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Shorebirds: waders of the flyways, and the flats they need
Waders on migration, and the intertidal sites that make the journey possible. Most of this concerns the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, where the refuelling stops are the limiting factor rather than the breeding or wintering grounds.
- Identifying claimed Spoon-billed Sandpipers
The bill shape that names the species is invisible from most angles. What separates a Spoon-billed Sandpiper from a Red-necked Stint in a large flock.
- Invisible Connections: shorebirds and the Yellow Sea
Wetlands International's trilingual photographic account of the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, and why publishing it in Korean and Chinese was the point.
- Saemangeum: what happens when a staging site is walled off
A 33km sea wall closed in 2006 and enclosed over 40,000 hectares of tidal flat. What the monitoring showed, and why it defines the Yellow Sea argument.
- Testing shorebirds for avian influenza without harming them
Surveillance sampling means catching wild birds. How they are held between capture and release decides the welfare outcome and whether the data is usable.
Notesshort entries, not full articles
- Mark Barter and the counting of the Yellow Sea
An Australian shorebird researcher who established, by survey, not argument, how much of the East Asian flyway depended on the Yellow Sea.