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Shorebirds of the Yellow Sea

Importance, threats and conservation status

Mark Barter
Wetlands International Global Series 9
International Wader Studies 12
Wetlands International, 2002
ISBN 90 5882 009 2

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Contents

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• Publication Details
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Summary
• Summary in Chinese
• Summary in Korean

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Shorebirds and the Conservation Challenge
  • 1.2 The East Asian-Australasian Shorebird Flyway and the Yellow Sea
  • 1.3 The Purpose and Contents of the Monograph

• 2. The Yellow Sea
  • 2.1 Location and Size
  • 2.2 Climate
  • 2.3 Rivers
  • 2.4 Intertidal Shorebird Habitat

• 3. Methods
  • 3.1 Survey Location, Frequency and Coverage
  • 3.2 Count Methods
  • 3.3 Count Accuracy
  • 3.4 Criteria for Identifying the Presence of Internationally Important Number of Species
  • 3.5 Determining the Importance of the Yellow Sea for Individual Species
  • 3.6 Abbreviation Used in the Species and Site Accounts

• 4. Shorebirds Occurring in Internationally Important Numbers at Yellow Sea Sites
  • 4.1 Organisations of Species Accounts
  • 4.2 Major Sources of Informations for the Species Accounts
    • 4.2.1 Subspecies and distribution
    • 4.2.2 Yellow Sea count and migration information
  • 4.3 Species Accounts Summary
    • 4.3.1 Introduction
    • 4.3.2 Usage of the Yellow Sea
    • 4.3.3 Importance of the Yellow Sea
    • 4.3.4 "Missing" and undercounted species
  • 4.4 Species Accounts
    • 4.4.1 Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa
    • 4.4.2 Bar-tailed Godwit Limosa lapponica
    • 4.4.3 Little Curlew Numenius minutus
    • 4.4.4 Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
    • 4.4.5 Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata
    • 4.4.6 Eastern Curlew Numenius madagascariensis
    • 4.4.7 Spotted Redshank Tringa erythropus
    • 4.4.8 Common Redshank Tringa totanus
    • 4.4.9 Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
    • 4.4.10 Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
    • 4.4.11 Spotted Greenshank Tringa guttifer
    • 4.4.12 Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
    • 4.4.13 Grey-tailed Tattler Heteroscelus brevipes
    • 4.4.14 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
    • 4.4.15 Asian Dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus
    • 4.4.16 Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris
    • 4.4.17 Red Knot Calidris canutus
    • 4.4.18 Sanderling Calidris alba
    • 4.4.19 Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
    • 4.4.20 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata
    • 4.4.21 Dunlin Calidris alpina
    • 4.4.22 Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
    • 4.4.23 Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus
    • 4.4.24 Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus
    • 4.4.25 Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
    • 4.4.26 Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus
    • 4.4.27 Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus
    • 4.4.28 Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
    • 4.4.29 Grey-headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus
    • 4.4.30 Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
    • 4.4.31 Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola
    • 4.4.32 Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus
    • 4.4.33 Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius
    • 4.4.34 Lesser Sand Plover Charadrius mongolus
    • 4.4.35 Oriental Plover Charadrius veredus
    • 4.4.36 Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum

• 5. Internationally Important Shorebird Sites in the Yellow Sea
  • 5.1 Organisation of Site Accounts
  • 5.2 Site Accounts Summary
  • 5.3 Site Accounts
    • 5.3.1 Jiu Duan Sha
    • 5.3.2 Chongming Dao Provincial Nature Reserve
    • 5.3.3 Dong Sha
    • 5.3.4 Yancheng National Nature Reserve
    • 5.3.5 Huang He National Nature Reserve
    • 5.3.6 Tianjin Municipality
    • 5.3.7 Shi Jiu Tuo (Happy Island)
    • 5.3.8 Linghekou
    • 5.3.9 Shuangtaizihekou National Nature Reserve
    • 5.3.10 Yalu Jiang National Nature Reserve
    • 5.3.11 Mundok Migratory Bird Wetland Reserve
    • 5.3.12 Ganghwa Do
    • 5.3.13 Yeong Jong Do
    • 5.3.14 Daebu Do
    • 5.3.15 Namyang Man
    • 5.3.16 Hongwon Ri
    • 5.3.17 Asan Man
    • 5.3.18 Seosan Reclaimed Area
    • 5.3.19 Geum Gang Hagu
    • 5.3.20 Mangyeung Gang Hagu
    • 5.3.21 Tongjin Gang Hagu
    • 5.3.22 Paeksu Tidal Flat
    • 5.3.23 Hampyeong Man
    • 5.3.24 Meian Gun Tidal Flat
    • 5.3.25 Aphae Do
    • 5.3.26 Suncheon Man
    • 5.3.27 Nakdong Gang Hagu
  • 5.4 Other Potentially Important Shorebird Sites in the Yellow Sea

• 6. Threats to Shorebirds
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Nature of Threats
    • 6.2.1 Habitat loss and alteration
    • 6.2.2 Reduced river flows
    • 6.2.3 Pollution
    • 6.2.4 Human disturbance and competition
    • 6.2.5 Hunting
  • 6.3 Adverse Effects of Threats on Shorebirds

• 7. Conservation of Shorebirds and their Habitats in the Yellow Sea
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Conservation Situation in China
    • 7.2.1 Sources of information
    • 7.2.2 Situation
  • 7.3 Conservation Situation in North Korea
    • 7.3.1 Sources of information
    • 7.3.2 Situation
  • 7.4 Conservation Situation in South Korea
    • 7.4.1 Sources of information
    • 7.4.2 Situation
  • 7.5 Habitat Conservation in Coastal Protected Area
  • 7.6 Synthesis
  • 7.7 An Ecoregion Approach to Conservation
    • 7.7.1 Background
    • 7.7.2 An ecoregion based approach to conservation of Yellow Sea biodiversity

• 8. References

• 9. Additional Reading

• Additional Information
  • Wetland International's Specialist Groups
  • International Wader Study Group
  • International Wader Studies

Tables

• Table 1 Data on important rivers flowing into the Yellow Sea, ranked by annual silt discharge
• Table 2 The 1% criteria used to identify internationally important sites for shorebirds
• Table 3. Species ranked according to the number of sites at which they occur in internationally important numbers, with details on seasonality.
• Table 4 Species occurring in concentrations >20%, >10% and >5% of their estimated flyway population and the sites at which they occur on a seasonal basis
• Table 5 Proportion of the breeding populations supported by the Yellow Sea during northward migration
• Table 6 Sites ranked according to the number of internationally important shorebird species supported and their highest seasonal counts
• Table 7 Sites supporting >20%, >10% and >5% of an estimated shorebird flyway population during northward migration, southward migration or the non-breeding season
• Table 8 Coastal Protected Areas in the Yellow Sea

Figures

• Figure 1 East Asian-Australasian Flyway
• Figure 2 The Yellow Sea: location, national boundaries, constituent parts, major cities and rivers
• Figure 3 Main intertidal areas (km²) and selected average tidal ranges in the Yellow Sea
• Figure 4 Locations of the major sites surveyed in South Korea
• Figure 5 Extent of shorebird surveys in China
• Figure 6 Locations of the sites in the Yellow Sea at which internationally important numbers of at least one species of shorebird have been recorded
• Figure 7 Locations of coastal Protected Areas in the Yellow Sea

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