The Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS)
Welcome to the WeBS homepage! The Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) is the scheme which monitors non-breeding waterbirds in the UK. The principal aims of WeBS are to identify population sizes, determine trends in numbers and distribution and to identify important sites for waterbirds.
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February 2nd is World Wetlands Day, marking the anniversary of the adoption of the international Ramsar Convention on wetlands. Read more about how WeBS monitoring can be used to raise the importance of wetlands in our part of the world.

WeBS Core Count date: 12th February 2012
ur estuaries become especially critical at such times for internationally important populations of waders and wildfowl, and of course will continue to provide us with some of the most amazing spectacles of the birding calendar.
This winter has seen the second ever record of Western Sandpiper for the WeBS database (with a winterer continuing to reside at Cley in Norfolk). What price the discovery of another wintering Nearctic wader by WeBS counters in February...?
Count dates
The core count dates for 2011/12 are available here.




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