Shenzhen Bay Park

This guide to Shenzhen Bay Park follows the black-faced spoonbill, one of the world's rarest wading birds, which returns each winter to a shoreline that almost became a highway. You'll hear how engineers planning the city's coastal boulevard rerouted it more than two hundred meters north, leaving behind the mangroves and mudflats that now sit on a major migration corridor stretching from Siberia to Australia. Along the way it traces how a stretch of reclaimed tidal flat became thirteen kilometers of shoreline drawing millions of visitors a year. Watch the shallows near the mangrove edge for a flash of that flat, spoon-shaped bill.