recently developing activity such as in the Neotropics (3.2), Africa (3.4), Central Asia (3.5), and the East Asia-Pacific flyway (3.6).

The focus of the workshop on Africa and Eurasia (3.7) related to sustainable use of waterbird resources – one of the central objectives of the African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement, with which the workshop was linked.

The Arctic (3.1) holds critical importance as the source of all of the major hemispheric waterbird flyways and special attention was given to this region throughout the conference – not just in the geographically related workshop.

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Part 3. Geographic regions - introduction
3.1 The Arctic: source of flyways

Workshop convenor: Gudmundur Gudmundsson
(PDF, 389 kb)
3.1.1 Monitoring Arctic-nesting shorebirds: an international vision for the future

Richard B. Lanctot (on behalf of the Committee for Holarctic Shorebird Monitoring) (PDF, 600 kb)
3.1.2 Breeding performance of tundra waders in response to rodent abundance and weather from Taimyr to Chukotka, Siberia

Mikhail Y. Soloviev, Clive D.T. Minton & Pavel S. Tomkovich (PDF, 647 kb)
3.1.3 The Arctic connection: monitoring coastal waders in South Africa - a case study

Doug M. Harebottle & Les G. Underhill (PDF, 680 kb)
3.1.4 Thirty years of Arctic wader monitoring in the Dutch part of the Wadden Sea

Meinte Engelmoer, Gerard Boere & Ebel Nieboer (PDF, 885 kb)
3.1.5 Stable isotope analysis and threats in the wintering areas of the declining Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus in the East Asia-Pacific Flyway

Christoph Zöckler, Eugeny E. Syroechkovskiy, Jr., Elena G. Lappo & Gillian Bunting (PDF, 1.8 mb)
3.1.6 Declines in breeding waterbirds following a redistribution of Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea in West Greenland

Carsten Egevang, Kaj Kampp & David Boertmann (PDF, xx kb)
3.1.7 Long-term study of Bewick's Swans, Cygnus columbianus bewickii, nesting in the Nenetskiy State Nature Reserve, Russia: preliminary results and perspectives
Eileen Rees & Anna Belousova (PDF, 641 kb)
3.2 Waterbirds in the Neotropics
Workshop convenors: Melanie Steinkamp & Roberto Schlatter (PDF, 561 kb)
3.2.1 Potential new Ramsar sites in northwest Mexico: strategic importance for migratory waterbirds and threats to conservation

X. Vega, M.A. González & A. Muñoz del Vieja (PDF, 617 kb)
3.2.2 The importance of Costa Rica for resident and migratory waterbirds

Ghisselle M. Alvarado Quesada (PDF, 815 kb)
3.2.3 Shorebird monitoring in the Upper Bay of Panama

Loyda E. Sánchez, Deborah M. Buehler & Alberto I. Castillo (PDF, 750 kb)
3.2.4 Rice culture in Cuba as an important wintering site for migrant waterbirds from North America

Lourdes Mugica, Martín Acosta, Dennis Denis, Ariam Jiménez, Antonio Rodríguez & Xavier Ruiz (PDF, 715 kb)
3.2.5 Waterbird monitoring and conservation in protected areas of the Colombian Pacific

Luis Germán Naranjo, Luis Fernando Castillo, Richard Johnston-González, Carlos Hernández, Carlos Ruiz & Felipe Estela (PDF, 637 kb)
3.2.6 Important areas for waterbirds on the Pacific coast of Colombia

Luis Germán Naranjo, Alexandra Aparicio & Patricia Falk (PDF, 659 kb)
3.2.7 Status of the Black-necked Swan Cygnus melancorypha and Coscoroba Swan Coscoroba coscoroba in the south of Brazil

Joao Oldair Menegheti & Joao Carlos Dotto (PDF, 545 kb)
3.2.8 Opportunism required - migratory shorebirds at variable tidal flats in the northeast of Brazil

Kerstin Kober (PDF, 579 kb)
3.2.9 Biodiversity and conservation in the Bañados del Este, southeastern Uruguay

