New WHSRN Species Conservation Plan now available: Dunlin

In response to the conservation priorities established in the U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan, the WHSRN Executive Office has been working with shorebird experts in partner organizations to develop targeted Species Conservation Plans. In addition to summarizing what is known about a species’ ecology, status, habitat requirements, threats, and important sites, plan authors identify and prioritize conservation actions needed to stop or reverse the species’ population decline.

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We’re grateful to Guillermo Fernández, Joseph Buchanan, Bob Gill, Rick Lanctot, and Nils Warnock for their utmost dedication as authors on WHSRN’s Conservation Plan for the Dunlin with Breeding Populations in North America (Calidris alpina arcticola, C. a. pacifica, and C. a. hudsonia). Their expertise, and that of many shorebird biologists they consulted, was invaluable in developing a conservation plan for this complex species that has subspecies ranging from Southeast Asia to the U.S. Pacific and Atlantic Coasts, to Mexico’s Baja Peninsula and Laguna Madre. View the 78-page plan here.