10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2014
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!
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2015
I had only just written about the observation of a Little Tern flagged in Taiwan last week when another flagged bird from overseas placed itself in our path! The metal band was placed on the right tarsus. The upper flag was blue with engraving on it and the lower flag was white and had no writing on it.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2014
They need to go north to breed and we will anxiously await the return of the adults and the juveniles later in the year. In Taiwan there are also migratory shorebirds passing through and they also upload photographs of individually marked birds on their website and detail the history of the birds. Eastern Curlew.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2016
Both the grey morph and white morph of the Eastern Reef Egret were present and also ten Sooty Oystercatchers and our pair of Pied Oystercatchers that breed a few kilometres to the north of Gantheaume Point each year from July. Most of the Red Knot are in very good breeding plumage now and they do stand out very well on the grey rocks.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2016
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”! You may remember my recent posts where we discovered a Little Tern that had been flagged in Taiwan on Cable Beach. Grey-tailed Tattler “35” in 2012.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
The male Bar-tailed Godwit are the first to show us breeding plumage and then the Red Knot and Curlew Sandpipers have two beautiful reds-red wine rather than cranberry juice! Breeding colour becomes rather obvious! She also monitors Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach by bicycle and on foot. Wicked, right?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Kirtland’s Warbler is a classic niche species; they breed in only very specific conditions, which occur in only a very specific area. this species breeds. They bred on a number of islands near Japan and Taiwan, and ranged widely and abundantly from the Aleutian Islands south through California. What a horror! What a wrong!
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