gary

Just had a visit to Minjiang estuary at Fuzhou, I were surprised by the present of abundant waterbirds at late June.
After 4 days of birdwatching, I have some counts of waterbirds:

Great Egret
Little Egret
Oriental Pratincole x 4
Black-tailed Gull x 10
Pied Kingfisher x 1
Common Kingfisher x 1
Chinese Crested Tern x 1
Greater Crested Tern x 37
Whiskered Tern
White-winged Black Tern
Little Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Common Sandpiper
Terek Sandpiper
Kentish Plover
Sanderling (as shown on other thread)
Temminck's Stint x 4 (at some ponds behind the shore)
Little Ringed Plover x 6 (at some ponds behind the shore)
Red Shank x 10
Greenshank x 15
Greater Sandplover x 650
Lesser Sandplover x 2
Whimbrel x 15
Eurasian Curlew
Spot-billed Duck (Anas poecilorhyncha)

With more than than 2000 waterbirds at a beach in summer, I really wonder how many it could hold at migratory season. Birdwatching at the area is not as comfortable as we get at Mai Po, but this place definitely worth a visit, especially when you find Spoon-billed Sandpiper and Chinese Crested Tern using this habitat.

Gary

[ Last edited by cgary at 6/07/2008 00:30 ]