Migration
What the Yellow Sea Mudflats Still Hold
Two decades of seawall construction took most of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway's critical staging habitat. What survived is now under intensive watch.
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Migration
The Bar-Tailed Godwit's Eleven-Day Flight
What a single juvenile godwit named B6 told a research team about the absolute limits of non-stop migration.
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The International Shorebird Survey: Volunteers Counting at the Tideline
Since 1974, an unusual network of amateur counters has tracked the shorebirds that move between the Arctic and Patagonia. Inara Khan walks a count site at Plum Island.