The V Shorebird Festival in Ecuador is a three-day event that invites us to celebrate the value of migratory birds and their critical habitats, this year we celebrate the importance of the mangrove and intertidal mud flats for shorebirds that travel between the northern and southern hemisphere, and also the designation of the Canal de Jambelí in the southern Gulf of Guayaquil as a site of international importance for migratory shorebirds. 18 species that nest in Alaska use the Jambeli Channel for wintering and it is a key feeding site on their migratory path.