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        Discussion Area 討論區 >> Birding Reports & Tips 觀鳥報告及心得 >>  Schrenick's Bittern in school campus 在校園裡遇到紫背葦鳽
        
(Message started by: carmen on Oct 12^th, 2005, 6:32pm)

Title: Schrenick's Bittern in school campus 在校園裡遇到紫背葦鳽
Post by carmen on Oct 12^th, 2005, 6:32pm

At around 10.15am this morning, a female/ juvenile Schrenick's Bittern was discovered in my school.(Heep Yunn School in Kowloon)
It was at the corner of the corrider near a water pipe.
Observed in close distance.(about 1 m)
Size: small and could be overlooked. a little bigger than a black-necked starling
Plumage: very dark streaks on its neck. The back was in dark brown/ black with tiny white spots.
Legs: yellow with long toes
Standing pose: neck was straight and upright (a frightened bittern look)
The bird was too dark to be a yellow bittern. I thought of Cinnamon Bittern but it wasn't brown/ chestnut at all.
I checked for it after an hour but it was gone.

It was unbelievable to see it in school where there is no fish ponds/ reeds!

Title: Re: Schrenick's Bittern in school campus
Post by Lynx on Oct 12^th, 2005, 9:46pm

That's a wonderful discovery.... I have been living in the area for 35 years ::) what a proud birding record for Ma Tau Wai ;D

Title: Re: Schrenck's Bittern in school campus 在校園裡遇
Post by miket on Oct 14^th, 2005, 11:15pm

This species' seems to have an attraction for school buildings: we found a recently, but not absolutely freshly dead adult male at my school (Island School on Borrett Road in Mid-levels above Kennedy Road) on 4 October this year, and some time during the early 1990's I saw one fly onto the campus of St Stephen's Girls' School near Bonham Road, managing to squeeze its very slim body through one of the approx 2cmx2cm square gaps in a wire link fence.

Mike Turnbull