WWF Mai Po 7/12/2006 15:08
359 BFS at Mai Po 米埔有359隻黑臉琵鷺 5th December 2006
[b][u][size=18] New Record Count for Black-faced Spoonbills at Mai Po[/size][/b][/u]
A record high number of [b][u]359[/u][/b] Black-faced Spoonbills was recorded at the Mai Po Inner Deep Bay Ramsar Site on 5 Dec 2006. This has been the third successive winter that over 300 Black-faced Spoonbills have been seen.
The Spoonbills were recorded from several locations within Mai Po Nature Reserve including their main roosting site and another pond within the reserve, which was being slowly drained to provide small fish and shrimps for Spoonbills and other waterbirds to eat.
The estimated world population of Black-faced Spoonbill is nearly 1,700 and the count at Mai Po represents 21% of the world’s known population. The previous high counts of Black-faced Spoonbills were recorded at 305 in November 2004 and 340 in December 2005.
[Full press release http://www.wwf.org.hk/eng/pressreleases/20061207.php ]
Black-faced Spoonbill: MPNR [i]gei wai[/i] #3 : 05 Dec 2005 (Bena Smith)
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WWF Mai Po 7/12/2006 15:37
Recent Counts
Recent BFS counts inside Mai Po:
28 Nov = 288
29 Nov = 296
01 Dec = 286
05 Dec = 359
06 Dec = 315
These counts were made around midday which seems to be a good time because nearly all the birds are roosting/loafing inside [i]gei wai[/i] #3 or #6. At least 5 Eurasian Spoonbill have also been seen.
[b]Bena Smith
WWF Reserve Officer[/b]
tbob 8/12/2006 22:24
Mai Po 6th Dec 2006
Too many BFS to count