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APPENDIX 3

Selective list of birds recorded from the Deep Bay/Mai Po area.

Red-throated Diver, via stellata.

February 1901.

G

Cno caught in a fishing net in Deep Bay in One scen in Deep Day in December 1939.

Podiceps cristatus.

Winter visitor. About 120 in Febru.ry

Great Crested Grobe.

1966. In recent years about ten.

Little Grebe. Podiceps ruficollis. Recorded in small numbers throughout the

year occasion:lly up to 30+. At least five pairs nested 1972.

Spotted-billed Pelican. Pelecanus philippensis. Formerly up to 50 birds regularly

observed during the winter. Smaller numbers in recent years.

Dalmation Pelican. Pelecanus crispus. First recorded in 1971. About 70 in 1972.

Cormorant. Phalacrocorax carbo. Winter visitor with up to 500 recorded.

noted inland on fish ponds.

Recently

Von Schrenk's Little Bittern. Ixobrychus curhythmus. Single birds at Mai Po in

April and October 1956.

Yellow Bittern. Ixobrychus sinensis. Most birds recorded during the summer (up

to 50+) but a few winter. Estimated 22 pairs nested in the mangrove in 1960 and an estimated 50 pairs nested in 1973.

Chestnut Bittern. Ixobrychus cinnamoneus. Summer visitor with up to ten recorded,

but usually smaller numbers. Breeding hac occasionally been suspected but never proved.

Black Bittern. Ixobrychus flavicollis. Occasional visitor in small numbers.

flew over Deco Bay in April 1963.

Bittern. Botourus otelleric, Winter visitor in small numbers.

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Night Heron. Nycticorar nycticorax. Passage migrant and summer visitor in s 1.2.

numbers. Birds from the Yim Tso Ha egretry may roost in the mangrove.

Chinese Pond Heron. Ardeola bacchus.

Recorded throughout the years.

Cattle Egret. Ardeola ibis. Recorded throughout the year with maximum numbers

March through September.

Little Green Heron. Boturides striatus. Up to ten recorded throughout the

SURI. Breeding recorded in 1957.

Little Egret. Erett garzetta.

winter.

Common throughout the year, particularly in

Two recorded May 1960.

Lesser Egret. Egretta intermedia.

Swinhoe's Egret. Egretta culopotes. Only a few records but probably overlooked.

Great Egret. Egretta alba. Non-breeding birds with up to 100 during the winter.

Grey Heron. Ardea cinerea. Over 100 recorded at times during the winter. Small

numbers sULEOT.