The East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) stretches from central Siberia to Alaska, down through Asia and across the Pacific to Australia and New Zealand. Holding around 7 million shorebirds, it is one of the smaller of the world’s major flyways, but is poorly known and highly threatened through reclamation on the staging grounds. This site highlights the research into the biology of migratory shorebirds being undertaken at the southern end of the flyway, in New Zealand.

This is the personal site of Phil Battley, and its focus is on Northern Hemisphere migrants rather than New Zealand's indigenous breeding shorebirds. Please use the links on the left-hand side to navigate around the site. If you have comments or suggestions about this site, please contact me:

Phil Battley
Ecology Group
Massey University
Private Bag 11-222
Palmerston North
New Zealand

Email: p.battley@massey.ac.nz
Phone +64 6 356 9099 ext 2605
Fax +64 6 350 5623

Recent updates

New shorebird satellite-tracking website!

Australasian Shorebird Conference 2007

Saemangeum Survey results 2006