Subject: 2008 International Black-faced Spoonbill Census 2008全球黑臉琵鷺普查 [Print This Page] Author: yyattung Time: 2/03/2008 15:08 Subject: 2008 International Black-faced Spoonbill Census 2008全球黑臉琵鷺普查
Dear all,
The 2008 International Black-faced Spoonbill Census has been carried out successfully in the second weekend of January. Below are the results of the census.
South Korea: 28
Japan: 224
China Mainland: 313 (another 26 birds recorded outside the census period)
Taiwan: 1030
Deep Bay (Hong Kong and Shenzhen): 369
Macao: 50
Vietnam: 49
Thailand: 2
Total: 2065
It is a historical moment as the global known population of the Black-faced Spoonbill breaks into 2,000 individuals. The spoonbill number reached to 1,000 individual in 2003 and it just needs five years to make the number double. It reflects that the spoonbill’s population is really recovering and various conservation measures in several sites have been successfully implemented.
Report of this census will be prepared soon and any further information of this census is still welcome. Thank you very much to you help on the census and your participation is the most important part in this census.
Yat-tung YU
Coordinator
International Black-faced Spoonbill Census
Hong Kong Bird Watching Society
