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The AEWA - The Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds - is an independent international treaty developed under the auspices of the UNEP/Convention on Migratory Species. It was concluded on 16 June 1995 in the Hague, the Netherlands and entered into force on 1 November 1999 after the required number of at least fourteen Range States, comprising seven from Africa and seven from Eurasia, had ratified it.

The AEWA covers 235 species of birds ecologically dependent on wetlands for at least part of their annual cycle, including many species of divers, grebes, pelicans, cormorants, herons, storks, rails, ibises, spoonbills, flamingos, ducks, swans, geese, cranes, waders, gulls, terns and even the south African penguin.

The agreement covers 119 countries from Europe, parts of Asia and Canada, the Middle East and Africa. The Agreement provides for coordinated and concerted action to be taken by the Range States throughout the migration system ('flyways') of waterbirds to which it applies. Of the 119 Range States, 58 countries have become a Contracting Party to AEWA as of 1 November 2006.

Parties to the Agreement are called upon to engage in a wide range of conservation actions which are described in a comprehensive Action Plan. This detailed plan addresses such key issues as: species and habitat conservation, management of human activities, research and monitoring, education and information, and implementation.

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The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (also known as CMS or the Bonn Convention ) aims to conserve terrestrial, marine and avian migratory species throughout their range.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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In physical geography, a wetland is an environment "at the interface between truly terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic systems making them inherently
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Ardeidae
Leach, 1820

Genera

See text.

The herons are wading birds in the Ardeidae family. Some are called egrets or bitterns instead of herons.
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Ciconiidae
Gray, 1840

Genera

See text.
Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long stout bills, belonging to the family Ciconiidae.
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Rallidae
Vigors, 1825

Genera

some 40 living, and see text.

The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds.
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Plateinae

Genera and Species

See text.

Spoonbills are a group of large, long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, which also includes the Ibises.
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Phoenicopteriformes
Fürbringer, 1888

Family: Phoenicopteridae
Bonaparte, 1831

Genus: Phoenicopterus
Linnaeus, 1758

Flamingos (
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Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. The ducks are divided between several subfamilies listed in full in the Anatidae article. Ducks are mostly aquatic birds, mostly smaller than their relatives the swans and geese, and may be found in
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Cygnus
Bechstein, 1803

Species

6-7 living, see text.
Synonyms

Cygnanser Kretzoi, 1957

Swans are large water birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and ducks.
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Goose (plural geese, male gander(s)) is the English name for a considerable number of birds, belonging to the family Anatidae. This family also includes swans, most of which are larger than geese, and ducks, which are smaller.
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Gruidae
Vigors, 1825

Genera
  • Grus
  • Anthropoides
  • Balearica
  • Bugeranus


Cranes are large, long-legged and long-necked birds of the order Gruiformes, and family Gruidae.
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Charadrii

Families
  • Ibidorhynchidae
  • Recurvirostridae
  • Haematopodidae
  • Charadriidae
Waders, called shorebirds in North America (where "wader" is used to refer to long-legged wading birds such as storks and herons), are members
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Laridae
Vigors, 1825

Genera

Larus
Rissa
Pagophila
Rhodostethia
Xema
Creagus

Gulls are birds in the family Laridae.
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Sternidae
Bonaparte, 1838

Genera
  • Anous
  • Procelsterna
  • Gygis
  • Onychoprion
  • Sternula
  • Phaetusa
  • Hydroprogne
  • Gelochelidon

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S. demersus

Binomial name
Spheniscus demersus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus), also known as the Blackfooted Penguin (and formerly as the
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Flyway is the term for the flight paths used in bird migration. Flyways generally span over continents and often oceans.

See also

  • Bird migration
  • Atlantic Flyway
  • Central Flyway
  • East Asian - Australasian Flyway
  • Mississippi Flyway

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