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Yangtze Waterbird Survey Report 2004 長江流域水鳥調查報告
« on: Oct 17th, 2004, 8:58pm » |
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For members' information, message extracted from Oriental Bird Club e-mail group, share with members. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Barter" <markbarter@optusnet.com.au> To: "Oriental Birding (posting)" <orientalbirding@yahoogroups.com> Cc: "Yang Qin" <QYang@wwfchina.org> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 10:51 AM Subject: [OB] Yangtze 2004 waterbird survey report > > WWF-China has recently published a bi-lingual (Chinese and English) report describing the results of the waterbird survey conducted over a 2 week period in January/February 2004 along the floodplain of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, stretching through Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu to Shanghai. > > > > Highlights of the survey were: > > 1.. A total of 515,896 waterbirds of 83 species were counted. Individual Province counts were: Anhui - 171,841, Jiangxi - 138,643, Hunan - 133,306, Hubei - 47,469, Jiangsu - 15,796 and Shanghai Municipality - 8,841. > 2.. Thirteen globally-threatened species and one near-threatened species were found during the survey. > 3.. The most common species group was the Anatidae (ducks, geese and swans) comprising 66% of the waterbirds counted; next were shorebirds (17%), gulls (7%), and egrets and herons (5%). > 4.. The counts of Swan Geese (60,886 individuals) and Lesser White-fronted Geese (16,937) exceeded current estimates of their respective global (55,000) and regional (14,000) populations. > 5.. Large numbers of cranes were seen: 93% of the global population of the Siberian Crane (2,784 individuals counted), 93% of the regional population of the Hooded Crane (933 individuals), and 68% of the regional population of the White-naped Crane (2,716). > 6.. 57% of the global population of the Oriental White Stork (1,697 individuals) was counted. > Those wishing to obtain a copy of the report should contact Ms. YANG Qin QYang@wwfchina.org at WWF China, Beijing. > > > > Mark Barter
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