lkatherine

It is interesting to see that the Pintail in Haifeng has came back to HK from the signal on 7-Feb.

Katherine

lkatherine

Several of the ducks have spent sometime at Chongming 祟明島 earlier, we are lucky to hear from the staff there that one of the Pintail with the transmitter was photographed! Be reminded that Chongming is such a huge site compare to Deep Bay!

The following link is a discussion forum showing our duck at Chongming:
http://www.dongtan.cn/InfoContent.aspx?Id=48559E8D-70F2-4921-99AB-A089BA46D431&CategoryId=F3F02159-E6CB-4CFE-8BD0-0ED4B8383AED

Cheers,
Katherine

lkatherine

Most transmitter from last winter (2008) http://www.werc.usgs.gov/sattrack/hongkong/maps.html haven't been sending signal for quite some time already. The last signal from one of the Pintail heading south indicated that it was on an island north of Hokkaido on 29-Nov-09.

The maps under this website http://www.werc.usgs.gov/sattrack/hongkong/maps09.html are NEW ducks (another 23 Pintail and Wigeon) which were fitted with satellite trasmitters this Wednesday (9-Dec-09). Two types of transmitter were fitted on these ducks so there are 2 Google Earth file for downloading.

Looking forward to see these new ducks' departure.


Cheers,
Katherine

[ Last edited by lkatherine at 11/12/2009 13:00 ]

lkatherine

Interesting to find out that one of the Pintail has flew west to Beihai 北海 in Guangxi, where there are fishpond/shrimp pond and mangroves.

[ Last edited by lkatherine at 22/12/2009 11:36 ]

lkatherine

Happy to find that one of the Pintail is heading south now.

After spending 1.5month in nothern Japan, it flew south for around 600km to a river in the middle part of Japan.

It then flew >1,300km  arcoss the sea, with speed of 52km/hr to coast of Zhejiang Province, and has been staying around Taizhou Wan (an IBA) for >5days now.

The cold front coming next week may push it to fly south again, very much looking forward to see if it will come back to Mai Po!

http://www.werc.usgs.gov/Project.aspx?ProjectID=37

Katherine

[ Last edited by lkatherine at 2/12/2010 12:04 ]

lkatherine

Although the Goolge Earth file haven't show any of the duck in HK at the moment, one of the tracked female Pintail was seen at the Education Center this morning at around 10:30.

What an exciting Christmas present for Mai Po!

A couple record shots below.

Katherine