
The logo bird of World Shorebirds Day. © Matt Filosa (Photo was legally embedded from the photographer’s Flickr stream with a direct link to his portfolio. Check out his work.)
Thanks to the amazing efforts made around the world in counting shorebirds, we have just crossed a major milestone. Under the umbrella of World Shorebirds Day, the 2018 Global Shorebird Counts is the most successful shorebird counting ever.
See what we have achieved here and compare the number of submitted and shared checklists with the previous year’s results.

We have submitted and shared
962!
checklists, and more to come.
Number of recorded shorebird species
Number of shared checklists
Number of unique counting locations
151
962775
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