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🐃🐦 Interested in how feral buffalo & cattle affect bird communities in Hong Kong?
Join our research team (@amcell.bsky.social, Prof. Kate Flay & me) at CityU HK through the DAAD RISE Paid Internship for German students.
Apply: shorturl.at/LvDe3 | Ref: HK_BI_0704| |📧: cgthadeus2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk

Face to face with the landowner. Rent is due 😂🐃

📍Shap Long, Hong Kong

Did you know? Grebes can compress their feathers to reduce buoyancy, helping them dive easily.
📍Mai Po Nature Reserve

Nature’s resilience in the shadow of progress 🌱 🪶
📍Mai Po Nature Reserve

Water buffalo by birth, supermodel by attitude😅🐃

🌿 Native to tropical coastlines, the Sea Mango (Cerbera manghas) thrives where few plants can tolerate salt, heat, and shifting sands. But beneath its fragrant flowers and mango-like fruit lies a potent danger: cerberin, a toxic cardiac glycoside that has caused fatal poisonings across Asia.

Male fiddler crabs show sexual dimorphism, with one claw much larger than the other. This oversized claw helps attract mates, defend territory, and even cool the crab down by releasing body heat while it's active on hot tidal flats

Well, Mai Po Nature Reserve has its toughest security guard, and he's even got wings🪶

From the paddies of Long Valley🌱🪶

Shek Sheung welcomed me with these beauties! 🦋

Just a few favorites from Ma On Shan today

Spotted a large Carpenter bee visiting Kandelia obovata flowers of Tai O mangroves🐝🥀

All of these photos tell a story: a pair of Black-collared Starlings walking together, then one flies off and returns with a thread-like material, possibly presenting it to the other, both birds call loudly together before taking flight.

📍Ma on Shan

Peek-a-moo, I see you! 😆🐮

📍Tap mun, HK

Tap Mun version of traffic jam: sharing the path with the real locals 🐄🐖

Just a tailorbird going through its morning rituals 💚

📍Pui O, Lantau

Why walk when you can float?🐃😌
This is B Jay from Pui O, Lantau Island.

#WaterBuffaloLife #SpaTime