Spoon-billed Sandpipers in China (1 Viewer)

[Dong Bei]

My friend Bai Qingquan from Dandong saw up to three Spoon-billed Sandpipers near Dandong on the coast over a few days last week. I know he wouldn't mind me posting that here on this forum.

Tom

 

[Terry Townshend]

And on 19 May Jan-Erik Nilsen, a Swedish birder, found one breeding plumaged SBS at Nanpu, south of Tangshan in Hebei Province.

 

[rockfowl]

And on 19 May Jan-Erik Nilsen, a Swedish birder, found one breeding plumaged SBS at Nanpu, south of Tangshan in Hebei Province.

During the dates I was trawling the waders on Happy Island looking for one... So close- Ouch!

 

[mcaribou]

not so good in May in Rudong.Only a few were seen in early May eg. when leading Birdquest group.
From mid- to late May my friends did surveys but saw none,which means the number is very low.

 

[McMadd]

Thought this deserved a link to remind us 2012 breeding season is underway

http://www.saving-spoon-billed-sandpiper.com/2012-expedition/

cheers
Mark

 

[keith]

Thought this deserved a link to remind us 2012 breeding season is underway

http://www.saving-spoon-billed-sandpiper.com/2012-expedition/

cheers
Mark

Thanks for the link Mark.

 

[mcaribou]

Came back from Guangxi and heard that this spring at Beihai a local birder saw Spooner.Will post more details.
Will leave soon for Tibet/Xinjiang and will come back at the end of July.Of course I will miss many early waders in July in Rudong but hope that I can meet the first group of Spooner arriving in Aug.

 

[MKinHK]

Look forward to hearing how you get on in Tibet/Xinjiang

Cheers
Mike

 

[McMadd]

Look forward to hearing how you get on in Tibet/Xinjiang

Cheers
Mike

What Mike said

Have a good trip and let's break that "Autumn Spooners in Yangkou" record in August! :t:

Mark

 

[mcaribou]

Spooner's coming back--
after my big count of ADowitcher in Lianyungang,I travelled to Dongtai,north of Rudong.This morning in quite low tide I saw 3 br(moulting inner primaries) and 18+ NGreenshank.
Then at sunset in Rudong I saw 2 NG.

 

[rockfowl]

Great news Mc!

 

[KFC]

Indeed - great news. Will be interesting to see if any flagged 'head-started' birds get seen.

Hope you have a good spooner season.

Ken

 

[mcaribou]

we observed the different moulting stages of NG and Spooner yesterday/today.
NG arrives in mid- to late July,and moults earlier.Now one bird shows 4 old outermost primaries and 6 new inner primaries.Only P6 is not in full length.P5~P1 are fully grown.Secondaries all dropped.But note that a few individual are still in quite br plumage(black looking) so I guess those birds may moult flight feathers later.

Meanwhile,the three Spooner yesterday are very red and one of them shows 5 old outer primaries and only hints of new inner primaries can be seen.Secondaries all dropped.
Spooner arrives in early Aug,later than NG and it moults later.

Just focus too much on those two rare birds and still need more observation on eg. Red-neck Stint and Greenshank

 

[mcaribou]

3 Spooner in br plumage at Haian,north of Rudong today.NG is quite easy to see anywhere now,today 12+ together with Spooner.
A few days ago at Rudong we saw 1 1st-sum Spooner.

 

[mcaribou]

today at one roosting flock in Rudong 12 Spooner(11 br and 1 1st-sum).

 

[keith]

Lucky bugger, what a sight that must have been!!.

 

[Terry Townshend]

Great news, Mcaribou. And congratulations with the Common Ringed Plover (reported on "China Observations", too.. must be much rarer than SBS on China's east coast!

 

[mcaribou]

Yesterday's 12+today's 5 at the CRPlover site+some(?) between them,about 20 most of which are adults.

 

[rockfowl]

Just a quick heads up for those out surveying and observing the Spooners return passage through E.China to keep a special eye out (yes I know you are anyway) for any potentially colour flagged/ringed juveniles. These are the 'head-started' juveniles from the project, I believe that nine were successfully raised and released - http://www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/800.aspx?s_id=579012900 and http://www.saving-spoon-billed-sand...n/chukotka-2012/headstarting-in-meinypilgyno/

Good luck and fingers crossed!

 

[Frogfish]

Excellent video. You should know that the appeal website for donations seems to be unaccessible : http://wwt.org.uk.sbsappeal/