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China observations (1 Viewer)
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McMadd
You should see the other bloke...
Evenin' all
Leg-flagged Great Knot (1 of 13 birds in the flock) at Nanhui today - Kevin has pics I hope he'll be posting but it was an orange flag on upper right leg with metal ring (unreadable at the observation distance) on lower left...anyone care to remind I wherebe that be from?
Sanjiangang is gone and Nanhui isn't far behind...the joys of birding in and around a big city :0(
Cheers anyway
McM
Leg-flagged Great Knot (1 of 13 birds in the flock) at Nanhui today - Kevin has pics I hope he'll be posting but it was an orange flag on upper right leg with metal ring (unreadable at the observation distance) on lower left...anyone care to remind I wherebe that be from?
Sanjiangang is gone and Nanhui isn't far behind...the joys of birding in and around a big city :0(
Cheers anyway
McM
McMadd
You should see the other bloke...
Ha!
Answered my own question...seems our Great Knot with an orange band on the upper right leg was banded in Victoria, Australia...
This is useful for simpletons like me...one to print for the notebook I think!
http://www.shorebird-network.net/PDFs/Asia-Pacific-Flyways-leg-flags.pdf
McM
Answered my own question...seems our Great Knot with an orange band on the upper right leg was banded in Victoria, Australia...
This is useful for simpletons like me...one to print for the notebook I think!
http://www.shorebird-network.net/PDFs/Asia-Pacific-Flyways-leg-flags.pdf
McM
McMadd
You should see the other bloke...
Swift response from the flyway team allows me to complete the story:
This bird was flagged in Victoria (Australia), approximate co-ordinates
38deg 0min S, 145deg 0min E, which uses the flag combination Orange.
The resighting was a distance of approximately 8036 km, with a bearing
of 339 degrees, from the marking location.
No way to know year of flagging I guess but always a thrill to think about the distances these birds cover...Oz to Siberia and back annually...pretty cool...
cheers
McM
This bird was flagged in Victoria (Australia), approximate co-ordinates
38deg 0min S, 145deg 0min E, which uses the flag combination Orange.
The resighting was a distance of approximately 8036 km, with a bearing
of 339 degrees, from the marking location.
No way to know year of flagging I guess but always a thrill to think about the distances these birds cover...Oz to Siberia and back annually...pretty cool...
cheers
McM
McMadd
You should see the other bloke...
Jeff Hopkins
Just another...observer
Interesting combination.
rockfowl
Mark Andrews
via Birding Beijing FB page..
BREAKING NEWS: 1 male BAER'S POCHARD at Yeyahu NR today (Zhu Lei)
Some fabulous images of the recent White-naped Cranes in Beijing - http://www.birdnet.cn/showtopic-473799.aspx
BREAKING NEWS: 1 male BAER'S POCHARD at Yeyahu NR today (Zhu Lei)
Some fabulous images of the recent White-naped Cranes in Beijing - http://www.birdnet.cn/showtopic-473799.aspx
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Jeff Hopkins
Just another...observer
Took a quick walk in Century Park in Pudong late this afternoon after arriving in China, and picked up one lifer and one China tick at the same time: I found a mixed flock of Bohemian and Japanese waxwings.
The rest of what I saw was fairly common: one dusky and many pale thrushes, a flock of vinous-throated parrotbills, and then the usual common species in the park (azure-winged magpie, blackbird, light-vented bubul, red-billed starlings, white wagtail, spotted and turtle doves, little grebe and moorhen).
The rest of what I saw was fairly common: one dusky and many pale thrushes, a flock of vinous-throated parrotbills, and then the usual common species in the park (azure-winged magpie, blackbird, light-vented bubul, red-billed starlings, white wagtail, spotted and turtle doves, little grebe and moorhen).
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Interesting link
I don't know if it was mentioned somewhere else, but I've been enjoying this blog (link thanks to Terry at Birding Beijing). It's fun to see what these ringers are seeing in Beidaihe.
(I've even gone back and read some of last year's entries with no English, using the help of Google translate - lots of fun. One puzzle I'll have to work on later is figuring out what exactly are "brown singers" |:$|)
I don't know if it was mentioned somewhere else, but I've been enjoying this blog (link thanks to Terry at Birding Beijing). It's fun to see what these ringers are seeing in Beidaihe.
(I've even gone back and read some of last year's entries with no English, using the help of Google translate - lots of fun. One puzzle I'll have to work on later is figuring out what exactly are "brown singers" |:$|)
