CREAF Webinar: Fuelling the journey – Monitoring local food abundance for migratory waterbirds

Coastal wetlands provide the food resources that sustain millions of migratory waterbirds along the East Atlantic Flyway. Tiny organisms such as worms and shellfish fuel these remarkable journeys, but changes in food availability can have significant impacts on bird survival and populations. Monitoring local food abundance is therefore essential for understanding ecological change, assessing the impacts of climate change and informing effective conservation and site management.

Join this one-hour webinar organised by the Climate Resilient East Atlantic Flyway (CREAF) project to learn about practical approaches to monitoring food abundance in coastal wetlands and how these data can support climate-resilient conservation.

The webinar will feature presentations by Catarina Santos Ramos, PhD student at CESAM – Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, and the BirdEyes Centre for Global Ecological Change, University of Groningen, and Allert Bijleveld, Senior Scientist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). The presentations will be followed by a live question-and-answer session.

Language: English with simultaneous French interpretation.