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Koel_Ko
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We visited Chebaling for just a brief 3 days (3/4/04-5/4/04) but was enraptured with the sight of the primary forests and a habitat not found in Hong Kong, the forested ravines with a pebbled river running in between.
Spring migration was not strong there but we picked up a few residents, sharing below. 
Plumbeous Redstart female 4/4/04
Crested Kingfisher male 4/4/04
Red-headed Trogons and a White-eared Heron were noted also in the trip. They gave an air of mystery about the reserve that but those who have visited could apprehend.
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White-eared Night Heron?? Pls give more description - a flying bird over the main stream? Did they make any calls? Did they carry any sticks or fish?
Every sighting of this endangered spp is important.
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Re: Chebaling
« Reply #2 on: Apr 8th, 2004, 10:21am » |
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Dear Captain,
The Night Heron, so the guide says, is a common sight at a section of valley in Chebaling provided one knows the time and location to find them. I did not see the Night Heron but 2 of our 'team' members did. They described it as a dark shadow of a bird the size of a hawk flying over the valley after making a call 'good good', deep and loud. The wingbeats and flight stance, they held, was distinctive.
We tried to find it the next evening but was only awarded with a call which the guide held also was the night heron's: a deep, eerie, pounding 'hoop'. Later the guide added that the heron has an array of different calls, some emitted when perched, some in flight etc.
As the guide told us many Hong Kong birders have visited chebaling and seen the heron there. The sightings invariably are around 7 o'clock at night or around 8 in the morning, when the heron might be found returning to the daytime roost.
Hope the above helps. 
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William Wong
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Have you seen the 'Black Browed Barbet also.
A 'Black Browed Barbet' was seen during our visit to Chebaling in last year X'mas holiday.
Which type of birds you have seen during your visit?
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Re: Chebaling
« Reply #4 on: Apr 9th, 2004, 1:09pm » |
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我地今次聽到好多...不過都係睇唔到...  ...今次睇到:
Little Grebe x2
Chinese Pond Heron 1
White-eared Night Heron x1H/S
Striated Heron x2
Crested Serpent Eagle x1
Eurasian Sparrowhawk x1
Barn Swallow
Red-rumped Swallow
Grey Wagtail
White Wagtail
Collard Finchbill
Red-whiskered Bubul
Chinese Bubul
Mountain Bubul
Chestnut Bubul
Long-tailed Shrike
Brown Dipper
Plumbeous Redstart
Slaty-backed Forktail
White-crowned Forktail
Sibarian Stonechat
Blue Whistling Thrush
Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler
Rufous-capped Babbler
Greater Necklaced Laughing Thrush
Grey-cheeked Fulvetta
Striated Yuhina
Yellow-bellied Prinia
Plain Prinia
Black-throuted Tit
Great Tit
Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
Fork-tailed Sunbird
Japanese White-eye
Chinese Bamboo Partridge H/S
Silver Pheasant
White-breasted Waterhen
Oriental Turtle Dove
Chestnut-winged Cuckoo H
Large Hawk Cuckoo H
Greater Cuocal
Oriental Scops Owl H
Collared Owlet H
Asian Barred Owlet H
Grey Nightjar?? H
Little Swift
Red-headed Trogon S/H
Crested Kingfisher
Blyth's Kingfisher x1
Common Kingfisher
Great Barbet H
Black-browed Barbet H
Grey-headed Woodpecker
Bay Woodpecker H
White-rumped Munia
Hair-crested Drongo
Blue Magpie
Grey Treepie
Magpie
只係可惜見唔到White-eared Night Heron...
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William Wong
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With reference to your records and our records of December 2003, no Flycatcher of any kind was seen and also very poor in record of Bunting.
We has seen a Tristram's Bunting in the paddy filed of Chebaling only.
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Re: Chebaling
« Reply #6 on: Apr 12th, 2004, 8:47pm » |
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We surmise that chebaling lies just aside of the normal migration route of the bulk of passerines we enjoy seeing so much in hong kong. The environment there looks more than suitable to the migrants. 
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Re: Chebaling
« Reply #7 on: Apr 12th, 2004, 9:21pm » |
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When I go through the checklist published in the Hong Kong Bird Report 1995 and from Richard Lewthwaite for visits from 1995 to 99, I noticed that the number of species and the collective number of flycatchers and buntings in Spring for Che Ba Ling was not that much:
For your reference:
Hainan Blue flycatcher 1
Blue and white 2
Asian Brown 4
Red throated 1
Mugimaki 1
Yellow -rumped 1
Black-faced bunting 10
yellow-browed 1
little bunting 42
Chestnut bunting 20
yellow-breasted 8 (all from our visit on 2-4, May 1999)
There are much more flycatchers (both in species and in numbers) recorded at Ba Bao Shan in spring.
I hope somebody is continously collecting these sort of data.
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Re: Chebaling
« Reply #8 on: Apr 12th, 2004, 11:10pm » |
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Just want to share with you another photo of the Crested Kingfisher. This picture revealed the characteristic brown patch near the chin.
It is a pity that a few White eared night herons 海南虎斑鳽 were shot down in the past few years for the sake of displaying them as preserved specimens! This seems a bit too much for such a critically endangered species.
http://community.webshots.com/s/image11/1/19/47/133511947KCRZWq_ph.jpg
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