The East Asian-Australasian Flyway extends from within the Arctic Circle, through East and South-east Asia, to Australia and New Zealand, stretching across 22 countries.A flyway is the entire range of a migratory bird species (or groups of related species or distinct populations of a single species) through which it moves on an annual basis from the breeding grounds to non-breeding areas, including intermediate resting and feeding places as well as the area within which the birds migrate.

There are nine major migratory flyways around the world.

• Atlantic Americas Flyway
• Black Sea/Mediterranean Flyway
• Central Asian Flyway
• East Asian-Australasian Flyway
• East Atlantic Flyway
• Mississippi Americas Flyway
• Pacific Americas Flyway
• West Asian-East African Flyway
• West Pacific Flyway