Anyone for a jaunt to Mongolia?
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> From: "'Buckingham, David' [orientalbirding]"
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> Date: 13 April 2015 8:16:00 pm AEST
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> Subject: [OB] volunteers requested for Yellow-breasted Bunting survey in
> Mongolia
> Reply-To: "Buckingham, David" <>
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> Dear All
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> Would you like to join in with surveys for breeding Yellow-breasted Buntings
> in Mongolia?
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> A Mongolian research team working on migrant birds is seeking help with
> locating suitable breeding populations, so that they can track their annual
> migration using geolocators. Teaming up with the Mongolian migrants project
> offers a golden opportunity to learn more about the migration of this
> threatened species. The decline of the Yellow-breasted Bunting has become
> infamous due to the size of the population crash and because it is the
> classic victim of several major conservation threats: it’s a long-distance
> migrant, it breeds on threatened natural grasslands, it winters in
> increasingly hostile agricultural areas and it’s good to eat/easy to catch,
> resulting in severe hunting pressure. Because the species ranges over such
> large areas each year, it is difficult to follow them and work out where the
> main threats occur. For this reason, improving our knowledge of the species’
> migration is an important conservation goal.
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> To make geolocator studies work, you need a reasonably large population of
> birds breeding in one area. Geolocator tags are fitted to breeding adults as
> these are the most likely to return to their breeding sites. It is necessary
> to recapture each bird to retrieve the migration data from its tag. If you do
> this right, each retrieved geolocator can provide more information than
> 10,000’s of conventional metal bird rings/bands. The aim of this year’s work
> is to locate suitable breeding populations. These sites will be revisited in
> 2016 to tag birds and in 2017 to retrieve the tags after the birds have
> undergone one annual migration. The surveys will take place in June and
> further details can be found on the OSME website at:
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> http://www.osme.org/content/volunteers-needed-find-remaining-endangered-yellow-breasted-buntings-mongolia
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> Best wishes
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> Dave Buckingham
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> OBC Conservation Committee
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