The Global Flyway Network (GFN) is a non-profit foundation that seeks to foster and strengthen partnerships between researchers studying the demography and movement ecology of migrant shorebirds across the world. This website provides the latest news about the research conducted by our partners, and enables professionals and laypeople to explore the movements of individually tracked shorebirds.
Using the menu on the left, or scrolling down this page, you can explore tracking data for specific species, projects, flyways, or within a certain radius of your current or a selected location. Please bear with us as we are constantly working to expand and improve our services.
The development of the GFN (website) is led by the BirdEyes Institute for Global Ecological Change of the University of Groningen. more
Latest news
Bohai Report 2024
Most of the Yellow Sea intertidal mudflats are critical feeding areas for migratory shorebirds on their journeys to and from their breeding and non- breeding grounds. The areas used by migratory shorebirds are referred to as ‘stop-over sites’ (sites used mainly for a ‘pit-stop’, a rest) or ‘staging sites’ (sites used for more than a few days for serious refuelling). B...
Bohai Bay 2024 Update 3
And before you know it it’s all over. I am back in Broome; Kath is on her way to Chongming Dao today and the Liu’s have jobs and kids/grandkids to keep them busy! So, we have said our goodbyes to the Nanpu seawall and the birds for 2024. We wish them well on the rest of their journey to breed and back to their non-breeding grounds where we hope to encounter them again.
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Bohai Bay 2024 Update 2
As all our regular readers will know we are here to focus on Red Knots. No bird, carrying a mark, passes our telescopes without being recorded but undoubtedly Red Knots remain our focus.
Three subspecies occur in the EAAF but one of them, roselaari only occurs as a breeding bird on the Wrangel Islands. Roselaari’s main non-breeding area is the Pacific coast of California and Mexico....
Bohai Bay 2024 Update 1
Well, that’s a nice title to write after 5 years. I am back on the Luannan Coast with our work once again centred on the mudflats of Nanpu. Of course, we have had our colleague Katherine Leung keeping everything going in 2020, 21, and 23. And our excellent drivers and scanners Liu Jianfeng and Liu Yang who managed the work alone in 2022. The field team this year for the scanning is Kat...
Recherche sur les limicoles du Banc d’Arguin, Mauritanie
Dans ce rapport nous décrirons les expéditions du NIOZ au Parc National du Banc d’Arguin en 2023. Cette année, nous avons effectué trois visites au Parc National pour nos travaux sur les limicoles. L'objectif principal de la première expédition était de capturer des bécasseaux maubèche pour les équiper de émetteurs (satellites). Nous avons utilisé différents types de émet...
Grutto landschap project: Jaarverslag 2023
De landbouw in Nederland staat voor een grote uitdaging: het produceren van genoeg, veilig en gezond voedsel zonder dat dit ten koste gaat van de leefbaarheid op het platteland voor plant, mens en dier. En zonder dat het de planeet in bredere zin zwaar belast. Een veelgehoorde en serieuze oplossingsrichting is om het bedrijfsmodel weer te baseren op korte kringlopen en natuurlijke proces...
TAGGING 2023, BROOME, AUSTRALIA
Usually, the acknowledgements section goes at the end of the report.
Here in Broome the work that happens would never happen without the input of the volunteer team and therefore to us it makes sense to put those volunteers front and centre. The team for Tagging2023 was a mix of volunteer and professionals and here we thank them all.
Adrian Boyle, Charlotte Burgoyne, Dianne Bennett, Fr...
Tweet @GlobalFlyway - Jun 20, 2023 12:55
Bird eyes & ears: is it a virtue to see & hear attentively, thus sense the state of the world around us; & then speak about it?
We think so, as explained in editorial to #SAHEL-special of @ArdeaJournal with Foreword of @ibrahimthiaw.
"Ground-truthed baseline to Great #GreenWall" https://t.co/pKV0BzLPNP https://t.co/PSsS4rdbJ1
Tweet @GlobalFlyway - Jun 20, 2023 12:37
#SAHEL-special is forworded by @ibrahimthiaw, who grew up here & saw: "how nature could suddenly shift from healthy – full of trees & birds – into barren landscapes."
"I hope that today’s young Sahelians will get to experience the beauty & bounty of this harsh yet hopeful land." https://t.co/9bwfrz3xuO https://t.co/m5tMUIeDsG
Tweet @GlobalFlyway - Jun 20, 2023 12:19
YES! Some of us were lucky enough to receive copies of mighty #SAHEL-special of @ArdeaJournal with >400 pages packed with information on trees & birds & people across the entire zone! Subscribers to @ArdeaJournal will follow soon. Amazing achievement of Zwarts team! @ibrahimthiaw https://t.co/7YflpombaG
Tweet @GlobalFlyway - Jun 20, 2023 09:24
@Ben_Sheldon_EGI @VeenVitaal @RoelandBom @RuthHowison @SisselSjoberg @CampusFryslan @univgroningen @projectgodwit @ParcDiawling @prcmarine @HacenElHacen @BirdLife_Sci It did! Have a look at https://t.co/0k3EIuDNby to see the many tagged black-tailed #godwits that are already underway, many of them failed breeders!
Tweet @GlobalFlyway - Jun 20, 2023 09:16
Black-tailegd #godwit OVERVEEN, tagged by @VeenVitaal, gave away marvels of #migration during #flight from SW Netherlands to Senegal delta. @RoelandBom's quick analysis shows brief stops in Oléron & Donana and daytime climbs to #altitudes of 4-6 km, flying v high across #Sahara! https://t.co/eIcN8yNoUK https://t.co/7Az6WST6y6
Projects with tracks (view projects on map)
Bar-tailed Godwit migration, New Zealand
38339 deployed locations
Determine how godwits use the Yellow Sea region on northward migration in the face of habitat degradation and catastrophic food supply loss. This is a collaboration involving the Global Flyway Network, Birds NZ, Massey University and Birds Canada.
read more ↓Black-tailed godwits NL South Holland
5198 deployed locations
In nature reserve De Nesse and Berkenwoude of Zuid-Hollands Landschaps and agricultural area management by Agrarisch Collectief Krimpenerwaard measures were taken to improve the habitat of waders, such as the black-tailed godwits. Previous studies show that the number of waders increase, however do they also succeed in raising chicks successfully? By tracking families we will be able to determine the breeding success, but most importantly learn more about the habitat use during the chick phase.
read more ↓WWF-Hong Kong migratory bird tracking
19283 deployed locations
WWF-Hong Kong believes as problems grow in scale and complexity, we need future solutions and a creative multi-pronged approach to secure the future of wetlands and the iconic species that depend on it. With generous donation from HSBC, WWF-Hong Kong has launched the Wetland Incubator project to find conservation solutions for future thriving flyways. We aim at using tracking devices as a tool to investigate migration of shorebird species in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. To learn more about project: https://www.wwf.org.hk/en/wetlands/mai-po/wetland_incubator/
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