Tag: Asia
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Pink Dolphin Watching Near Lantau Island (Feb 2020)
Few creatures in Hong Kong are as well-known and charismatic as the Chinese White, or “Pink” Dolphin. In my 5 years in the city, I’ve embarked on two boat trips seeking out these highly endangered cetaceans, with both yielding amazing sightings. The most recent one I did was with my grandma during February of 2020.…
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Exploring the Natural Wonders of Mai Po- Artificial Wetlands, Mangroves and Birdlife
Wildlife and wildlife conservation have always been passions of mine, but birdwatching is a relatively new hobby that I’ve picked up just this past year. Even before I became interested in birding, I was still a keen wildlife watcher and was especially interested in wild mammals. After hearing about a wetland in the New Territories…
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Mrs. Gould’s Sunbird and Forest Birding at Tai Po Kau
featured image: Mrs. Gould’s Sunbird I was back at Tai Po Kau again today, on a sunnier day then last time with the intention of seeing some forest birds. Not only did I see a barrage of exciting forest-dwellers, I also had a lengthy encounter with one of the rarest birds in the entirety of…
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Birding Expedition to Mai Po Marshes
Located in the far northwest of Hong Kong, Mai Po is Hong Kong’s premier birding spot. Over 400 species have been recorded on this sliver of Gei Wai (shrimp farm) ponds, mangroves, mudflats and reed beds, many of them migratory birds all the way from Siberia! In fact, over 60,000 individual shorebirds winter in Mai…
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Birding Adventure at Long Valley, New Territories
Today was my first free weekday in over a month, and the fact that the weather finally cleared up enough for birding led to me gathering up my gear and hitting the road early to make it to a bucket-list birding spot for me: Long Valley. I set out to find the elusive Japanese Quail…
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Sri Lanka (2017): Yala National Park
Yala National Park is a 400 square kilometer preserve set in the dry lowlands of Sri Lanka. Consisting of tall stone monoliths, endless pristine beaches, verdant scrub jungle and freshwater lagoons, this park is world-famous for its leopards. No other place on Earth has a higher density of these spotted cats (2/square kilometer!) It is…
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Birding Adventure at Tai Po Kau Forest!
Until around a thousand years ago, Hong Kong was cloaked in ancient subtropical rainforest where majestic creatures like South China Tigers, Asian Elephants, Silver Pheasants, and Red-Headed Trogons roamed. Throughout the last six centuries, the merciless destruction of these forests for agriculture, firewood and building materials by Chinese settlers led to European explorers considering Hong…
Bennett Gardner Wildlife Watching 