yyattung

Results of 2010 International Black-faced Spoonbill Census:

Taiwan - 1280
Deep Bay (HK and Shenzhen) - 462
China mainland and Hainan - 234
Macao - 39
Japan - 258
Vietnam - 46
Korea - 27

Total - 2346

Thank you very much to all participants

2010全球黑臉琵鷺普查結果

台灣 - 1280
后海灣 (香港及深圳) - 462
中國大陸及海南 - 234
澳門 - 39
日本 - 258
越南 - 46
韓國 - 27

總數 - 2346

非常感謝各參加者!

kmike

Tung

Many thanks for publishing this data

It would be very interesting to know how this  compares to previous years in terms of total numbers and any clear changes in distribution.

One more question. Has the HK record been broken, or are many of the the birds in other parts of Deep Bay?

Cheers
Mike

yyattung

Mike,

Thanks for your post and below are comparisons to the last year results.

Total - 2346, 2041 (increase 15%)

Taiwan - 1280, 1104 (increase 16%)
Deep Bay - 462, 335 (increase 38%!!!)
China mainland and Hainan - 234, 247 (decrease 5%)
Macao - 39, 52 (decrease 25%)
Vietnam - 46. 63 (decrease 27%)
Japan - 258, 215 (increase 20%)
Korea - 27, 25 (increase 8%)

So, the spoonbills were living well last year and this year Deep Bay area including both sides in Hong Kong and Shenzhen has a very large increase.

The figure of 462 is not the highest figure in the Deep Bay in this winter. During our monthly waterbird count, we actually have a count of 496 BFS in the January waterbird count (on 24 Jan 2010).

So, the number of BFS is also approaching to 500 in the Deep Bay (together with the total number of bird species recorded in HK)!!!

Tung

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Sze

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Original posted by yyattung at 2/03/2010 12:26
Mike,

Thanks for your post and below are comparisons to the last year results.

Total - 2346, 2041 (increase 15%)

Deep Bay - 462, 335 (increase 38%!!!)
Macao - 39, 52 (decrease 25%)

似乎澳門已越來越少地方適合黑琵生活了!

題外話,想請教下Macao同Macau有沒有分別的呢?
Is there any different in the meaning between "Macao" and "Macau"?
因為在澳門政府的官方主網頁見到同時有這兩個字出現!?

http://www.gov.mo/egi/Portal/index.htm

lida

Macao好似係葡文寫法, 而Macau係英語寫法, 所以兩個字都係等同澳門.

很高興黑臉琵鷺的數字近年都是不斷上升, 希望升勢持續.

[ Last edited by lida at 2/03/2010 13:03 ]

Sze

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Original posted by lida at 2/03/2010 13:01
Macao好似係葡文寫法, 而Macau係英語寫法, 所以兩個字都係等同澳門.

原來是這樣!明白了!
只是好奇的在澳門政府的官方網頁右上角有4句分別用
繁體中文，簡體中文，葡文（估計是！）及英文寫出：
"歡迎光臨中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區",
在英文一句是用上"Macao SAR"，
但網頁左下角卻出現"澳門 Macau"及
Portal do Governo da RAE de Macau
(澳門特別行政區政府入口網站)的字眼！

[ Last edited by Sze at 2/03/2010 13:20 ]

dick

Macao 是英文
Macau 是萄文

Sze

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Original posted by dick at 2/03/2010 13:27
Macao 是英文
Macau 是萄文

Oh! 明白了!
見Macau這個字比較多, 仲以為佢是英文來的!
謝謝 Dick!

[ Last edited by Sze at 2/03/2010 13:51 ]

HFCheung

Good to hear that BFS increased by 15%.  I had this expectation after hearing that about 500 nests has been counted in 2009 summer in Korea.  However, the percentage of immature BFS in Hong Kong has not shown a big increase.  This is something that we haven't understood completely yet.

Also, from the figures, the population in the south has actually decreased, despite the very cold weather during the autumn and early winter period.

HF Cheung

[ Last edited by HFCheung at 2/03/2010 20:00 ]

kmike

This is very interesting - many thanks Tung!

Cheers
Mike K

Sze

From BirdLife International:
Black-faced Spoonbill numbers up again as Action Plans are launched

http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/03/new_action_plans.html