New Record Count for Black-faced Spoonbills at Mai Po
A record high number of
359 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
gei wai #3 : 05 Dec 2005 (Bena Smith)
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