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Red-necked Stint with a Japanese flag

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They have been here for several months and are currently changing into their breeding plumage and fattening up. It won’t be long and we will watch them fly off into the sunset as they make their journey north to breed. It changes into its breeding plumage and heads off, but has never been seen back in Hong Kong!

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A Grey-tailed Tattler flagged In Taiwan returns annually

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Great Knot and Red Knot will all intermingle together and the Red Knot are easily overlooked when not in their breeding plumage when every bird appears “grey”! It was only a week later that we discovered our first Terek Sandpiper that had been flagged at Torinumi in Japan.

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