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World Migratory Bird Day 2021 May Event– Australia (The Overwintering Project)
Event title: Stories of Home Date: 8th May, 2021 Participants: 12-20 members of the local youth communities (aged 14-18) with migrant or Indigenous backgrounds, 200 participants of School students, teachers, and parents, 50 childrens Summary: Between March 6 and May 23, 2021, the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery exhibited the Overwintering Project: Westernport. The exhibition focussed […]
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Getting Getbol (intertidal mudflats) of the Republic of Korea into World Natural Heritage Site inscription
The West/Yellow Sea, lies at the heart of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, a migratory route for 50 million migratory waterbirds traverse on an annual basis which stretches from Russia Far East and Alaska, U.S.A. south to Australia and New Zealand covering 22 countries. This region is surrounded by three countries: The People’s Republic of […]
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Partners
The EAAF Partnership is made up of National Governments, International Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) and Inter-Governmental Organisations, that agree to endorse the text and supporting the objectives and actions under this Partnership. Membership is open to other Governments, International NGOs, Inter-Government organisations and members of the international business sector upon application and agreeing to endorse the […]
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EAAFP Sites
The East Asian–Australasian Flyway is one of the major flyways in the world which is home for approximately 50 million migratory waterbird species that rely on the wetland habitats. The Flyway stretches from Arctic Russia and Alaska of U.S.A., through East Asia and Southeast Asia, down to Australia and New Zealand. The EAAFP established the […]
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EAAFP Species Flyers
Species Factsheet (2021) Here are species factsheets of Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Saunders’s Gull, Black-faced Spoonbill, Bar-tailed Godwit, Far Eastern Curlew, Dalmatian Pelican, Scaly-sided Merganser, and Baer’s Pochard. Upon request, the design file of the flyer can be sent to share and customize for local language version. Please contact communication@eaaflyway.net for the design template files for translation. […]
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“Flyway: connecting people and migratory waterbirds” story series #8 – Mr. Pete Probasco, Immediate Past Chair of EAAFP
In the first Flyway story series in 2021, the Secretariat is honored to feature Mr. Pete Probasco. Until January 2021, Pete was the Chair of EAAFP and Representative of U.S.A. Pete has over 40 years of experiences of management on wetland-related work, especially in fisheries. In the past seven years, he had served the EAAFP […]
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Researchers discover how migratory shorebirds travelling from Southeast Asia cross the Himalayas to breeding grounds in China and Russia
Singapore revealed to be at the intersection of the Central Asian Flyway and East Asian-Australasian Flyway These new insights give researchers, policymakers and conservation biologists a more robust understanding of migratory shorebird ecology in Southeast Asia Researchers at the National Parks Board (NParks) have demonstrated, for the first time, how migratory shorebirds cross the Himalayas […]
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Results of the 2020 #LegflagChallenge Photo Contest
A novel photographic competition to get citizen scientists to spot migratory waterbirds and help their conservation. The results of the 2020 #LegflagChallenge Photo Contest is now out! Nearly 120 images of tagged waterbirds were submitted by birdwatchers and photographers from 11 countries across the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. The “Best Photo of tagged Waterbirds” winner is […]
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2020 World Migratory Bird Day #LegflagChallenge Photo Contest
#legflagChallenge Photo Contest The #LegflagChallenge Photo Contest aims to encourage birdwatchers, bird photographers and all kinds of citizen scientists to document and report sightings of waterbirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway that carry leg flags, tags and other types of attachments. Birds carrying these leg flags and tags provide crucial information about their life histories […]
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