HKBWS Ivan

Overseas leg-flagged Shorebird Sightings

Dear members,

You might have seen some shorebirds with colour flags in Deep Bay area every year, please note flag(s) colour(s), position(s), species and percentage of breeding plumage of those birds. We could see these shorebirds with local flags (White over Yellow) or overseas flags (e.g. orange, orange over yellow, yellow, black over white, etc). Members are encouraged to submit their sightings of leg-flagged shorebirds, especially those with overseas leg-flags. Such information can be posted here, through email (resighting@hkbws.org.hk) or PM.

Thank you very much,
Tse Wai Lun

會員們, 大家好,

每年都會有大量涉禽經過或停留於香港米埔，當中有些是帶有足旗的。除了有本地的(即上白下黃)，也有一些是海外的(如黃,橙,黑,白等)。請你將資料記下，如顏色,位置,該鳥的種類,繁殖羽毛的百分比，然後把資料寄給我(電郵至resighting@hkbws.org.hk 或 pm),或張貼在下面。

謝謝
謝偉麟

HKBWS Ivan

25-March-2014
Greater Sand Plover - Upper Right: White

26-March-2014
Great Knot - Upper Right: Black, Lower Right: Orange

ajohn

Ivan, I think it is unlikely that the GSP was originally flagged with white only. I have previously corresponded with people from New Zealand (where white flags are used) and they reported that they have never flagged a GSP (which I think is rare there).

Your GSP may have had a very faded yellow flag (NW Australia), but probably the most likely is that this is a Chongming bird (black and white) which has lost the black flag. This was the final conclusion of the bird I saw last year, which I saw on 27th March and may even have been the same bird!

ddavid

March 31 2014
New Hide, Mai Po Boardwalk

Greater Sand Plover - white flag above blue flag on left leg. P4.

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk 2 April

Greater Sand Plover - P4 (white over blue on left leg) again

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk 3 April 2014

Red-necked Stint - single rectangular orange flag on right leg, no alphanumerical

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk, 4 April 2014

Great Knot - YCR (yellow flag on right leg)
Curlew Sandpiper - no alphanumerical (orange flag on right leg)

John Holmes

Mai Po boardwalk, 5th April 2014

Great Knot - UTZ (Yellow flag on right leg)

((華仔))

Mai Po boardwalk, 5th April 2014
Hard to identify

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7/04/2014 20:46

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7/04/2014 20:46

AYN?

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7/04/2014 20:46

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7/04/2014 20:46

P1

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7/04/2014 21:08

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John Holmes

Great Knot - three flagged birds, all Yellow flag on right leg.

             ZMV

             BY? or RY? (muddy) perhaps same as photographed by Wah Jai yesterday

             YC?

Curlew Sandpiper - Orange flag right leg no number.

ajohn

The two Great Knot with unknown digits are RYN and YCR. I saw both on Saturday and have reported these. YCR is interesting because it was last seen in Australia (Broome) on 25th March, only 10 days before it was first reported in HK (on 4th April).

The last bird in post 9 (Curlew Sandpiper P1) is a Hong Kong-flagged bird (the white upper flag is slightly discoloured). This bird was last reported in Bohai Bay (northeast China) on 24th May 2013. We get good numbers of resightings of HK-flagged Curlew Sandpipers in Bohai Bay, which is clearly an important stopover for our birds (but is also under serious threat from development!)

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk, 21 April 2014 (seen by Mike Kilburn & me)

Red-necked Stint - single orange flag on right leg, no alphanumerical (2 individuals)

Curlew Sandpiper - single yellow flag on right leg, no alphanumerical (1 individual)
Red-necked Stint - single yellow flag on right leg, no alphanumerical (2 individuals)


and these three sightings from earlier this month which I posted in the wrong place:

Mai Po boardwalk, 2 April 2014

Great Knot - single yellow flag, no alphanumerical (1 individual)
Greater Sand Plover- single yellow flag, no alphanumerical (1 individual)


Mai Po boardwalk, 4 April 2014

Greater Sand Plover- single yellow flag, no alphanumerical (1 individual)

John Holmes

On the outgoing tide at MPNR today, 21st April 2014

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk, 23 April 2014

Curlew Sandpiper - single yellow flag on right leg ACE
Curlew Sandpiper - single yellow flag on right leg EVL
Curlew Sandpiper -  single orange flag on right leg, no alphanumerical
Red-necked Stint - orange flag above knee & yellow flag below knee on right leg; no alphanumerical

John Holmes

(North) Western Australia ?

FWIW the ring can be read in a couple of photos…   "737 84"

But these would be more fun if they put letters on the stint-size flags -

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John Holmes

Victoria, Australia

John Holmes

Mai Po Boardwalk, 24th April 2014

Yellow over orange - so that's "SW Western Australia", I believe. The lower flag has faded somewhat

The ring has "035" reading vertically… perhaps the ring size ?

lkatherine

Yes John, vertical "035" is the ring size and series no.

Katherine

John Holmes

Thanks for that clarification, Katherine.

Today, 30th April on the falling tode

Curlew Sandpiper ACE  -  Yellow Flag upper right leg

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk, 5 May 2014

Red Knot - single yellow flag on right leg, no alphanumerical
Red-necked Stint - single orange flag on right leg, no alphanumerical

((華仔))

26/04/2014
??

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8/05/2014 02:24

26/04/2014
802

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8/05/2014 02:24

04/05/2014
??

