From 30 January to 2 February 2019, the 11th international conference of Working Group on Waders of Northern Eurasia "Actual issues of wader studies in Northern Eurasia" took place in the biological faculty of the Belarusian state University with the financial support of the Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research. The NASB Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Public Organization “Akhova Ptushak Batskaushchyny” participated in the conference. Belarusian and foreign scholars and representatives of environmental organizations discussed the issues of ecology, migration, number and species diversity, behavior, morphology and protection of waders.