1) Mom knows this is the age-old call for a mate, but she' s also certain that 60 miles west of the Atlantic Flyway is too big a distance for the call to be heard.

2) Yet the physical changes that go with affluence destroy the habitats of migratory shorebirds and seabirds, wreaking havoc on their numbers along the crucial East Asian-Australasian flyway.

3) Nigeria is one of several African countries located on the Black Sea-Mediterranean flyway used by migratory birds.

4) "The Gulf of Mexico is like Grand Central Station for the birds of the eastern United States and especially the Mississippi Flyway, " said Audubon President Frank Gill.

5) In 2010 Joe visited 14 countries, co-founded a company in China specializing in sustainable lifestyles, co-created and presented a TVshow on the subject called Eco-Nation Super Flyway.

6) With the support from BirdLife Asia Division, the symposium will also review the Action Plan for future conservation of the Black-faced Spoonbill, and among their habitats along the flyway.

7) Conservationists hope to replicate the walking-wetlands concept throughout the flyway and around the world to help arrest declining shorebird populations.