In 1993, KEITH WOODLEY became the full-time manager of the Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre, on the western coast of the Firth of Thames, and has been there ever since. In that time, he has hosted thousands of people at the Centre, given hundreds of talks on coastal ecology and shorebird migration, and had a box seat as the fabulous story of godwits and their epic migrations has unfolded. Woodley has fostered an intense knowledge of the shorebird migration flyway, visiting key sites in Australia, Alaska, China, North Korea and South Korea. In 2022, he was made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to shorebird conservation. Woodley is the author of two previous books: Godwits: Long-haul Champions (2009) and Shorebirds of New Zealand: Sharing the Margins (2012).