Conserving wading bird populations under threat from habitat loss and predators - Louise de Raad

The plight of waders breeding in the UK is well known. All of our familiar species are in serious decline and we hear frequent warnings about local extinctions for some of them. Well known causes of decline are a loss of quality habitat due to changes in land use and intensified agricultural practices, and we are seeing increased losses of wader nests to a variety of predators. But there are still questions to answer: what are the relative impacts of different predators and how can these be managed? What are the most important features in the landscape for waders and how do they exploit them at different times of year? How can productive farming and wader conservation co-exist?

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