Adrian B. Azpiroz & Francisco Rilla (PDF, 598 kb)
3.2.10 Abundance, distribution and migration chronology of shorebirds on exposed sandy beaches of south central Chile

Alexandra Aparicio (PDF, 524 kb)
3.2.11 The conservation status of migratory waterbirds in Argentina: towards a national strategy

Sergio D. Goldfeder & Daniel E. Blanco (PDF, 624 kb)
3.2.12 The Ruddy-headed Goose Chloephaga rubidiceps mainland population: a flyway perspective

Daniel E. Blanco, Ricardo Matus, Olivia Blank, Victoria M de la Balze & Sergio M Zalba (PDF, xx kb)

3.3 Flyway conservation in North America

Workshop convenor: Paul Schmidt (PDF, 641 kb)
3.3.1 Integrated waterfowl management in North America

Robert J. Blohm, David E. Sharp, Paul I. Padding, Ronald W. Kokel & Kenneth D. Richkus (PDF, 681 kb)
3.3.2 Summary of the Workplans for 2005 of the Waterbird Conservation Council’s committees

Jennifer Wheeler (PDF, 601 kb)
3.3.3 Canada's Waterbird Conservation Plan - building on 30 years experience on the North American Great Lakes

Donna L. Stewart, D.V. Chip Weseloh, Brigitte Collins, Steve Timmermans & Jon McCracken (PDF, 525 kb)
3.3.4 Population declines in North American shorebirds: ecology, life history and sexual selection

Gavin M. Thomas, Richard B. Lanctot & Tamás Székely (PDF, 612 kb)
3.3.5 Coordinated waterbird monitoring in the Pacific flyway of the western U.S.: the Idaho Bird Inventory and Survey (IBIS)

Rex Sallabanks & Colleen E Moulton (PDF, 656 kb)
3.3.6 Individual behaviour, population genetics and phylogeography of North American mergansers

John M. Pearce (PDF, 592 kb)
3.3.7 Using national plans in North America to conserve shorebirds at an international scale

Garry Donaldson, Brad Andres, Aurea Estrada & Stephen Brown (PDF, 541 kb)
3.3.8 Issues and challenges facing migratory bird conservation programs in North America

Steve Wendt, Paul Schmidt & Garry Donaldson (PDF, 538 kb)
3.4 Intra-African migration
Workshop convenors: Issa Sylla & Tim Dodman (PDF, 589 kb)
3.4.1 Conservation dilemmas for intra-African migratory waterbirds

Tim Dodman & Cheikh Hamallah Diagana (PDF, 666 kb)
3.4.2 An investigation into inter-colony movements of African Penguins Spheniscus demersus

P.A. Whittington, J. Griffin, P. Bartlett, R.J.M. Crawford, N.T.W. Klages, R.M. Randall & A.C. Wolfaardt (PDF, 641 kb)
3.4.3 Anatidae numbers and distribution in West Africa in winter

Bernard Trolliet & Olivier Girard (PDF, 700 kb)
3.4.4 Anatidae wintering in the Inner Niger Delta, Mali

Olivier Girard (PDF, 594 kb)
3.4.5 Lesser Flamingo Phoenicopterus minor counts in Tanzanian soda lakes: implications for conservation

Charles Mlingwa & Neil Baker (PDF, 886 kb)
3.4.6 Satellite-tracking documents the East African flyway and key site network of the Lesser Flamingo Phoenicopterus minor
Brooks Childress, Baz Hughes, David Harper, Wim Van den Bossche, Peter Berthold & Ulrich Querner (PDF, 736 kb)
3.4.7 Movements of three Greater Flamingos Phoenicopterus ruber roseus fitted with satellite transmitters in Tanzania
N.E. Baker, E.M. Baker, W. Van den Bossche & H. Biebach (PDF, 802 kb)
3.4.8 Waterbirds in Tanzania: what we know and what we do not; where are the knowledge gaps?
N.E. Baker & E.M. Baker (PDF, 921 kb)
3.4.9 Conservation biology of an endemic waterbird of Madagascar, the Madagascar Plover Charadrius thoracicus: distribution, surveys and photographs
Sama Zefania & Tamás Szekély (PDF, 743 kb)
3.4.10 Madagascar Teal Anas bernieri: the ecology and conservation of a short distance migrant
Hywel Glyn Young (PDF, 1.3 mb)
3.4.11 Subsistence use of waterbirds at Lake Chilwa, Malawi
Roy Bhima (PDF, 530 kb)
3.4.12 Waterbird ringing in Africa

