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Contents

• 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. 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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