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8/05/2014 02:24

John Holmes

From the new hide, 10th May 2014

From the several shots taken, the ring number includes the sequence " 76141 "

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((華仔))

Quote:

原帖由 John Holmes 於 10/05/2014 17:06 發表
From the new hide, 10th May 2014

From the several shots taken, the ring number includes the sequence " 76141 "

Same as JOHN's Photo

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12/05/2014 12:33

ajohn

I have contacted the Australian Wader Studies Group about this bird. Fortunately the ring number is enough to know which individual is involved. "76141" was flagged on 22 July 2003 at Nene Valley in the south-east of South Australia. It was one year old at the time.
The bird is now 11 years old, and has presumably migrated each year between South Australia and Siberia - an impressive achievement for such a small bird!

We get very few reports of movements of stints, so this record is very useful. If anyone gets close views of a ringed stint it may be worth trying to get photos from several different angles to work out the full ring number, as was possible in this case. Congratulations to John and Wah jai for managing to get such close shots of this bird.

John Holmes

Thanks for that information, John, I didn't know stints could live as long as twelve !

Here is a more distant photo from among my shots from May 10th.  A different bird, I think - fuller breeding plumage.

But far too far for reading of the leg rings...

esther03166

20May14 MP Pond 16/17

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The following photos were taken by my friend PY

28Apr14  MP Mudflat

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2May2014
MP Pond 16/17

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lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk, 4 October 2014

Kentish Plover rectangular blue flag over yellow flag - I didn't note which leg, but I think it was the right leg

esther03166

6Nov14 Maipo 三層烏屋
Blace face spoonbill S76; s27; E66
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Allen

24/2/2015
Mai Po boardwalk

Great Knot with Thailand Flag

John Holmes

Mai Po Boardwalk, 19th March 2015

hkinni

21/03/2015
Mai Po

John Holmes

MPNR boardwalk, rising tide 26th March 2015

HKBWS Ivan

Quote:

Original posted by hkinni at 26/03/2015 17:37
21/03/2015
Mai Po

This Kentish Plover was flagged at Bohai Bay, China possibly! Good find!

HKBWS Ivan

Quote:

Original posted by John Holmes at 27/03/2015 08:07
MPNR boardwalk, rising tide 26th March 2015

Thank you John! This bird was flagged on 24 Oct 2010 at Han-pao wetland, Changhua County(Taiwan). This was sighted at MP in 2013 Autumn and 2014 spring too!

John Holmes

Curlew Sandpiper - right upper leg Yellow (N Western Australia) - "UK" (no photo)

The lettering on the flag seems finer and harder-to-read than on the Australian flags we have grown used to.

John Holmes

Red-necked Stint (25% breeding) Right leg Yellow above knee, white at ankle  (Sakhalin, Russia?)

Curlew Sandpipers (2 birds, one 25% and one 75% breeding plumage) Orange on right upper leg  (Victoria,Australia)

Greater Sand Plover Yellow flag, upper right leg (N Western Australia)

Taiwan-flagged (white over blue) Marsh Sandpiper  "25" , reported before on March 26th, seen again 4th April

Taiwan-flagged Greater Sand Plover (white over blue), 25% breeding plumage - number not readable

esther03166

9Apr15 Mai Po Gei Wai (pond no 8)
Curlew Sandpiper
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lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk, 10 April 2015

Bar-tailed Godwit (summer-plumaged male) - no alphanumerical; flags yellow over green over red on right leg and yellow over green on left leg; aluminium ring above left foot

Bar-tailed Godwit (summer-plumaged male)  - no alphanumerical or leg flags; aluminium ring above left foot

Greater Sand Plover - no alphanumerical; single bright yellow flag on right leg

John Holmes

Greater Sand Plover - yellow flag, upper right leg "SU"

lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk 14 April 2015

Greater Sand Plover single yellow flag on right leg - 9TJ

John Holmes

April 20th

Curlew Sandpipers Yellow flag upper right leg (N Western Australia ?)  "EPS" "EUD" "DXE" + one with no letters
                  Orange flag    "     "    "  (Victoria ?)         three with no letters

Curlew Sandpiper  Green-over-yellow right leg, no letters readable  (Gulf of Carpentaria, Aus)
                  Black-over-green    "     "        "       "     (Thailand)

Ruddy Turnstone   Orange-over-yellow - no letters readable

((華仔))

15-04-07 M0


15-04-07 U9


15-04-12 AOK


15-04-12


15-04-19


15-04-19 N7


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esther03166

21Apr15 MaiPo broadwalk
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lrichard

Mai Po boardwalk 21 April 2015

Red-necked Stint single yellow flag on right leg, no alphanumerical
Red-necked Stint single orange flag on right leg, no alphanumerical

Curlew Sandpiper single yellow flag on right leg, no alphanumerical

John Holmes

Curlew Sandpipers - upper right leg YELLOW - "CLZ" and "DXH"
Curlew Sandpiper - upper right leg ORANGE - no letters

Curlew Sandpiper - upper right leg ORANGE - "U5"

Red-necked Stint - upper right leg YELLOW - no letters

April 22nd
Curlew Sandpiper Right leg YELLOW - "DMC"

(and from April 12th Curlew Sandpiper - upper right leg YELLOW - "DHB")

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Sze

24/04/2015 16:00-17:30

derekhon2

24/4/2015
MP mudflat

ANGKOK
??ND
?8014

BTW, thanks SZE for teaching me so much!

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((華仔))

25/04/2015
MAI PO BOARD WALK





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kc3018

20150423 MP Boardwalk

Sorry, can't ID the bird

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26/04/2015 15:41

((華仔))

16/05/2015
MAI PO #16/17
Not exactly confirm the metal ring number
Compare those photos,
I think the no. may be [679653] or [79653] or [7963] or [7953]













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