Less than a week to go and preparations are in full swing.
Passport and visa sorted, US dollars bought and gear laid out on the spare bed.
Emails coming in by the bucket load and lots of other things to read. At long last there is light at the end of the tunnel and Syria seems within reach.
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The Sociable Lapwing has suffered huge declines and is now listed as critically endangered. It is the main species that Hywel Maggs, Graham Rebecca, Martin Scott and John Wills will be searching for in Syria. We are working for the RSPB in collaboration with the Syrian Society for the Conservation of Wildlife (SSCW) and the Syrian Ministry of Local Administration and Environment.
The Sociable Lapwing
About the Project
- The project aims to establish the importance of Syria as a migration route for Sociable Lapwing and to identify key sites that may require future conservation protection. This survey will follow up recent sightings of large flocks of sociable lapwings in Northern Syria and will help establish a longer term conservation effort for the species. The project links to a wider project on Sociable Lapwing and will potentially contribute to the development of future work on the species’ wintering grounds and migration routes (funding dependent).
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About Us
- Martin Scott
- Brue, Outer Hebrides
- I am one of a team of four Scottish birders heading for Syria in a quest for Sociable Lapwings, Bald Ibis and a host of other birds in this underwatched middle eastern country. Home is normally on the windswept Atlantic seaboard of the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides so the arid steppe of Syria will be quite a contrast!