Tag: birding
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Birding Expedition to the Mai Po Marshes, Hong Kong
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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Birding Trip to Tai Po Kau Forest, Hong Kong
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 