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Tracking the Sociable Lapwing: conservation beyond the breeding ground

 

Key Facts

FUNDING SCHEME ICON
FUNDING SCHEME
Post-Project
VALUE ICON
VALUE
£141,000
WHERE ICON
WHERE
Turkey, Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, India

Summary

To extend and develop local capacity to better understand and improve the conservation status of the Sociable Lapwing in all key countries along its migration routes and in its wintering areas
 
Status Completed
Reference EIDPO035
Round 16
Start 01/04/2009
End 31/03/2011

Project Leader


Project Partners
AEWA - Secretariat of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds, Nature Iraq, Sudanese Wildlife Society, RBCU - Russian Bird Conservation Union, Syrian Society for Conservation and Wildlife - SSCW, Doga Dernegi - DD, BNHS - Bombay Natural History Society, ACBK - Association for the Conservation of Biodliversity in Kazakhstan


Regions
South Asia, Europe & Central Asia

Broad Approches
MIGRATORY SPECIES, SPECIES CONSERVATION

Specific Tools
NBSAP, MONITORING, RESEARCH, RESEARCH TRAINING

Countries
Turkey, Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, India

Project Outputs
Output 1. Satellite tag attachment and colour-ringing of birds on breeding grounds continues. Output 2. Migration routes and stop-over areas are identified across the species’ world range Output 3. Location, extent and habitat of the Sociable Lapwing’s wintering areas clarified Output 4. Causes and degree of threats at key passage and wintering sites assessed Output 5. Public awareness raised in all key migration and wintering areas on the importance of Sociable Lapwing and the degree and nature of threats that it faces Output 6. International and national Species Action Plans developed and agreed within each of the key range states


Documents:
Download: Final Report - EIDPO035 FR - revised edited - 18/07/2012

Download: Half Year Report - EIDPO035 HY2 - 09/02/2011

Download: Half Year Report - EIDPO035 HY1 - 27/09/2010

Download: Application Form - EIDPO035 application - 30/03/2009