Black-faced Spoonbill Research Group

Hong Kong is one of the largest wintering sites of Black-faced Spoonbill, the result of the Census will also provide essential information with regard to the management of the Mai Po Inner Deep Bay Ramsar Site (see map below).

The HKBWS Black-faced Spoonbill Research Group focuses on information collection, monitoring, liaision with local and international experts, conduct relevant publicity and publish finding and results. Team members include Yat-tung Yu (convenor), Anthony Lo, Dickson Wong, Forrest Fong, Louis Cheung and Ho-fai Cheung.

To read reports of the previous Black-faced Spoonbill International Census and relevant papers, please click the following links and choose "CENSUS" at the banner:

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/bfs/index.html (English)
http://www.hkbws.org.hk/bfs/indexc.html (Chinese)

The Group has assisted Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government in winter 2001/02 and 2002/03 to carry out a project on age structure assessment of wintering Black-faced Spoonbill. The project aimed to find out the breeding success and to predict the population trends of Black-faced Spoonbill. To read the report, click the links below:

• 2004-2005 report
• 2002-2003 report
• 2001-2002 report