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temporal insights into the distribution patterns ofmigratory birds, which are essential for the design of species-specific conservation plans, habitat restoration and protected area management; this information is challenging to obtain through traditional survey methods. Importantly, the Locally led East Asian Flyway Acoustics network will con- nect local initiatives across a hemispheric scale, enhancing our understanding of migratory bird ecology and drawing greater attention to the Flyway.


The Locally led East Asian Flyway Acoustics network recently launched a website and blog that can be used to monitor progress (birds.cornell.edu/ccb/locally-led-east- asian-flyway-acoustics-leafa). The project is co-organized by BISA Indonesia, Universiti of Malaysia Terengganu, and the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics. Initial funding for this project comes with generous support from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology through the H. Elliot McClure Fund for the Research and Conservation of Birds in Asia.


AINI HASANAH BINTI ABDMUTALIB1 (a.hasanah@umt.edu.my),


NORAMIRAABDULRAHMAN2,3 ,ANAGABRIELLE C.ALCANTARA4 , NURMUNIRA AZMAN5 ,DENA JANE CLINK3 , DEAN G. GANGKO6,7 ,CIPTO DWI HANDONO8 ,JEROME CHIE-JEN KO9 ,YEN YI LOO10 ,IZEREENMUKRI11,12 , NOR ATIQAH NORAZLIMI13 ,ASMAN ADI PURWANTO14 , ALEXANDER KURNIAWAN SARIYANTO PUTERA15,16 , ASHAKUR RAHAMAN3,RAGIL S. RIHADINI17,SINEANG SAN18, JOHN ARIES G. TABORA19 ,HERI TARMIZI20,SHIH-HUNGWU9 , PRAMANA YUDA21 ,MAGDALENA PUTRI NUGRAHANI22 and


ASHRAFT SYAZWAN AHMADY YUSNI3,6 1Institute of Tropical Biodiversity and SustainableDevelopment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia. 2Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. 3K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of


Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. 4Institute of Biology, College of Science, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines. 5Center of Biodiversity and Conservation (CeBEC), Faculty of Science and Mathematics,


Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, TanhongMalim,Malaysia. 6Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah,Malaysia. 7Malaysian


Nature Society Sabah Branch,KotaKinabalu, Sabah,Malaysia. 8EKSAI Foundation, Surabaya, East Java Province, Indonesia. 9Taiwan Biodiversity Research Institute, Nantou, Taiwan. 10Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, Sunway University,


Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. 11Urban Biodiversity Unit, Sustainability Department, Sime Darby Property Berhad, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. 12Conservation and Research


Unit,Malayan Rainforest Station, Lipis, Pahang,Malaysia. 13Environmental Management and Conservation Research Unit, Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (Pagoh Campus), KM1 Jalan


Panchor, Muar, Johor,Malaysia. 14BISA Indonesia, Yogyakarta Special Region, Java, Indonesia. 15Biology Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education,


Universitas Sulawesi Barat,Majene,West Sulawesi, Indonesia. 16Center for Ecology, Conservation and Ethnobiology Studies,


Universitas Sulawesi Barat,Majene,West Sulawesi, Indonesia. 17EKSAI Foundation, Surabaya, East Java Province, Indonesia. 18NatureLife Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 19Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern


Mindanao, Kabacan, Cotabato, Philippines. 20KSLH-Aceh, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. 21Fakultas Teknobiologi, Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 22Biology Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 Banyuwangi, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia


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Newhabitats for birds: rapid population growth and new breeding species in Poland


Recent efforts to create artificial islands in the Szczecin Lagoon in the Oder estuary, Poland, demonstrate that appropriate environmental management can promote the expansion and stabilization of bird populations. These islands, created during a project to deepen the waterway to the port of Szczecin, have seen a dramatic increase in breeding birds, including species that are new to Poland. The number of breeding birds on the islands increased


from 185 pairs in 2021 to nearly 5,000 pairs in 2024. This increase underscores the effectiveness of protecting early successional stages of vegetation on newly estab- lished habitats. Among the most notable achievements is the first recorded breeding of the Caspian tern Hydroprogne caspia in Poland, with an incubating bird observed on 7 June 2024, marking the southernmost breeding site for this Baltic population. Other bird species that have benefited from habitat con-


ditions on the islands include the black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus, a species previously uncommon in this region that has begun to expand from the south, and the pied avocet Recurvirostra avosetta, which usually breeds in in the Wadden Sea area but has expanded east- wards to these islands. These changes are a response to the loss of natural habi-


tats, partly driven by climate change. Creating new habitats that support early successional processes is crucial in combating biodiversity loss (Gómez-Serrano, 2024, Nature Ecology&Evolution, 8, 1201–1202). Birds respond quickly to environmental changes and therefore reflect the overall health of ecosystems. These increases in bird populations and the presence of new breeding species on these artificial islands is testament to the success of such interventions, and


Oryx, 2024, 58(6), 689–699 © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Fauna & Flora International doi:10.1017/S0030605324001169


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