Shorebird Migration
Use of Leg Flags in the Flyway
* Report a Leg Flag sighting *
* Contacts *
* Dunlin Migration Project *
At the 5th Conference of the Parties to the Ramsar Convention held in Kushiro in 1993 it was recognised that habitats for shorebirds in East Asia were rapidly being lost.
This is particularly important for migratory shorebirds because they need a chain of wetlands to rest and feed at during migration. To find out more about these important "staging" sites, researchers have commenced a program to mark shorebirds with small coloured leg flags.
But we need your help to uncover this chain of important sites that span from Australia and New Zealand to the Russian Far East and Alaska for migrating shorebirds.