This summary includes the country where birds have been resighted. As expected, most resightings of Hong Kong flags come from Hong Kong, but we also get a good number of sightings in Mainland China and Australia, with a few in other locations.
The most exciting observation for me has been the report of a Pacific Golden Plover in the Marshall Islands. For those that don't know, these islands are located in the central Pacific, about 6,000km east of Hong Kong. It seems likely that this bird was flagged on northward migration to Siberia or Alaska, and then migrated the following year to winter on these islands (or perhaps even continued to Australia). Before this sighting, we ha no idea that Hong Kong was connected to the islands in this way.
Some species have shown stopovers in the Yellow Sea, especially around Bohai Bay. We have had resightings here for Curlew Sandpiper, Grey Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, Pied Avocet and Eurasian Curlew. Other species may also stop in the area.
South of Hong Kong, there have been resightings from around Broome in northwest Australia for Greater Sand Plover, Curlew Sandpiper ad Terek Sandpiper. Some have returned each year. Of course, we also get quite a few resighting of Australian-flagged birds in Hong Kong. We have also had several observations of birds from Hong Kong in Malaysia and Indonesia, including Terek Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpiper and Common Redshank - showing that HK is a stopover also for birds wintering in southeast Asia.
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