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Yat-tung YU
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International BFS Census 2003 - Preliminary result
« on: Feb 24th, 2003, 9:22pm » |
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Dear members,
The International Black-faced Spoonbill Census was undertaken on 24-26 January 2003. Preliminary results are listed below.
Taiwan: 585
Hong Kong: 179
Vietnam: 65
Macao: 46
Futian, Shenzhen: 24
Japan: 98 (to be confirmed)
Jeju, S. Korea: 22-24 (to be confirmed)
Shanghai, China: 1
A total of 1020-1022 Black-faced Spoonbills were counted. It is the highest count of this species and first time to over 1000 individuals.
YU Yat-tung
Coordinator
The International Black-faced Spoonbill Census
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Simba Chan
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Re: International BFS Census 2003 - Preliminary re
« Reply #1 on: Feb 25th, 2003, 9:14am » |
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There are definitely more in Japan. The total number should be over 120 birds (the highest count so far recorded in Japan). We are now checking the possibility of double-counting of a few individuals.
I would like to remind everyone that, although the ‘increase’ of BFS is good news, the birds are getting more concentrated to a handful of sites: more than 70% of the global population are now only wintering at two sites with a total area of about 10,000 ha (one-tenth of the area of Hong Kong). Other sites, particularly those along the coast of SE China, are rapidly deteriorating. We should help preserving the sites in Macao and Hainan.
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