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Species that rely on rising thermals to soar with minimal effort — many raptors and storks, including the ",[24,38,40],{"href":39},"\u002Fen\u002Fvidy-ptic\u002Fvidy\u002Fbely-aist","white stork"," — depend especially heavily on land-based routes, since thermals form far less reliably over open water, funneling these species through narrow land bridges and straits in enormous numbers during peak migration.",[10,43,45],{"id":44},"why-flyways-matter-for-conservation","Why flyways matter for conservation",[15,47,48,49,53],{},"Because flyways concentrate large numbers of birds, sometimes from many different breeding populations across a wide area, into the same narrow corridors and ",[24,50,52],{"href":51},"\u002Fen\u002Fslovar\u002Fproletnye-ptitsy","stopover sites",", the condition of a small number of key locations along a flyway can have an outsized effect on species that otherwise breed and winter across enormous, widely separated areas. A single degraded wetland stopover along a major flyway can affect the survival of birds breeding thousands of kilometers apart but funneling through that same point twice a year — which is why flyway-scale conservation, coordinated across the many countries a route passes through, has become a central strategy for protecting migratory bird populations.",{"title":55,"searchDepth":56,"depth":56,"links":57},"",2,[58,59],{"id":12,"depth":56,"text":13},{"id":44,"depth":56,"text":45},"\u002Fimages\u002Fslovar\u002Fmigracionnyi-put.png","A migration flyway is the broad geographic corridor a population of migratory birds consistently follows between breeding and wintering ranges, often shaped by coastlines and mountains.","md",[64,67],{"q":65,"a":66},"Why do migrating birds concentrate along specific flyways instead of spreading out evenly?","Physical geography channels them: mountain ranges are easier to fly around than over, open water crossings are minimized where a coastline offers a 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