CHORAO ISLAND |
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Name |
Species |
Comments |
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Little Egret |
Egretta garzetta |
Several birds in mixed Egret flock |
Intermediate Egret |
Mesophoyx intermedia |
2/3 birds in mixed Egret flock |
Eastern Cattle Egret |
Bubulcus ibis coromandus |
Common |
Woolly-necked Stork |
Ciconia episcopus |
4 birds feeding on mud |
Lesser Adjutant |
Leptoptilos javanicus |
Single bird flying over |
Black-headed Ibis |
Threskiornis melanocephalus |
3 birds feeding on mud |
Eurasian Spoonbill |
Platalea leucorodia |
Single bird preening |
Lesser Whistling-duck |
Dendrocygna javanica |
Single bird with wader flock |
Northern Pintail |
Anas acuta |
2/3000 birds on water off island in centre of river |
Brahminy Kite |
Haliastur indus |
Common |
Black-winged Stilt |
Himantopus himantopus |
2/3 birds |
Pacific Golden Plover |
Pluvialis fulva |
Small flock with other waders |
Whimbrel |
Numenius phaeopus |
c6 birds with Curlews |
Eurasian Curlew |
Numenius arquata orientalis |
c4 birds |
Common Redshank |
Tringa totanus |
Flock of c30 birds |
Common Greenshank |
Tringa nebularia |
Small numbers amongst Redshanks |
Common Sandpiper |
Actitis hypoleucos |
2/3 birds busy feeding |
Brown-headed Gull |
Larus brunnicephalus |
c20 roosting |
Gull-billed Tern |
Sterna nilotica |
c10 roosting |
Common Kingfisher |
Alcedo atthis |
Single bird perched on twig and fishing |
House Crow |
Corvus splendens |
Common |
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