East Asian–Australasian Flyway migratory birds

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East Asian–Australasian Flyway migratory birds are long-distance migratory waterbirds and shorebirds that travel seasonally between breeding grounds in northern Asia and non-breeding sites across East Asia and Australasia, relying on key wetlands along this route for feeding and resting.

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instanceOf migratory bird assemblage
waterbird
breedingRegion Arctic Russia NERFINISHED
Mongolia NERFINISHED
Siberia NERFINISHED
northern China
conservationFramework East Asian–Australasian Flyway Partnership NERFINISHED
dependOn coastal wetlands
estuaries
inland wetlands
intertidal mudflats
ecologicalRole nutrient transport between Arctic and southern wetlands
top invertebrate predators in intertidal zones
includeSpecies Aleutian tern NERFINISHED
Arctic tern NERFINISHED
Asian dowitcher NERFINISHED
Baikal teal
Caspian tern NERFINISHED
Chinese egret
Eurasian wigeon NERFINISHED
Hooded crane NERFINISHED
Latham’s snipe NERFINISHED
Oriental stork NERFINISHED
Pacific golden plover NERFINISHED
Saunders’s gull NERFINISHED
Siberian crane NERFINISHED
Terek sandpiper NERFINISHED
bar-tailed godwit NERFINISHED
black-faced spoonbill NERFINISHED
black-tailed godwit
curlew sandpiper
eastern curlew sandpiper NERFINISHED
far eastern curlew
great knot
greater sand plover NERFINISHED
grey plover
grey-tailed tattler NERFINISHED
lesser sand plover NERFINISHED
little tern
mallard
northern pintail
red knot
red-crowned crane NERFINISHED
red-necked stint NERFINISHED
ruddy turnstone
sharp-tailed sandpiper NERFINISHED
spoon-billed sandpiper NERFINISHED
spot-billed duck
whimbrel
white-naped crane NERFINISHED
white-winged black tern NERFINISHED
whooper swan
keyStopoverRegion Bohai Sea NERFINISHED
Japanese coastal wetlands
Moreton Bay wetlands NERFINISHED
keyStopoverRegion Gulf of Carpentaria wetlands NERFINISHED
Korean Peninsula coasts
Roebuck Bay NERFINISHED
Yellow Sea region NERFINISHED
migrateAlong East Asian–Australasian Flyway NERFINISHED
migrateBetween Australasian non-breeding sites
East Asia non-breeding sites
northern Asia breeding grounds
migrationDistance long-distance
monitoredBy East Asian–Australasian Flyway Site Network NERFINISHED
International Waterbird Census NERFINISHED
nonBreedingRegion Australia NERFINISHED
New Zealand NERFINISHED
Pacific islands NERFINISHED
Papua New Guinea NERFINISHED
Southeast Asia NERFINISHED
populationTrend declining for many shorebird species
recognizedBy Convention on Migratory Species NERFINISHED
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands NERFINISHED
threatenedBy climate change
coastal reclamation
disturbance
pollution
wetland loss
useFor moulting sites
non-breeding habitat
resting during migration
stopover feeding

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Candaba hasAvifaunaImportance East Asian–Australasian Flyway migratory birds
this entity surface form: East Asian–Australasian Flyway stopover
Coorong region importantFor East Asian–Australasian Flyway migratory birds
Great Sandy Strait isImportantFor East Asian–Australasian Flyway migratory birds
Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve isOn East Asian–Australasian Flyway migratory birds
this entity surface form: East Asian–Australasian Flyway
Dongtan Wetland isOnFlyway East Asian–Australasian Flyway migratory birds
this entity surface form: East Asian–Australasian Flyway
Roebuck Bay isOnFlyway East Asian–Australasian Flyway migratory birds
this entity surface form: East Asian–Australasian Flyway