Bird Migrations
WHS that are key stopover sites for birds on one of the major flyways.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Ahwar of Southern Iraq | ... 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) | |
| Air and Téneré | The massif of the Aïr also constitutes a transit zone for a large number of afrotropical and palaearctic migratory birds. (unesco website) | |
| Amami-Oshima Island | It is situated along a migration route for birds travelling a long distance between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. (Nomination text, p. 41) | |
| Banc d'Arguin | Eastern Atlantic Migratory Flyway, Birds | |
| Belize Barrier Reef | The Americas Flyway | |
| Blue and John Crow Mountains | The Americas Flyway | |
| Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks | Central and Pacific Flyway (birds) | |
| Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands | The site is a key stopover for many globally threatened birds that migrate through the Batumi bottleneck. (Official description) | |
| Cold winter deserts of Turan | "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) | |
| Comoé National Park | The African-Eurasian Flyway | |
| Cultural Landscape of Kenozero Lake | 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 | |
| Curonian Spit | Birds migratory flyway from North Europe to the of South Europe. Rybatschi holds the oldest bird observatory in the world. | |
| Danube Delta | The Delta is the major wetland on the flyway between central and eastern Europe and the Mediterranean and Middle East and Africa (birds) | |
| Djoudj | Eastern Atlantic Migratory Flyway, Birds | |
| Donana National Park | Eastern Atlantic Migratory Flyway, Birds | |
| Dong Phayayen | birds such as the spot-billed pelican and greater adjutant migrate through the park | |
| Everglades | 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 | |
| Fertö/Neusiedlersee | The lake is an important resting place for migratory birds | |
| Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats | Eastern Asian-Australasian Flyway | |
| Gulf of California | The Americas Flyway | |
| Hyrcanian Forests | "an important resting area for birds migrating between Russia and Africa" (wiki) | |
| Ibiza | The African-Eurasian Flyway | |
| Ichkeul National Park | Important stopping-over point for hundreds of thousands of migrating birds each year | |
| Jeju | 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 | |
| Kaeng Krachan Forest | "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." | |
| Kaziranga National Park | The African-Eurasian Flyway | |
| Kenya Lake System | The African-Eurasian Flyway | |
| Keoladeo National Park | OUV: wetland of international importance for migratory waterfowl, where birds migrating down the Central Asian flyway congregate before dispersing to other regions | |
| Lake Baikal | The waterfowl and shorebirds of Baikal Siberia migrate along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (Waterbirds Around the World, 2006) | |
| Lake Turkana | Migrant waterbirds | |
| Landscapes of Dauria | resting place for more than 3 million migrating birds within the East Asia - Australasian flyway (AB ev) | |
| Migratory Bird Sanctuaries China | gathering of many migratory bird species that use the East Asian-Australasian flyway (AB ev) | |
| Okavango Delta | The African-Eurasian Flyway | |
| Pantanal | The Americas Flyway | |
| Saloum Delta | East Atlantic Flyway (birds) | |
| Sanganeb | The African-Eurasian Flyway | |
| Saryarka | 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. | |
| Shiretoko | The East Asian-Australasian Flyway | |
| Southern Öland | Southern Oland's Ottenby Bird Observatory (migrating birds) | |
| Srebarna Nature Reserve | Bird migration route | |
| Sundarbans National Park | 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. | |
| Tajik National Park | Bar-headed geese and brown-headed gulls migrate to the lakes in the Tajik NP during summer | |
| Tassili n'Ajjer | The entire region is important for resting migratory Palaearctic birds. (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| The Sundarbans | The African-Eurasian Flyway | |
| Tikal National Park | The Americas Flyway | |
| Uvs Nuur Basin | 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. | |
| Virunga National Park | The African-Eurasian Flyway | |
| W-Arly-Pendjari Complex | 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) | |
| Wadden Sea | OUV: The property is the essential stopover that enables the functioning of the East Atlantic and African-Eurasian migratory flyways. | |
| Waterton Glacier International Peace Park | 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) | |
| Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino | 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) | |
| Wood Buffalo National Park | 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." | |
| Wrangel Island | 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 | |
| iSimangaliso Wetland Park | The African-Eurasian Flyway: the park is a major breeding area and refuge for migratory waterfowl and waders (AB ev) |
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