Raymond 30/11/2010 12:03
ID Photo (5)
Please help to identify, photo shoot at:
Venue: Mei Po
Date: 27th Nov, 2010
Time: Afternoon
Sorry, please excuse for my ignorance and asking something not related to birds in this forum, I just want to know the Chinese & English name of this "fish"? Many thanks.
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HKBWS Vicky 30/11/2010 12:22
This is a kind of mudskipper 彈塗魚
lkatherine 30/11/2010 12:26
This is a Blue-spotted Mud Skipper [i]Boleophthalmus pectinirostris [/i]大彈塗魚, one of the two most common species of mudskipper you can find at Mai Po.
FYI, the other species is Common Mud-skipper [i]Periophthalmus cantonensis[/i] 廣東彈塗魚 which is mainly brown and don't have blue spots on its body, more info. can be found here: [url=http://assets.wwf.org.hk/downloads/common_mudskipper.pdf]http://assets.wwf.org.hk/downloads/common_mudskipper.pdf[/url]
Katherine
Raymond 30/11/2010 15:19
Thank You
Thank you all for the identificaion and information of 彈塗魚. One more quesion, will the birds eat 彈塗魚?
wcaptain 1/12/2010 09:35
Yes, egrets and herons, Saunders's Gull and Greenshank .....