H. Dieter Oschadleus (PDF, 696 kb)
3.5 Flyway conservation in the Central Asian Flyway
Workshop convenor: Taej Mundkur (PDF, 588 kb)
3.5.1 Waterbirds in the valleys of the Ob river tributaries (Western Siberia) and their conservation
T.K. Blinova, I.V. Gromyshev & M.M. Samsonova (Mukhacheva) (PDF, 525 kb)
3.5.2 Study and conservation of the Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus on the Putorana Plateau, southern Taimyr: results and perspectives
Alexey Romanov (PDF, 516 kb)
3.5.3 Waterbird surveys in the Tobolo-Irtyshskaja forest-steppe and steppe of Western Siberia

Sergei A. Soloviev (PDF, 525 kb)
3.5.4 Waterbird populations in the Barabinsk Lowland, Russia, 1976-2003
A. P. Yanovsky (PDF, 620 kb)
3.5.5 Past and current status of Anatidae populations in Kazakhstan
Sergey N. Yerokhov (PDF, 764 kb)
3.5.6 Creating protected areas on Lake Balkhash and Ile River Delta in the Kazakstan Republic
Altay Zhumakan-Uly Zhatkanbayev (PDF, 615 kb)
3.5.7 The effect of habitat change on the distribution of waterbirds in Uzbekistan and the possible implications of climate change
Elena A. Kreuzberg-Mukhina (PDF, 1.3 mb)
3.5.8 The Aral Sea basin: changes in migratory and breeding waterbird populations due to major human-induced changes to the region’s hydrology
Elena A. Kreuzberg-Mukhina (PDF, 757 kb)
3.5.9 The importance of Uzbekistan’s wetlands for supporting wintering waterfowl of the Central Asian Flyway
Yevgeniya Lanovenko (PDF, 590 kb)
3.5.10 A review of the wetlands of Afghanistan
Ahmad Khan (PDF, 733 kb)
3.5.11 Strategic role of Pakistan wetland resources: prospects for an effective migratory waterbird conservation network
Kashif M. Sheikh & Naseem Kashif (PDF, 569 kb)
3.5.12 Decreases in size of lakes and numbers of birds in selected wetlands in Pakistan Ali Zulfiqar & Muhammad Akhtar (PDF, 679 kb)
3.5.13 The decline in wader populations along the east coast of India with special reference to Point Calimere, south-east India
S. Balachandran (PDF, 618 kb)
3.5.14 Important Bird Areas in western India
Aeshita Mukherjee & Burkhard Wilske (PDF, 575 kb)
3.5.15 Importance of wetlands for conservation of bird life in the dry lands of western India
Aeshita Mukherjee & Burkhard Wilske (PDF, 612 kb)
3.5.16 Status of migratory shorebirds at Bhitakanika and Chilika wetlands on the east coast of India
Anup Kumar Nayak (PDF, 607 kb)
3.5.17 Residential, population and conservation status of Indian wetland birds
Arun Kumar, P.C. Tak & J.P. Sati (PDF, 524 kb)
3.5.18 Protection of habitat of Sarus Crane Grus antigone in Bhoj wetland, India
Pradip Kumar Nandi (PDF, 611 kb)
3.5.19 Nesting sites and breeding success of Black-necked Cranes Grus nigricollis in Ladakh, India
Pankaj Chandan, Parikshit Gautam & Archana Chatterjee (PDF, 754 kb)
3.6 East Asia – Pacific Flyway
Workshop convenor: Taej Mundkur (PDF, 618 kb)
3.6.1 Shorebird migration studies in Kamchatka
Yuri N. Gerasimov (PDF, 657 kb)
3.6.2 Conserving migrating shorebirds in the Yellow Sea region
C. Kelin & X. Qiang (PDF, 514 kb)
3.6.3 The North East Asian Crane Site Network
Simba Chan (PDF, 626 kb)
3.6.4 The role of Asian wetland centres in the conservation of wetlands and migratory waterbirds
Lew Young (PDF, 1.2 mb)
3.6.5 Shorebird research in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway: looking to the future: looking to the future
