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Purple Heron. Ardea purpurea. Formerly considered a winter visitor.
present throughout the year and there were 35 present during the summer of 1974. An adult with two young just able to fly seen in 1968.
White Stork. Ciconia ciconia. One recorded twice in February 1967.
Black Stork. Ciconia nigra. Occasional visitor with up to 14 recorded.
White Ibis. Threskiornis melanocephalus. Winter visitor with up to 18 recorded.
Lesser Spoonbill. Platalea minor. Winter visitor with up to 8 recorded.
Mallard.. Anas platyrhynchos. Uncommon winter visitor.
Yellow-nib Duck. Ancs poecilorhyncha. Nested until 1958. Small numbers summered
in 1974. Varying numbers in winter.
Gradwall. Anas strepera. Occasional winter visitor in small numbers.
Falcated Teal. Ancs falcata. Winter visitor with up to 250 recorded.
Winter visitor with several hundred at times.
Teal. Anas crecca.
Baikal Teal. Anes formosa. Considered quite common before 1960. Last record is
of one shot Febru. ry 1961.
Garganey. Anas querquedula.
times.
Wigeon. Anas penelope.
Passage migrant with several hundred recorded at
Winter visitor with up to 70 recorded.
Pintail. Anas acuta. winter visitor in small numbers. Max ten.
Shoveler. Anas clypeata.
in December 1973.
Mandarin. Aix galericulata.
Occasional winter visitor in small numbers. About 60
Seven immatures seen in 1959.
Scaup. Aythya marila, One at the mouth of the Shum Chun River, December 1959.
Tufted Duck. Aythya fuligula.
Winter visitor with up to eleven recorded.
Red-breasted Merganser. Mergus serrator. Winter visitor to Deep Bay in small
numbers. Up to 60 in December 1973.
Shelduck. Tadorna tadorna. Winter visitor, usually in small numbers, but max
62 recorded.
Lesser Whistling Terl. Dendrocygna javanica. Recorded in April, June, July and
November, Ma: eleven.
Cotton Toal. Nettamus coromandelianus. One shot September 1969 and one scen
October 1974.
Greylag Goose. Anser anser. Two in November 1958 and four March 1972.
Marsh Harrior. Circus aeruginosus.
Winter visitor with five birds commonly recorded.
Pied Harrier. Circus melaneleucos. Winter visitor and passage migrant, usually
singly but three together have been seen,
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