Colin P
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November 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
"all activities that could cause disturbance to the Amur Falcons, whether at the roosting site or elsewhere in the district have been strictly prohibited with immediate effect"
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Nagaland Pangti declared ‘temporary silence zone’ for Amur Falcons
Wokha district administration has declared Amur Falcon roosting site at Pangti as a “temporary silence zone” within a 3-kilometer radius for the duration of the migration season.According to a DIPR re...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"all activities that could cause disturbance to the Amur Falcons, whether at the roosting site or elsewhere in the district have been strictly prohibited with immediate effect"
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Great to see three Red-necked Stints this morning. It's a scarce autumn passage migrant inland here. These birds were with 50 Little Ringed Plovers and a few Common Sandpipers on rainwater pools created on recent landfill #shorebirds #birding 🪶
September 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Great to see three Red-necked Stints this morning. It's a scarce autumn passage migrant inland here. These birds were with 50 Little Ringed Plovers and a few Common Sandpipers on rainwater pools created on recent landfill #shorebirds #birding 🪶
Poisoning, of both wild and domestic animals, is a major threat to the remaining populations of Cambodia's three resident vulture species
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September 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Poisoning, of both wild and domestic animals, is a major threat to the remaining populations of Cambodia's three resident vulture species
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Juveniles of Dark-sided (Muscicapa sibirica 乌鹟 Wū wēng) and Asian Brown Flycatchers (Muscicapa dauurica 北灰鹟 Běi huī wēng) on the patch. NocMig suggests most adults pass through as early as late July and early August, with sight records showing that juveniles follow a few weeks later. #birds #beijing
September 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Juveniles of Dark-sided (Muscicapa sibirica 乌鹟 Wū wēng) and Asian Brown Flycatchers (Muscicapa dauurica 北灰鹟 Běi huī wēng) on the patch. NocMig suggests most adults pass through as early as late July and early August, with sight records showing that juveniles follow a few weeks later. #birds #beijing
Hopefully this represents at least a stabilisation of Cambodia's Sarus Cranes, but still a horrible crash from the 869 recorded in 2011. Large scale conversion of breeding habitat, primarily to agriculture, was a significant driver of the decline
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August 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Hopefully this represents at least a stabilisation of Cambodia's Sarus Cranes, but still a horrible crash from the 869 recorded in 2011. Large scale conversion of breeding habitat, primarily to agriculture, was a significant driver of the decline
www.khmertimeskh.com/501747860/20...
www.khmertimeskh.com/501747860/20...
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Chinese researchers have identified six new breeding sites for White-eared Night Heron, an Endangered species thought to number fewer than 1,000 individuals worldwide:
New White-eared Night Heron breeding grounds discovered in China
Chinese ornithologists have identified six new nesting sites for the endangered White-eared Night Heron in 11 provinces, revealing both broader distribution and persistent threats. Despite possible underestimates of its population, declines in key colonies highlight the urgency for habitat protection, public awareness, and mitigation of human impacts, as China still lacks designated protected areas for this elusive species.
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August 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Chinese researchers have identified six new breeding sites for White-eared Night Heron, an Endangered species thought to number fewer than 1,000 individuals worldwide:
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Conservationists have been left stunned after confirming the nesting of Spoon-billed Sandpiper at a previously unknown location for the species:
Spoon-billed Sandpipers observed at previously unknown breeding site
Conservationists have been left stunned after a satellite-tagged Spoon-billed Sandpiper revealed a previously unknown breeding location for the species. The bird, known as 'K9', was first tracked to a mountainous area of the Russian Far East in June 2024, returning again there this summer. In July 2025, Russian scientists visited the remote area, which has never previously been surveyed, and found three nesting pairs.
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August 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Conservationists have been left stunned after confirming the nesting of Spoon-billed Sandpiper at a previously unknown location for the species:
Autumn is here! Today this early migrant Tibetan Sand Plover was on a small patch of mud with the resident Little Ringed Plovers. It's a scarce visitor inland here, primarily in the autumn #shorebirds #birding 🪶
July 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Autumn is here! Today this early migrant Tibetan Sand Plover was on a small patch of mud with the resident Little Ringed Plovers. It's a scarce visitor inland here, primarily in the autumn #shorebirds #birding 🪶
Found a pair of Indochinese Bushlark in a new location this morning. They were running around in the grass like buttonquails, and occasionally cocking their tails. Difficult to photograph until this one popped up briefly #birding 🪶
July 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Found a pair of Indochinese Bushlark in a new location this morning. They were running around in the grass like buttonquails, and occasionally cocking their tails. Difficult to photograph until this one popped up briefly #birding 🪶
The Little Ringed Plovers are now gathering post-breeding, hopefully the habitat will remain and later next month they will be joined by the odd migrant sand plover or something else interesting #shorebirds #birding 🪶
June 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The Little Ringed Plovers are now gathering post-breeding, hopefully the habitat will remain and later next month they will be joined by the odd migrant sand plover or something else interesting #shorebirds #birding 🪶
Great to see a young Black-shouldered Kite this morning and know they have successfully bred on the patch again. The species is under increasing threat in Cambodia as fledglings are taken from the nest to feed a sadly growing fashion for keeping birds of prey 🪶
June 15, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Great to see a young Black-shouldered Kite this morning and know they have successfully bred on the patch again. The species is under increasing threat in Cambodia as fledglings are taken from the nest to feed a sadly growing fashion for keeping birds of prey 🪶
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New story on the Avian Hybrids blog!
