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        Special Topics 特別主題 >> Black-faced Spoonbill 黑臉琵鷺 >>  International BFS Census 2003 
        
(Message started by: Yat-tung YU on Mar 16^th, 2003, 1:43am)

Title: International BFS Census 2003
Post by Yat-tung YU on Mar 16^th, 2003, 1:43am

Dear members,

More results have been collected since last announcement. The following is a more complete result:

Taiwan: 585
Hong Kong: 179
Vietnam: 65
Macao: 46
Futian, Shenzhen: 24
Chongmingdao, Shanghai: 1
Yenchang, Jiangsu: 16
South Korea: 22
Japan: 128
Thailand: 3

Therefore, a total of 1069 Black-faced Spoonbills were counted in the 2003 census. This is the highest number of this species ever. Moreover, the actual number is likely even higher as the other 13 individuals were seen in Hainan Island but counts were not made on the time of the census.

Regards

YU Yat-tung

Coordinator
The International Black-faced Spoonbill Census

Title: Re: International BFS Census 2003
Post by bjingbar on Mar 17^th, 2003, 6:57pm

Dear Tung,

Maybe the best news out of the census is the large number of sites where BFS were spotted.

We saw earlier in the year how important the divisersity of these sites are, when we had a large number of birds die in Taiwan but in the other sites, the birds were unaffected