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Invisible Connections

Why migrating shorebirds need the Yellow Sea
Language(s): English, Chinese , Contact person: , Author(s): van de Kam, J., P.F. Battley, B.J. McCaffery, D.I. Rogers, Jae-Sang , Date of Publication: 2008 , ISBN: 978-90-5882-009-9

This book and its wonderful photographs by Jan van de Kam bring to life the dramatic journeys of migratory shorebirds in the East Asian – Australasian Flyway, the importance of their staging sites and the need for international cooperation to maintain this cycle. "Invisible Connections" is a wonderful photographic journey that follows the migration of shorebirds flying from their breeding grounds in the Arctic through East Asia to Australasia. It highlights one of nature's most spectacular phenomena and reveals the surprising and little-known connections that exist between countries, habitats and people through this migration.

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