A successful "twitch" of the Critically Endangered Chinese Crested Tern.
OBC Bulletin 32 described the rediscovery of this species in the summer of 2000, by researchers on the Taiwan-controlled Matsu Islands off the Chinese coast. There is also a note in Birding Asia 2 about a Chinese Crested Tern being seen at Chongming Island, near Shanghai in September 2004. More details about Chinese Crested Terns breeding on the Matsu Islands are in Birding Asia 6.
In recent summers Chinese Crested Terns have been regularly recorded - along with Great Crested Terns and hundreds of waders - on the sandbars at the mouth of the Min River, near Fuzhou, Fujian Province.
This area is only about 30 kilometres west of the Matsu Islands.
Chinese photographer CHEN Lin (陳林） won a prize in the "2008 Rare Birds Yearbook" competition with a shot of mating Chinese Crested Terns taken at the mouth of the Min River. Some great pictures taken this summer by other Chinese photographers can be seen on the Fujian Bird Watching society website (text in chinese) here :
http://www.fjbirds.org/bbs/viewt ... &extra=page%3D1
http://www.fjbirds.org/bbs/viewt ... &extra=page%3D1
The tern site is less than 20 km from Fuzhou Airport, but some muddy paddling is necessary and telescope is a must to get a good views.
The Fujian Bird Watching Society would be pleased to guide more visitors (both Chinese and foreign) to the Min River Estuary and other sites in the province. Their intent is to demonstrate the importance of Chinese Crested Tern to local officials and to raise funds for more more surveys of the Fujian coastline. Anyone interested in a visit may contact English-speaking LIN Chen （林晨） "Forest Morning" - of the FJBWS at email <
buguy@163.com> <
332622060@qq.com> or Mobile (86)-13799370893 for more details.
較早前在褔建褔州閩江河口沙洲成功觀賞到「極危」的 黑嘴端鳳頭燕鷗。
東方鳥會通訊第32期，敘述2000年夏季，一群硏究調查員在 台灣馬袓島嶼再發現黑嘴端鳳頭燕鷗踪跡。 亞洲觀鳥雜誌（前東方鳥會通訊）第2期亦刋載了在2004 年9月份在上海崇明島也有黑嘴端鳳頭燕鷗記錄。 在亞洲觀鳥雜誌第６期有較詳細的黑嘴端鳳頭燕鷗在馬袓島嶼繁殖報告。
近年的夏季，在褔建褔州閩江河口沙洲有數以百或千計數量的涉禽，黑嘴端鳳頭燕鷗經常被發現在大鳳頭燕鷗及其他燕鷗群中出沒。 這河口沙洲地帶與東面的馬袓島嶼相距約30公里。 褔建攝影師 ﹣ 陳林先生在閩江河口沙洲成功拍攝一對黑嘴端鳳頭燕鷗交配情景的相片贏得 2008年稀有鳥類年鑑獎項。
今年夏季其他國內攝影師也拍得黑嘴端鳳頭燕鷗的精彩圖片。
褔建觀鳥會相片結連：
http://www.fjbirds.org/bbs/viewt ... &extra=page%3D1
http://www.fjbirds.org/bbs/viewt ... &extra=page%3D1
觀察地點距離褔州長樂機場不足20公里，不過要看得清楚，必須涉足泥灘。單筒望遠鏡更是必備的工具。
褔建觀鳥會十分樂意讓更多國內外賞鳥者到褔建褔州及其他地方觀鳥。 希望可使當地政府關注重視黑嘴端鳳頭燕鷗，籌募經費在褔建沿海作更多更全面的調查。
有興趣到褔建的鳥友可與 褔建觀鳥會外聯部 林晨先生聯絡 電郵：<
buguy@163.com> <
332622060@qq.com> 手機：(86)-13799370893。
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