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 […]

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 […]

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]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention) has released the sixth edition of the Ramsar Convention Manual, which was first published in 1994 and has since been periodically updated. In 110 pages, the Manual describes the Convention, its structures, and its activities in detail, reviews […]