Phil J. Straw, Ken B. Gosbell & Clive D.T. Minton (PDF, 602 kb)
3.6.6 Threatened waterbird species in eastern and southern Asia and actions needed for their conservation
Michael J. Crosby & Simba Chan (PDF, 940 kb)
3.6.7 Monitoring waterbirds in the Asia-Pacific region
David Li Zuo Wei & Taej Mundkur (PDF, 813 kb)
3.6.8 Shorebird abundance and diversity in Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore
James T.W.M. Gan & R.K. Ramakrishnan (PDF, 626 kb)
3.6.9 Using predictive modelling to investigate large-scale shorebird migration in the Russian Far East for Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris, Red Knot Calidris canutus and Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
Kyle Kusch & Falk Huettmann (PDF, 527 kb)
3.6.10 Status and conservation of the Little Curlew Numenius minutus on its over-wintering grounds in Australia
M.G. Bellio, P. Bayliss, S. Morton & R. Chatto (PDF,595 kb)
3.7 Sustainable use of natural resources in the African-Eurasian Flyway
Workshop convenor: Bert Lenten (PDF, 611 kb)
3.7.1 The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds
Bert Lenten (PDF, 785 kb)
3.7.2 Conservation problems of migratory waterfowl and shorebirds and their habitats in the Kaliningrad region of Russia
Dimitri Grishanov (PDF, 524 kb)
3.7.3 The state and conservation problems of key stop-over sites of migratory Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago in the Kaliningrad region of Russia
Julia Yarovikova (PDF, 570 kb)
3.7.4 The Neman River Delta: a potential Ramsar site in Kaliningrad, Russia
Gennady Grishanov & Dmitri Grishanovy (PDF, 514 kb)
3.7.5 The migration routes of waterfowl and their protection in Baikal Siberia
Yuri I. Mel’nikov (PDF, 761 kb)
3.7.6 Enigmas about Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus in the East Atlantic Flyway
Bernard Trolliet (PDF, 557 kb)
3.7.7 The European Non-Estuarine Coastal Waterbird Survey
Steve J. Holloway, Niall H.K. Burton & Mark M. Rehfisch (PDF, 641 kb)
3.7.8 The evaluation of some key wetlands for waterfowl in Central Anatolia, Turkey
Utku Perktaş, Atıl Bariş Albayrak & Zafer Ayaş (PDF,808 kb)
3.7.9 Changes in abundance and diversity of waders and wintering waterfowl on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea
Ahmad Barati & Olia Gholi Khalilipoor (PDF, 698 kb)
3.7.10 Results of eight years of monitoring wintering and nesting waterbirds in Azerbaijan
Elchin Sultanov (PDF, 607 kb)
3.7.11 Evolution of freshwater lagoons in Daghestan and their importance for waterbirds on the west Caspian coast
E.V. Vilokov (PDF, 515 kb)
3.7.12 An overview of the Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage (ONCFS) research programmes on Anatidae
Vincent Schricke (PDF, 557 kb)
3.7.13 Waterbirds of Baie de Baly, Madagascar
Rivo Rabarisoa, Odon Rakotonomenjanahary & Julien Ramanampamonjy (PDF, 545 kb)
3.7.14 Trends in numbers of migrant waders (Charadrii) at Langebaan Lagoon, South Africa, 1975-2003
Doug M. Harebottle, Rene A. Navarro, Les G. Underhill & Manfred Waltner (PDF, 1.4 mb)
3.7.15 The breeding sites and distribution of Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina in Hungary
Attila Bankovics (PDF, 527 kb)
3.7.16 The Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus at the verge of the millennium
Vladimir V. Morozov (PDF, 570 kb)

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