For #WorldMigratoryBirdDay here is action @BirdLife_News @BonnConvention & friends just agreed at the #FlywaysSummit to stop illegal killing, minimise energy sector impacts, save coastal wetlands, Vultures, Bustards, Sakers, including by capacity building http://bit.ly/2IxTM8W

Excellent closing remarks of #FlywaysSummit from @BradneeChambers Executive Secretary of @BonnConvention whose #CMSCOP12 in Manila in October 2017 provided the intergovernmental commitments on action for migratory birds this meeting was set up to help implement. #ornithology

FANTASTIC NEWS FOR MIGRATORY BIRDS! Donors at #FlywaysSummit announced they will build and expand an alliance, convened by BirdLife International, to bring additional resources to global flyway conservation and use birds as ambassadors of biodiversity &human wellbeing. @NFWFnews

@BirdLife_News CEO announces the formation of a donor alliance for bird conservation at the first ever Global Summit for Flyways. Exciting development for the world’s birds and biodiversity! #FlywaysSummit

Outcomes of the inspiring #FlywaysSummit session on capacity building for flyway conservation presented by session leader Kiragu Mwangi @Kirash_ma.

Outcomes of the productive #FlywaysSummit session on illegal killing of birds presented by the session Chair, Olivier Biber (Chair of the @BonnConvention African-Eurasian Migratory Landbird Working Group)

Roger Safford from @BirdLife_News reports back on discussions on the conservation of vultures at our Global Summit on Flyways. #FlywaysSummit

And this is one of the big problems for bustards: they are incredibly vulnerable to collisions with powerlines. Big, heavy, slow-flying birds that can't see straight ahead when flying. Need to re-route, bury or add markers to lines to avoid this. #FlywaysSummit

This is why we are discussing conservation of bustards at a Global Summit on Flyways in Abu Dhabi - 60% of species are of conservation concern and many are declining frighteningly fast #FlywaysSummit Pic by wildventures

Sergei Golovkin of Bern Convention inspires the #FlywaysSummit reporting on the visionary scoreboard which Parties of the CMS Task Force to end Mediterranean Illegal Killing, Taking and Trade of birds are using to assess national progress towards target of zero illegal killing

Rob Sheldon of OSME presents results of collaboration with @BirdLife_News to assess scale of illegal killing of birds in Arabian peninsula. Part of the first ever global #FlywaysSummit

Full house for #FlywaysSummit session on bringing an end to the illegal killing/hunting of migratory birds with opening remarks from Borja Heredia of @BonnConvention. #ornithology

Jens Enemark, father of Wadden Sea Trilateral Cooperation & Flyway Initiative inspires #FlywaysSummit re benefits for birds & people of coastal wetland World Heritage Sites including sharing experience inter & intra flyways. Migratory birds powerful global cooperation ambassadors

Lei Guangchun tells the #FlywaysSummit of China's astonishingly impressive new coastal wetland conservation regulations & announces the FANTASTIC news that the Phase I Yellow Sea World Heritage Site (Yancheng) will be extended to include Tiaozini and Dongsha before inscription!!

Ibrahim Khader of @birdlife_me outlines to the #FlywaysSummit the urgent need for a Situation Analysis of the Arabian coasts, which along with the Yellow Sea are apparently the most threatened coastal wetlands in the world. Even key waterbird site Barr al Hikman, is under threat

At the #FlywaysSummit @TaejMundkur of @WetlandsInt outlines the intergovernmental mandate to date, calling for global concerted action for coastal wetlands including via a Global Coastal Forum.

Theunis Piersma wows #FlywaysSummit with findings of @GlobalFlyway satellite tracking of bar-tailed godwits & great knots. Most East Asian Australasian Flyway sites used by tagged great knots unknown let alone unprotected. Funding urgently needed for this vital work. #ornithology

Packed room for #FlywaysSummit session on conserving coastal wetlands for migratory waterbirds. Inspiring introductions from @BirdLife_CEO, @BradneeChambers @martharojasu1 including calls for a global movement for coastal conservation (42% of Ramsar Sites have coastal wetlands).