• Ringed Red-crowned Cranes Observed in Haman, South Korea

    Professor Lee Kisup (Dr. Lee Kisup) from South Korea reported on the meeting of Japanese (Red-crowned) cranes pair with white plastic rings 1K4 and 1K5 in paddy fields near the town of Haman Gyeongnam Province January 17, 2013. In 2011, these birds are still in the eggs were brought from the nursery Oka Crane Reserve. […]

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  • China Coastal Waterbird Census wins Ford Green Award

    China lies at the centre of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, and vast numbers of migratory birds pass through the country every year on the journeys between their breeding and non-breeding grounds. In the past seven years the China Coastal Waterbird Census has gathered a wealth of new information on the populations of the waterbirds that […]

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  • Record number of Black-faced Spoonbill Birds Recorded in Census

    There are a record high 1,628 black-faced spoonbill birds in Taiwan, according to an annual census, Taijiang National Park officials said Sunday. The census, part of a worldwide counting of birds initiated by the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society and taken Jan. 12-13 this year, found 1,316 spoonbills in southern Taiwan’s Tainan and 266 in […]

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  • Fewer Ponds in Candaba mean Fewer Migrant Birds

    Even in perfect weather, a smaller number of migratory birds returned to the Candaba Swamp this time around, partly because farmers now grow rice on what used to be idle ponds. Only 5,475 waterfowls of 31 resident and globetrotting species were recorded in the Asian Waterbird Census conducted by the Department of Environment and Natural […]

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  • Fewer Black-faced Spoonbills in town

    An injured Black-faced spoonbill rests at Shenzhen Bay recently. Fewer Black-faced spoonbills than normal are spending the winter in Shenzhen this year, local Chinese-language media reported, citing bird-watchers. The Black-faced spoonbill, a migratory bird, is the only spoonbill regarded as endangered. [View the original article]

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  • Rongcheng, Safe Haven for Swans

    Thousands of swans winter in the coastal wetlands of Shandong each year, and every effort is exercised to make sure these migratory birds have a comfortable refuge. Han Bingbin visits the swan lakes. Some of China’s rare lagoons lie along the relatively unpolluted coastline from Weihai to Rongcheng in Shandong province. Thousands of whooper swans […]

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  • French Birdwatcher Calls for Bird Protection

    Jonathan Martinez, a bird lover from France, was saddened by the sight of hundreds of illegal bird-catcher nets during a December trip to the Leizhou Peninsula in southwestern Guangdong Province. It’s not the first time Martinez has found large amounts of such nets along the province’s coastal areas in the past two years. “I am […]

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  • Malaysia Not Out of Stork

    An increasing number of visitors are flying into Malaysia, with their own wings. The country is now playing host to Asian openbill storks. The local birdwatching fraternity is all abuzz over recent sightings of huge flocks of the stork, which is a large wader and is not commonly seen here. It is usually found in […]

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  • Shorebird Trapping Threatens New Spoon-billed Sandpiper Wintering Site in China

    Four Spoon-billed Sandpipers were found at Fucheng, near Leizhou, south-west Guangdong Province in December 2012. Together with several other recent sightings this record indicates that Spoon-billed Sandpiper is a more widespread wintering species on the coast of southern China than was previously known. However, evidence was found of large-scale trapping of shorebirds and action is […]

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  • Wintering Grounds of Red-crowned Crane in Kangryong, Mundok and Anbyon, DPR Korea

    Kangryong District borders the West (Yellow) Sea on an extension of DPR Korea that protrudes west beyond the northwest corner of RO Korea. These western waters separating the neighboring nations are part of the DMZ. At high tide, the ocean meets the base of hills and dikes. At low tide wide expanses of mudflats are […]

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