New WHSRN Species Conservation Plan available online: Upland Sandpiper

© Peter Vickery

As a response to the conservation priorities established in the U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan, the WHSRN Executive Office works with shorebird experts in partner organizations to develop action-oriented Species Conservation Plans. In addition to summarizing what is known about a species’s ecology, status, habitat requirements, threats, and important sites, plan authors identify and prioritize conservation actions needed in the short term to stop or reverse the species’s population decline for the long term.

We are very grateful to Peter Vickery, Daniel Blanco, and Bernabé López-Lanús for bringing to fruition WHSRN’s most recently completed plan, the Conservation Plan for the Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda). The many biologists and conservationists who contributed their data and knowledge about “Uppies” for the plan are also greatly appreciated. The Upland Sandpiper’s range includes central Canada, the U.S. Midwest, and vast areas across South America, where much is unknown about this species. In some parts of its range, the species’s population is actually increasing; in others, declining.

View the 55-page plan that addresses the many aspects of this long-distant migrant’s needs here.