The International Wader Study Group (IWSG) is one of the most influential and longstanding research groups in wader studies, with members including researchers, citizen scientists, and conservation workers worldwide. The 2022 IWSG conference was held in Szeged, the third-largest city in Hungary, from September 22 to 25, 2022. It was the first offline conference in the field of European wader studies since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a sponsor of this conference, Global Messenger was invited to participate.
The opening ceremony of the conference
Global Messenger's lightweight transmitters on exhibition at the conference
The bird tracking workshop was a new addition to this year's conference, organized by Global Messenger, to encourage wader researchers to actively participate in tracking studies. Dr Bingrun Zhu, representing Global Messenger, gave a presentation on the migration tracking study of the Asian black-tailed godwit, which attracted great interest.
Our representative Zhu Bingrun gave a presentation
The workshop also included an award for tracking projects, where each contestant had 3 minutes to present and showcase their tracking project. After the committee's evaluation, doctoral students from Aveiro University in Portugal and Debrecen University in Hungary won the "Best Scientific Project Award" and the "Most Popular Project Award". Both awards' prizes were 5 GPS/GSM solar-powered transmitters provided by Global Messenger. The winners stated they would use these trackers for research work in the Tagus estuary in Lisbon, Portugal, and Madagascar, Africa.
The devices sponsored by Global Messenger for this conference were a type of ultra-light transmitter (4.5g) with BDS+GPS+GLONASS multi-satellite navigation systems. It communicates globally and is suitable for studying the movement ecology of small-sized bird species worldwide.
Winners receive their awards
Dr Camilo Carneiro, the 2021 "Best Bird Tracking Project" winner from the South Iceland Research Center, presented the Whimbrel tracking research sponsored by Global Messenger (HQBG0804, 4.5g). Dr Roeland Bom, a researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, presented the Bar-tailed godwit tracking research using Global Messenger transmitters (HQBG1206, 6.5g).
Dr Roeland Bom's research on the migration of Bar-tailed Godwits
Dr Camilo Carneiro's study on the migration of Whimbrel
Acknowledgements to Global Messenger
Post time: Apr-25-2023