Deep genetic divergence within the morphologically uniform Pale Sand Martin
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Based on the Molecular Ecology study by Qindong Tang and her colleagues | #ornithology
Deep genetic divergence within the morphologically uniform Pale Sand Martin
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Based on the Molecular Ecology study by Qindong Tang and her colleagues | #ornithology
Deep genetic divergence within the morphologically uniform Pale Sand Martin
Which reproductive isolation mechanisms keep these lineages apart?
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June 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
New story on the Avian Hybrids blog!
Deep genetic divergence within the morphologically uniform Pale Sand Martin
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/06/07/d...
Based on the Molecular Ecology study by Qindong Tang and her colleagues | #ornithology
Deep genetic divergence within the morphologically uniform Pale Sand Martin
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/06/07/d...
Based on the Molecular Ecology study by Qindong Tang and her colleagues | #ornithology
Two Greater Adjutant chicks have successfully fledged for the first time as part of the breeding program at the Angkor Centre for the Conservation of Biodiversity in Siem Reap
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Captive-bred greater adjutants learning to fly ahead of return to forests
Captive-bred greater adjutants learning to fly ahead of return to forests
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June 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Two Greater Adjutant chicks have successfully fledged for the first time as part of the breeding program at the Angkor Centre for the Conservation of Biodiversity in Siem Reap
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Red Avadavat is a rare wet season visitor. This pair this morning, the male in non-breeding plumage, showed a lot of yellow on the belly, but are of the red-bellied subspecies punicea
June 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Red Avadavat is a rare wet season visitor. This pair this morning, the male in non-breeding plumage, showed a lot of yellow on the belly, but are of the red-bellied subspecies punicea
I came across a pair of Small Pratincoles with young chicks yesterday, great to see they have successfully bred again. One of them liked to hide in this construction pipe! #birding🪶
June 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I came across a pair of Small Pratincoles with young chicks yesterday, great to see they have successfully bred again. One of them liked to hide in this construction pipe! #birding🪶
A survey by the Cambodian guides from SVC Tours has found only a single White-winged Duck at one of their known locations in the Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary of Cambodia's Northern Plains. They are now tragically on the edge of extinction in the country
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Concerns over declining population of rare duck
Concerns over declining population of rare duck
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May 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A survey by the Cambodian guides from SVC Tours has found only a single White-winged Duck at one of their known locations in the Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary of Cambodia's Northern Plains. They are now tragically on the edge of extinction in the country
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Some of the Oriental Pratincoles now have a second clutch. Came across this by chance this morning so took a a couple of quick shots and then left them alone 🪶
May 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Some of the Oriental Pratincoles now have a second clutch. Came across this by chance this morning so took a a couple of quick shots and then left them alone 🪶
Cambodia's first Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo seems to have taken up residence and is singing in a small piece of temple woodland just outside Phnom Penh. Found a week ago by Laurie Gardner, it now appears that the same bird was first photographed there in early April
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eBird Checklist - 4 May 2025 - Arey Ksat Temple - 18 species
Submitted by Robert Tizard.
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May 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Cambodia's first Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo seems to have taken up residence and is singing in a small piece of temple woodland just outside Phnom Penh. Found a week ago by Laurie Gardner, it now appears that the same bird was first photographed there in early April
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Probably my best ever views this morning of a pair of foraging Common (Small) Buttonquail. I think it is a relatively recent coloniser of the patch, and appears to occupy the same landfill grass/scrub areas as the far commoner Barred Buttonquail #birding 🪶
April 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Probably my best ever views this morning of a pair of foraging Common (Small) Buttonquail. I think it is a relatively recent coloniser of the patch, and appears to occupy the same landfill grass/scrub areas as the far commoner Barred Buttonquail #birding 🪶
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A fabulous Saturday morning at Nuhash Polli, BD, amongst recently arrived and actively calling Indian Pittas #ornithology
April 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
A fabulous Saturday morning at Nuhash Polli, BD, amongst recently arrived and actively calling Indian Pittas #ornithology
Fascinating how they have adapted to human dominated landscapes in South Asia: "Protecting nests in cell phone towers during the breeding season appears to be a critical requirement [for Asian Woollyneck survival] in Bangladesh"
Nesting on Cell Phone Towers: An Inexplicable Breeding Strategy by Asian Woollynecks Ciconia episcopus in Bangladesh | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶 🧪
April 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Fascinating how they have adapted to human dominated landscapes in South Asia: "Protecting nests in cell phone towers during the breeding season appears to be a critical requirement [for Asian Woollyneck survival] in Bangladesh"
Pheasant-tailed Jacana are flocking-up and coming into full breeding plumage before they disperse to breed during the wet season. Unfortunately they were just a little bit far for my camera 🪶 #birding
April 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Pheasant-tailed Jacana are flocking-up and coming into full breeding plumage before they disperse to breed during the wet season. Unfortunately they were just a little bit far for my camera 🪶 #birding
Fantastic! Due one of these in Phnom Penh!
This cracking male Green-backed Flycatcher on my patch this morning. My fifth record at this site, a scarce migrant through Bangkok with the peak period being mid-late April.
April 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Fantastic! Due one of these in Phnom Penh!