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Shorebirds ‘show us a barometer of global health’. Photograph: Mario Suarez Porras/2018 Bird Photographer of the Year
November 7, 2019
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Ultra-endurance athlete, aerodynamic wonder … and facing extinction. Why the bird who flies 30,000km a year needs Australia’s mudflats...For tens of thousands of years the eastern curlew has travelled on the east Asian-Australasian flyway to get here. Along with 55 other migratory species it passes through 22 countries along the way. The flyways – super highways – take birds to Africa, Europe, the Americas. 

 

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