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        Special Topics 特別主題 >> Tern Conservation 燕鷗保育 >>  Chinese Crested Tern 黑嘴端鳳頭燕鷗
        
(Message started by: Carrie Ma on Jul 24^th, 2005, 1:24pm)

Title: Chinese Crested Tern 黑嘴端鳳頭燕鷗
Post by Carrie Ma on Jul 24^th, 2005, 1:24pm

I joined one of the Chinese Crested Tern surveys organized by Xiamen Bird Watching Society (XBWS) on 22 July 2005 at a sandflat at Min River Estuary, Fujian. An individual was observed, share with members some interesting pictures.

The bird at the estuary was first discovered by XBWS on 8 August 2004. Regular surveys are being conducted by the XBWS under the funding support of RSPB (Oct 2003 - Jan 2005) and WWF (May 2004 - Mar 2006).

Some recent sightings of the bird are as below (extracted from "China Bird Watch" 2005.05 (http://www.wwfchina.org/chinabirdwatch/vhtml/40/index.htm), data sourced from XBWS):

4 June 2004 - a breeding pair mating at Min River Estuary
18 June 2004 - a pair at Min River Estuary

Equipment:
Nikon Coolpix 4500 + Swarovski telescope + Kowa telescope

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/carriema/ckwma_017.jpg

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/carriema/ckwma_018.jpg

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/carriema/ckwma_019.JPG

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/carriema/ckwma_020.JPG

http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/PhotoG/carriema/ckwma_021.jpg

Please find below some relevant news reported in this bulletin board last year:

Chinese Crested Tern in Xiamen (http://www.hkbws.org.hk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=TernConservation;action=display;num=1113147648)

Chinese Crested Tern in Zhejiang (http://www.hkbws.org.hk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=TernConservation;action=display;num=1113147702)