Hope to see S21 next year and I am sure I'll take photos of S21 again.
Author: HFCheung Time: 1/06/2014 21:43
How old is S21? I thought he/she was ringed last year when he/she was hatched. If he/she were only 1 year old, then it should not breed this year. How non-breeding immatures spend their summer is always a question on my mind. I will be very happy to learn from this bird.
HF Cheung Author: HKBWS Ivan Time: 10/06/2014 11:11
另外,李博士也提供了另外4隻衛星追蹤的黑臉琵鷺的動向,牠們現在都於中國東部沿海停留,即管看看牠們會不會來臨香港,請各位鳥友幫忙留意一下后海灣的黑臉琵鷺!
Doctor Lee gave the information of other 4 tracking Black-faced Spoonbill to us. All of them are now staying in Coastal area of East China, see if they will come to Hong Kong or not, birdwatchers please pay attention of the Black-faced Spoonbills in Deep Bay area!
We just received news of our tracking Black-faced Spoonbill from Dr. Lee, 9 of total 12 tracking Black-faced are staying in Mainland China and other three are staying in Taiwan. There are some interesting founding, we found that S81 stayed at inland area of Hangzhou around Qiandao Lake. S80 left South Korea on 2 Nov, it just used 2 days to migrated to Fujian coastal area. But the most amazing one is S79, it flew from South Korea on 3 Nov to Aogu in Taiwan and arrived on 4 Nov. The distance around 1500 km but it finished within 30 hours!
Black-faced Spoonbills's tracking positions on December
衛星追蹤黑臉琵鷺12月動向
Dr. Lee is tracking of 15 birds with satellite devices. We recieved some updated information of those tracking Black-faced Spoonbills. There are 4 birds have migrated to Taiwan and 8 birds are staying in China. We found that another bird S74 is staying at Shijiu lake, Anhui(about 300km inland from the coast!). 1 bird moved to Kumamoto on 5 December. But there are still 2 birds are staying in South Korea, the weather is dropping to minus degree. Dr. Lee is worrying about them for the health problem in this uncommon situation.
Happy New Year everyone! We got tracking BFS news from Dr. Lee, there are 8 tracking BFS staying in East China, 3 birds in Hangzhou and 4 birds in Fujian. The bird S74 are still staying in inland area, Shijiu lake. But we did not received any signal of E50, one of 8 tracking BFS after 1st Dec.
After the International Census last week, we got the most update news of tracking BFS! There are 5 tracking BFS staying in Mainland China coastal area, including Hangzhou((S62, S75, S81) and Fujian (S71, E48). Another 5 birds are staying in Taiwan, including (S21, S60, S69, S79 and S80). S73 keeps staying in Kumamoto, Japan for wintering. But we lost few birds already, they are E70 ans S74 which are no signals and E50 & S74 which are broken antenna. The most sad news is that 2 birds are found dead in Korea - S70 & S82, so they are really hard to live in the wild!
From South Korea, Dr. Lee Ki-sup provides us the latest information of satellite tracking Black-faced Spoonbills! Colour-ringing and satellite-tracking of Black-faced Spoonbills are still on-going in this breeding season. Some of these Black-faced Spoonbills have arrived to Southeast China region already. S21 which stayed in Taiwan last winter has come back to Hong Kong again. It completed a long journey from Korea to Hong Kong (including a non-stop flight of 500km in 12 hours through Yellow Sea). It arrived at Hong Kong on the 1 Nov and has already been found by birdwatchers. Photos of S21 show it is in a good condition now and actively fed in the Deep Bay area.
Image is S21's migration route.
Dr. Lee brought some news to us from South Korea. Our old friend S21 and a 1st winter bird H22 arrived Hong Kong in early December, some bird watchers may have already seen them. Some other 1st winter birds arrived Taiwan and mainland China already. The satellite tracking of Black-faced Spoonbills in southeastern mainland China is important for International BFS Census held on 15-17 Jan 2016. This help us to locate the wintering Black-faced Spoonbill in census period.
S21, H22及其他黑臉琵鷺的遷徙路線
Migration route of S21, H22 and other Black-faced Spoonbills in mainland China and Taiwan