Welcome to the New Home of World Shorebirds Day
Since 2014, World Shorebirds Day has grown into a global community connected by migration, observation, conservation, and a shared admiration for shorebirds. This new portal is designed to give that community a permanent home.
Since its beginning in 2014, World Shorebirds Day has gradually grown from a simple idea into a global initiative connecting people through shorebirds, migration, observation, conservation, photography, research, and local action.
Over the years, the project expanded across multiple platforms, pages, announcements, and communication channels. While this growth helped World Shorebirds Day reach new audiences, it also made communication increasingly fragmented and sometimes difficult to follow, especially for participants trying to keep track of annual activities, counts, updates, and new initiatives.
This new portal was created to bring these elements together into a more focused and accessible space.
The aim is not simply to modernise the website, but to create a clearer long-term home for the initiative. A place where participants, researchers, conservation organisations, photographers, artists, educators, and shorebird enthusiasts can more easily follow projects, access information, participate in global activities, and explore stories connected to shorebirds and migration.
The platform will continue to support the Global Shorebird Counts, annual World Shorebirds Day activities, educational content, conservation communication, and future collaborations across flyways.
At the same time, the new structure also allows the initiative to grow more naturally. New projects, including Oystercatcher Day, can now exist within a connected framework instead of being scattered across separate communication channels.
The core idea behind World Shorebirds Day remains unchanged.
Shorebirds connect continents, habitats, and people through movement. Protecting them requires not only conservation work in the field, but also long-term public engagement and international cooperation across the flyways they depend on.
Thank you to everyone who has supported, followed, contributed to, or participated in World Shorebirds Day since 2014.
This new chapter continues with the same purpose, but with a clearer direction and a stronger foundation for the future.
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