Flyway Site Network
Blue dots indicate important sites for migratory waterbirds and red dots indicate sites in the Flyway Site Network. Illustration: Maki Koyama © 2008 Partnership for EAAF. Press image for enlargement.
The Flyway Site Network refers to the network of important sites - wetlands - used by migratory waterbirds throughout the Flyway.
The East Asian-Australasian Flyway (the Flyway) is one of nine major migratory waterbird flyways around the globe and is home to over 50 million migratory waterbirds - including shorebirds, Anatidae (ducks, geese and swans), cranes, and seabirds (for example divers, cormorants, gulls, shearwaters, and auks) - from over 250 different populations.
There are currently 700 sites recognised as internationally important to migratory waterbirds along the flyway.
Flyway Site Network today
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Number of Flyway Network Sites >> 109
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Number of Countries joining Flyway Site Network >> 15 (Russia 10, USA 1, Mongolia 5, China 19, North Korea 2, South Korea 11, Japan 29, Bangladesh 5, Philippines 2, Thailand 1, Malaysia 1, Singapore 1, Indonesia 2, Papua New Guinea 1, Australia 17, New Zealand 2)
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Total surface area of designated sites (hectares) >> 19,414,282 (except 6 sites from Australia, 4 sites from Japan and 1 site from Thailand for now)
Criteria for inclusion in the Flyway Site Network.
To be considered for inclusion in the Flyway Site Network, the Partnership has adopted the following criteria:
Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971) criteria for internationally important sites for migratory waterbirds. That is:
Criterion 2: A wetland should be considered internationally important if it supports vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered species or threatened ecological communities.
Criterion 5: A wetland should be considered internationally important if it regularly supports 20,000 or more waterbirds.
Criterion 6: A wetland should be considered internationally important if it regularly supports 1% of the individuals in a population of one species or subspecies of waterbird.
The staging criteria as applied under the Asia- Pacific Migratory Waterbird Conservation Strategy. That is:
A staging site should be considered internationally important if it regularly supports 0.25% of individuals in a population of one species or subspecies of waterbirds on migration.
A staging site should be considered internationally important if it regularly supports 5,000 or more waterbirds at one time during migration.
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Under exceptional circumstances a site can be nominated if it supports migratory waterbirds at a level or stage of their life cycle important to the maintenance of flyway populations. Justification of such nominations will be considered by the Partnership on a case by case basis.
Flyway Network Documentation - Cambodia
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Flyway Network Documentation - Chinese
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Flyway Network Documentation - English
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Flyway Network Documentation - Indonesian
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Flyway Network Documentation - Japanese
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Flyway Network Documentation - Korean
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Flyway Network Documentation - Mongolian
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Flyway Network Documentation - Russian
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Flyway Network Documentation - Thai
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