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Subject: Little Swifts over ponds around Mai Po Access Road [Print This Page]

Author: John Holmes    Time: 2/02/2011 20:54     Subject: Little Swifts over ponds around Mai Po Access Road

2nd February 2011 Mai Po Access Road

Perhaps sixty individuals... they came and went in flurries.

"Abundant spring migrant..."  (Avifauna)

Happy Lunar New Year / "San Tai Gin Hong"   !

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Author: Beetle    Time: 2/02/2011 21:35

i also found ~50 in Tung Tau Estate, Kowloon this evening.
Author: John Holmes    Time: 4/02/2011 10:07     Subject: Swift nomenclature

To correct myself, the July 2010 HKBWS list has these as House Swift (Apus nipalensis)




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