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John's Hong Kong Birding: Red-necked Stints
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Mainly birding in Hong Kong with a few pictures thrown in. A bright sunny day in mid-April. The tide is a lot lower than predicted, but the sun is shining and some of the the waders are close to the boardwalk hides at Mai Po Nature Reserve. Terek Sandpiper - Xenus cinereus. Shows what "air supremacy" means. A group of umpteen Red-necked Stints have decided that the spot right in front of the hide is exactly where they want to be. Red-necked Stint - Calidris ruficollis. Friday, April 24, 2015. Solo Walk f...
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John's Hong Kong Birding: Chinese White Dolphins - Sousa chinensis
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Mainly birding in Hong Kong with a few pictures thrown in. Chinese White Dolphins - Sousa chinensis. Hong Kong's western waters are part of the Pearl River delta, where there is a small and declining population of. Chinese White Dolphin (CWD). Chinese White Dolphin - Sousa chinensis. Not only do these people run informative tours, but they are active in the challenging field of raising awareness of the plight of the Chinese White Dolphin, and trying to conserve them. Now occupies 9 sq km of former dolphi...
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John's Hong Kong Birding: 2014.06
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Mainly birding in Hong Kong with a few pictures thrown in. A trip to see Palawan Peacock Pheasant - 13th to 21st June 2014. When I was young I used to hide from tense TV dramas by skulking behind the sofa or going to see what Mum was doing in the kitchen. The prospect of the England football team's first two World Cup games in the Brazil World Cup finals induced a similar kind of unease, so it seemed a good time to take a short birding break in the Philippines. Http:/ birdingmakiling.blogspot.hk. Manila ...
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John's Hong Kong Birding: 2014.10
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Mainly birding in Hong Kong with a few pictures thrown in. Birds - many with wet feet. Yes, I know I'll have to be more imaginative in my choice of attention-grabbing blog post titles. Anyway, a "mixed bag" from the past couple of weeks. Here's one from Shek Kong Water Catchment. Dark-sided Flycatcher - Muscicapa sibirica. At the "scrape" at Mai Po, exotic Harriers proved elusive for me, but this male and juvenile Painted Snipe provided something to look at. Greater Painted-Snipe - Rostratula benghalensis.
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John's Hong Kong Birding: 2014.07
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Mainly birding in Hong Kong with a few pictures thrown in. Mai Po : Black-headed Gull in July. Despite temperatures at 30 degrees and above, yesterday I decided that a manly stroll to Mai Po's boardwalk hides would be a good way to spend two to three hours. Sunhat, sunblock, and the 500mm lens seemed like an appropriate combination. Along the path, beneath the casuarinas, the first of many White-breasted Waterhens. From the newest boardwalk hide, a surprise. Black-headed Gulls. Thursday, July 31, 2014.
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John's Hong Kong Birding: 2015.08
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Mainly birding in Hong Kong with a few pictures thrown in. Hong Kong: - Early morning, rising tide at the Mai Po boardwalk hides, 13th August 2015. Well, that couldn't be more precise, could it? With the Chinese calendar officially "Autumn" it seemed a good time to check out a rising tide at Mai Po Nature Reserve. For context, a couple of views of Deep Bay with the air clear after overnight rain. Deep Bay - view from Mai Po boardwalk hide with Shenzhen in the distance. Still in fine breeding plumage.
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John's Hong Kong Birding: 2014.08
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Mainly birding in Hong Kong with a few pictures thrown in. Two half-days at Luokeng Nature Reserve, north Guangdong. The road to Luokeng. In September 2002 a team from Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (HK), together with mainland Chinese researchers did a "Rapid Biodiversity Assessment" of Luofeng NR in north Guangdong. The area has a population of the rare Crocodile Lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus). Among the KFBG report findings was that Himalayan Swiftlets (Collocallia brevirostris). After a dawn ren...
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John's Hong Kong Birding: 2015.05
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Mainly birding in Hong Kong with a few pictures thrown in. In spring 2013 we sailed between New Zealand and Papua New Guinea on the “Western Pacific Odyssey” (Heritage Expeditions). I blogged about that trip here:. Http:/ johnjemi.blogspot.hk/2013/05/western-pacific-odyssey-2013-part-1-all 20.html. There were a wide variety of seabird enthusiasts on the trip including Canadian Dr. Kirk Zufelt, whose website “Pelagic Odyssey” makes his interests plain. Http:/ www.pelagicodyssey.ca. Underway in the morning...
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John's Hong Kong Birding: 2015.03
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Mainly birding in Hong Kong with a few pictures thrown in. I recall seeing Purple Swamphen. About twenty years ago at Mai Po, but the possibility of escapes in HK long clouded their status. Up to the beginning of 2015 it was determined that there were only three acceptable records of truly wild birds in Hong Kong. Purple Swamphen is distributed from Africa across much of tropical Asia, with about a dozen recognised races. The Yunnan province race is poliocephalus. After an hour or so, the "star" bird mad...
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John's Hong Kong Birding: 2015.07
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Mainly birding in Hong Kong with a few pictures thrown in. Chinese White Dolphins - Sousa chinensis. Hong Kong's western waters are part of the Pearl River delta, where there is a small and declining population of. Chinese White Dolphin (CWD). Chinese White Dolphin - Sousa chinensis. Not only do these people run informative tours, but they are active in the challenging field of raising awareness of the plight of the Chinese White Dolphin, and trying to conserve them. Now occupies 9 sq km of former dolphi...
