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(Message started by: HF_Cheung on Apr 6^th, 2006, 2:13pm)

Title: Seabirds near Po Toi 蒲台島附近的海鳥
Post by HF_Cheung on Apr 6^th, 2006, 2:13pm

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There were good numbers of Skuas on the sea near Po Toi yesterday (5 April 2006), including many Arctic Skuas (see first photo) and a Promarine Skua (second photo).

HF Cheung

Title: Re: Seabirds near Po Toi
Post by HF_Cheung on Apr 6^th, 2006, 2:55pm

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Several Common Terns were seen on 2 April 2006 at the same site.  This is close to the earliest record of this species in HK.  They are of the subspecies longipennis, I think.

HF Cheung

Title: Re: Seabirds near Po Toi 蒲台島附近的海鳥
Post by Mike Kilburn on Apr 7^th, 2006, 8:32am

The day after the busy Skua passage the additional survey produced the following seabirds:

Red-necked Phalarope - several hundred

Long-tailed Skua - 8
Arctic Skua - 1

Heuglin's Gull - 2

Greater Crested Tern - 1
Common Tern - 4

Ancient Auk - 1

Also on Po Toi :

Wryneck - 1
Ashy Minivet - 2
Little Bunting - 2
Yellow-browed Warbler - 6-7
Pallas' Leaf Warbler - 1

Cheers

Mike K

Title: Re: Seabirds near Po Toi 蒲台島附近的海鳥
Post by Mike Kilburn on Apr 8^th, 2006, 11:00pm

Today the following birds were seen on a challenging and enjoyable outing:

Seabird survey:

Streaked Shearwater - 2

Swinhoe's Egret - 1
Cattle Egret - 2

Peregrine - 1
White-bellied sea Eagle - 1

Red-necked Phalarope - 300+

Pomarine Skua - 1
Arctic Skua - 3
Long-tailed Skua - 16

Common Tern - 20

Brown Hawk Owl (!) - 1 (see pix in the identification section)

In addition, the following were seen on Po Toi:

Chinese Goshawk - 2
Besra - 1

Ashy Minivet - 1

Mugimaki Flycatcher - 2

Chinese Starling - 4

Brambling - 1 cracking male (v good feather condition)

Hopefully more pix to come from the army of photographers out today.

Cheers
Mike K

Title: Re: Seabirds near Po Toi 蒲台島附近的海鳥
Post by John Holmes on May 2^nd, 2006, 11:06pm

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Two shots of a Sooty Tern taken south-west of Po Toi during the Sea Bird Survey on May 2, 2006.

It was with three Bridled and 150 White-winged Black Terns. We also saw Common, Aleutian and Black-naped Terns.
Two Short-tailed Shearwaters were seen in the morning. One, possibly two Brown Hawk Owls were noted flying over the sea.

Title: Re: Seabirds near Po Toi 蒲台島附近的海鳥
Post by miket on May 5^th, 2006, 11:47pm

Another very good trip today.

I don't have exact numbers, and I wasn't on the first leg of the trip, but in the afternoon we had some very good views of Streaked and Short-tailed Shearwaters (about 15 and 10 of each), all three skuas (with some of each species giving stunning views, including the biggest Pom I think I've ever seen), at least two very photogenic Crested Terns, +Aleutian, Common, WW Black, Whiskered, Bridled and Black-naped Terns.

We also had another example of that bird which the seabird survey has most surprisingly transformed our knowledge of, i.e. a Brown Hawk Owl.

I know that Geoff Welch had 960 terns past Po Toi in the early am too - Aleutian, Common, WWB, Whiskered and Bridled I think , + one or two skuas and shears.

On Po Toi the birds were much the same as yesterday, but Graham Talbot and I saw a Lanceolated Warbler near the Lighthouse.

My final one of the Seabird Surveys, so for my part thanks to Tung for what he did to make them possible and to the crew of the boat for their understanding and cooperation, and safe stewardship of the boat and its occupants.

Mike Turnbull