“The Luannan Coast is an important staging site of international significance for two subspecies of Red Knot in the EAAF . ”This is the statement we emphasize in our report every year. It probably sounds like the “same old story” when you just read the sentence, scanning in the field everyday we feel this statement is so true. Not only for the fact that we can find marked Red Knot of the two subspecies from at least 15 banding sites along the EAAF (plus India in the Central Asian Flyway), as the season goes by, we see both subspecies of the Knots become fatter and prettier (also more “vocal” , all getting ready for their next leg of migration.