Mike,
Thanks for your post and below are comparisons to the last year results.
Total - 2346, 2041 (increase 15%)
Taiwan - 1280, 1104 (increase 16%)
Deep Bay - 462, 335 (increase 38%!!!)
China mainland and Hainan - 234, 247 (decrease 5%)
Macao - 39, 52 (decrease 25%)
Vietnam - 46. 63 (decrease 27%)
Japan - 258, 215 (increase 20%)
Korea - 27, 25 (increase 8%)
So, the spoonbills were living well last year and this year Deep Bay area including both sides in Hong Kong and Shenzhen has a very large increase.
The figure of 462 is not the highest figure in the Deep Bay in this winter. During our monthly waterbird count, we actually have a count of 496 BFS in the January waterbird count (on 24 Jan 2010).
So, the number of BFS is also approaching to 500 in the Deep Bay (together with the total number of bird species recorded in HK)!!!
Tung
[ Last edited by yyattung at 2/03/2010 15:55 ]
