Bird Migrations

Migrant waterbirds

Southern Oland's Ottenby Bird Observatory (migrating birds)

The massif of the Aïr also constitutes a transit zone for a large number of afrotropical and palaearctic migratory birds. (unesco website)

Seasonal Bird Migration "Many migratory birds come to Jeju Island because this island is in the courses of the migration of the birds." - Nomination File

The entire region is important for resting migratory Palaearctic birds. (UNEP-WCMC)

The Parks are on the margins of two major avian migratory routes, the Central and Pacific flyways and their marshes and lakes are much used as staging grounds. The bald eagle and migrant peregrine falcon pass through. (UNEP-WCMC)

Bar-headed geese and brown-headed gulls migrate to the lakes in the Tajik NP during summer

The African-Eurasian Flyway

The African-Eurasian Flyway; OUV: The Sajnakhali area, listed as an Important Bird Area, contains a wealth of waterfowl and is of high importance for migratory birds.

The African-Eurasian Flyway

The African-Eurasian Flyway

gathering of many migratory bird species that use the East Asian-Australasian flyway (AB ev)

OUV: The surrounding wetlands attract an extraordinary diversity and abundance of resident and migratory bird species with several hundreds of thousands of wintering birds (around Laguna de San lgnacio and Ojo de Liebre, Pacific Flyway)

The East Asian-Australasian Flyway

It is situated along a migration route for birds travelling a long distance between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. (Nomination text, p. 41)

Eastern Atlantic Migratory Flyway, Birds

OUV: The property is the essential stopover that enables the functioning of the East Atlantic and African-Eurasian migratory flyways.

East Atlantic Flyway (birds)

Important stopping-over point for hundreds of thousands of migrating birds each year

The Americas Flyway

The African-Eurasian Flyway: the park is a major breeding area and refuge for migratory waterfowl and waders (AB ev)

The African-Eurasian Flyway

The Americas Flyway

Eastern Asian-Australasian Flyway

"the nominated component parts together make up a series of significant stop over points for an important bird migratory route between Eurasia and Africa." (AB ev)

second most important wintering ground for Palaearctic migratory waders after the Banc d'Arguin (AB ev)

"Parts of the nominated property also play an important role as part of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway for migratory shorebirds." - IUCN Evaluation

OUV: The islands have the largest sea-bird colonies on the Chukchi Sea, are the northernmost nesting grounds for over 100 migratory bird species including several that are endangered such as the Peregrine falcon

The Americas Flyway: "Flyway Central The southern portion of the park features the Peace-Athabasca Delta, one of the largest inland freshwater deltas in the world. All four North American flyways converge over the delta each spring and fall. The last remaining flock of migratory whooping cranes nests in a remote corner of the boreal forest every summer."
See www.nationalgeographic.com

The Park has wetlands that lie under a major Palaeoarctic-Afrotropical flyway and between February and May over 20,000 aquatic birds congregate there. (UNEP-WCMC)

The African-Eurasian Flyway

The Americas Flyway

Bird migration route

OUV: The wetlands of Korgalzhyn and Naurzum State Nature Reserves are key stopover points and crossroads on the Central Asian migratory bird flyways and are of outstanding importance for migratory waterbirds on their way from Africa, Europe and South Asia to their breeding places in Western and Eastern Siberia.

The African-Eurasian Flyway

resting place for more than 3 million migrating birds within the East Asia - Australasian flyway (AB ev)

The waterfowl and shorebirds of Baikal Siberia migrate along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (Waterbirds Around the World, 2006)

OUV: wetland of international importance for migratory waterfowl, where birds migrating down the Central Asian flyway congregate before dispersing to other regions
See datazone.birdlife.org

"March to April is the most ideal time when bird migration into the park is at its peak and continues a bit until June/July when birds take care of their hatchlings."
See www.thainationalparks.com

"an important resting area for birds migrating between Russia and Africa" (wiki)

The lake is an important resting place for migratory birds

OUV: It provides important foraging and breeding habitat for more than 400 species of birds, includes the most significant breeding grounds for wading birds in North America and is a major corridor for migration. The Americas Flyway

birds such as the spot-billed pelican and greater adjutant migrate through the park
See datazone.birdlife.org

Eastern Atlantic Migratory Flyway, Birds

Eastern Atlantic Migratory Flyway, Birds

The Delta is the major wetland on the flyway between central and eastern Europe and the Mediterranean and Middle East and Africa (birds)

Birds migratory flyway from North Europe to the of South Europe. Rybatschi holds the oldest bird observatory in the world.

Kenozersky Biosphere Reserve in the Arkhangelsk Region in the northwest of the country includes virgin taiga forest and mixed pine-spruce forest ecosystems. The site is a globally important migratory bird habitat, and contains unique swamp and forest ecosystems. Kenozersky Biosphere Reserve "Kenozero National Park has been included in the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere programme since 2004. The nominated property, with unique swamp and forest ecosystems, is recognised as a globally important habitat for migratory birds." - AB Evaluation

The African-Eurasian Flyway

The site is a key stopover for many globally threatened birds that migrate through the Batumi bottleneck. (Official description)

Central and Pacific Flyway (birds)

The Americas Flyway

The Americas Flyway

OUV: of major importance for waterfowl, as well as a stepping stone in the bird migration between Siberia and wintering ranges in China and South Asia.

The African-Eurasian Flyway

... comprise the last stopover area for millions of migrating birds before entering the vast Arabian Desert. (Nom file) & a major stopover point for shorebirds flying along the West Asian-East African flyway (AB ev)