1. School of Biological Sciences University of Queensland St Lucia Queensland Australia
2. Department of Biological Sciences National University of Singapore Singapore
3. Spoon‐billed Sandpiper (Shanghai) Environment Protection Technology Co. Ltd Shanghai China
4. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Coastal Ecosystems Research Station of the Yangtze River Estuary, and Shanghai Institute of Eco‐Chongming Fudan University Shanghai China
5. Global Flyway Network Nelson New Zealand
6. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University Princeton New Jersey USA
7. NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research Department of Coastal Systems and Utrecht University Den Burg, Texel The Netherlands
8. Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences University of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands