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Migratory Shorebirds Management Plan
Report GLNG Curtis Island Marine Facilities Migratory Shorebirds Environmental Management Plan 17 MARCH 2011 Prepared for GLNG Operations Pty Ltd Level 22 Santos Place 32 Turbot Street Brisbane Qld 4000 42626727 Project Manager: URS Australia Pty Ltd Level 16, 240 Queen Street Angus McLeod Brisbane, QLD 4000 Senior Ecologist GPO Box 302, QLD 4001 Australia T: 61 7 3243 2111 Principal-In-Charge: F: 61 7 3243 2199 Chris Pigott Senior Principal Author: Angus McLeod Senior Ecologist Reviewer: Date: 17 March 2011 Reference: 42626727/01/03 Status: Final Chris Pratt Principal Environmental Scientist j:\jobs\42626727\5 works\draft emp\for tina 17.3.11\3310-glng-3-3 3-0065_shorebirds_final_17 03 2011.doc Table of Contents Abbreviations............................................................................................................iii Executive Summary..................................................................................................iv 1 Introduction .......................................................................................................1 1.1 Project Background .........................................................................................1 1.2 Purpose of the Migratory Shorebirds Environment Management Plan ...................................................................................................................1 1.3 Aims and Objectives ........................................................................................3 1.4 Study Area ........................................................................................................3 -
Natural History of Japanese Birds
Natural History of Japanese Birds Hiroyoshi Higuchi English text translated by Reiko Kurosawa HEIBONSHA 1 Copyright © 2014 by Hiroyoshi Higuchi, Reiko Kurosawa Typeset and designed by: Washisu Design Office Printed in Japan Heibonsha Limited, Publishers 3-29 Kanda Jimbocho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 101-0051 Japan All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. The English text can be downloaded from the following website for free. http://www.heibonsha.co.jp/ 2 CONTENTS Chapter 1 The natural environment and birds of Japan 6 Chapter 2 Representative birds of Japan 11 Chapter 3 Abundant varieties of forest birds and water birds 13 Chapter 4 Four seasons of the satoyama 17 Chapter 5 Active life of urban birds 20 Chapter 6 Interesting ecological behavior of birds 24 Chapter 7 Bird migration — from where to where 28 Chapter 8 The present state of Japanese birds and their future 34 3 Natural History of Japanese Birds Preface [BOOK p.3] Japan is a beautiful country. The hills and dales are covered “satoyama”. When horsetail shoots come out and violets and with rich forest green, the river waters run clear and the moun- cherry blossoms bloom in spring, birds begin to sing and get tain ranges in the distance look hazy purple, which perfectly ready for reproduction. Summer visitors also start arriving in fits a Japanese expression of “Sanshi-suimei (purple mountains Japan one after another from the tropical regions to brighten and clear waters)”, describing great natural beauty. -
Tringarefs V1.3.Pdf
Introduction I have endeavoured to keep typos, errors, omissions etc in this list to a minimum, however when you find more I would be grateful if you could mail the details during 2016 & 2017 to: [email protected]. Please note that this and other Reference Lists I have compiled are not exhaustive and best employed in conjunction with other reference sources. Grateful thanks to Graham Clarke (http://grahamsphoto.blogspot.com/) and Tom Shevlin (www.wildlifesnaps.com) for the cover images. All images © the photographers. Joe Hobbs Index The general order of species follows the International Ornithologists' Union World Bird List (Gill, F. & Donsker, D. (eds). 2016. IOC World Bird List. Available from: http://www.worldbirdnames.org/ [version 6.1 accessed February 2016]). Version Version 1.3 (March 2016). Cover Main image: Spotted Redshank. Albufera, Mallorca. 13th April 2011. Picture by Graham Clarke. Vignette: Solitary Sandpiper. Central Bog, Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, Ireland. 29th August 2008. Picture by Tom Shevlin. Species Page No. Greater Yellowlegs [Tringa melanoleuca] 14 Green Sandpiper [Tringa ochropus] 16 Greenshank [Tringa nebularia] 11 Grey-tailed Tattler [Tringa brevipes] 20 Lesser Yellowlegs [Tringa flavipes] 15 Marsh Sandpiper [Tringa stagnatilis] 10 Nordmann's Greenshank [Tringa guttifer] 13 Redshank [Tringa totanus] 7 Solitary Sandpiper [Tringa solitaria] 17 Spotted Redshank [Tringa erythropus] 5 Wandering Tattler [Tringa incana] 21 Willet [Tringa semipalmata] 22 Wood Sandpiper [Tringa glareola] 18 1 Relevant Publications Bahr, N. 2011. The Bird Species / Die Vogelarten: systematics of the bird species and subspecies of the world. Volume 1: Charadriiformes. Media Nutur, Minden. Balmer, D. et al 2013. Bird Atlas 2001-11: The breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland. -
Migratory Birds Index
CAFF Assessment Series Report September 2015 Arctic Species Trend Index: Migratory Birds Index ARCTIC COUNCIL Acknowledgements CAFF Designated Agencies: • Norwegian Environment Agency, Trondheim, Norway • Environment Canada, Ottawa, Canada • Faroese Museum of Natural History, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands (Kingdom of Denmark) • Finnish Ministry of the Environment, Helsinki, Finland • Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Reykjavik, Iceland • Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greenland • Russian Federation Ministry of Natural Resources, Moscow, Russia • Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Stockholm, Sweden • United States Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska CAFF Permanent Participant Organizations: • Aleut International Association (AIA) • Arctic Athabaskan Council (AAC) • Gwich’in Council International (GCI) • Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) • Russian Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON) • Saami Council This publication should be cited as: Deinet, S., Zöckler, C., Jacoby, D., Tresize, E., Marconi, V., McRae, L., Svobods, M., & Barry, T. (2015). The Arctic Species Trend Index: Migratory Birds Index. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri, Iceland. ISBN: 978-9935-431-44-8 Cover photo: Arctic tern. Photo: Mark Medcalf/Shutterstock.com Back cover: Red knot. Photo: USFWS/Flickr Design and layout: Courtney Price For more information please contact: CAFF International Secretariat Borgir, Nordurslod 600 Akureyri, Iceland Phone: +354 462-3350 Fax: +354 462-3390 Email: [email protected] Internet: www.caff.is This report was commissioned and funded by the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the Biodiversity Working Group of the Arctic Council. Additional funding was provided by WWF International, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS). The views expressed in this report are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Arctic Council or its members. -
Pale-Legged Leaf Warbler: New to Britain
Pale-legged Leaf Warbler: new to Britain John Headon, J. Martin Collinson and Martin Cade Abstract A Pale-legged Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes was discovered dead after hitting a window at the lighthouse on St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, on 21st October 2016. Feathers taken from the bird were sent for DNA analysis, which confirmed the bird to be a Pale-legged Leaf Warbler and eliminated the morphologically similar Sakhalin Leaf Warbler P. borealoides. An earlier record of one of this species pair from Portland, Dorset, on 22nd October 2012 concerned a bird photographed and seen well by several observers, but it was not possible to establish which species was involved. Full details of both sightings are described here. This is the first record of Pale-legged Leaf Warbler for Britain and the Western Palearctic, and the species has been added to Category A of the British List. Pale-legged Leaf Warbler on Scilly t around midday on 21st October point Pale-legged Leaf P. tenellipes and 2016, Laurence Pitcher (LP) was Sakhalin Leaf Warbler P. borealoides were not A eating a pasty outside the lighthouse species that crossed my mind, but several on St Agnes in the Isles of Scilly when the people responded immediately – notably owner, Fran Hicks (FH), came over for a James Gilroy, Chris Batty and Andrew Holden chat. They bemoaned the lack of migrants on (AH) – with these very suggestions. AH hap- the island, but in parting FH casually men- pened to be on the island and soon arrived at tioned that a Phylloscopus warbler had struck the lighthouse. -
A Little Bunting Reaches Baja California Sur KURT A
NOTES A LITTLE BUNTING REACHES BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR KURT A. RADAMAKER, 8741 E. San Pedro Dr., Scottsdale, Arizona 85258; [email protected] DAVID J. POWELL, 11001 N. 7th St., #1184, Phoenix, Arizona 85020; [email protected] At midday on 8 October 2008, we discovered a Little Bunting (Emberiza pusilla) at Rancho San José de Castro on the Vizcaíno Peninsula, Baja California Sur (cover photo, Figure 1). This sighting represents the first record of this Old World species from Mexico and only the third for North America south of Alaska. Rancho San José de Castro is located at 27° 32′ 20.83″ N, 114° 28′ 24.29″ W, approximately 3 km toward Bahía Asunción south of the main road from Ejido Viz- caíno to Bahía Tortugas. The ranch consists of a few small structures and dwellings, a small livestock pen, a natural spring and a pond about 50 m wide, an orchard, and several large trees and plantings. It is one of several small ranches that dot the immense, xeric landscape of the Vizcaíno Peninsula, a rugged and barren promon- tory jutting far out into the Pacific Ocean about midway down the Baja California Peninsula, south and west of Guerrero Negro. Its proximity to the ocean, isolation, and barren landscape, with only a few remote ranches and fishing villages, make it an ideal location for finding migrants and vagrants (Howell et al. 2001). Ever since the discovery of Mexico’s first Arctic Warbler (Phylloscopus borealis) there (Pyle and Howell (1993), it has been birded nearly annually, producing a number of noteworthy sightings (1991–2000 results summarized by Erickson and Howell 2001). -
米埔的鳥類mai Po Birds
米埔的鳥類 Mai Po Birds 前言 Foreword 本「米埔鳥類名錄」(包括米埔及內后海灣拉姆薩爾濕地及鄰近濕地地區範圍)共記錄 426 個野生鳥類物種(即香港鳥類名錄中類別 I 及 II 之鳥類),記錄於本名錄 A 部份。當中 400 個物種曾在「米埔自然保護區及中心」範圍(圖 1)內錄得,在本名錄以「*」號表示。 其他與逃逸或放生的籠鳥相關的米埔鳥類物種,記錄於本名錄 B 部份(即香港鳥類名錄中類別 III 之鳥類)。 This “Mai Po bird species list” hold over 400 wild bird species (i.e. Category I of the Hong Kong Bird Species List), recorded from the Mai Po and Inner Deep Bay Ramsar Site and its vicinity wetland area. They are shown in Section A of this list. Over 370 of these species have been recorded inside the “Mai Po Nature Reserve and Centers” boundary (Fig 1). They are marked with an asterisk (*) in this list. Other Mai Po species for which records are considered likely to relate to birds that have escaped or have been released from captivity are shown in Section B of this list (i.e. Category II and III of the Hong Kong Bird Species List). 圖 1. 米埔自然保護區及中心 Fig. 1 Mai Po Nature Reserve and Centers Credit: Google Earth 2010 1 Last update: May 2019 最後更新日期:2019 年 5 月 A 部份 Section A: 中文名稱 英文名稱 學名 全球保育狀況 1 * Chinese Name English Name Scientific Name Global Conservation Status1 雁鴨科 DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS Anatidae * 栗樹鴨 Lesser Whistling Duck Dendrocygna javanica * 灰雁 Greylag Goose Anser anser * 寒林豆雁 Taiga Bean Goose Anser fabalis * 凍原豆雁 Tundra Bean Goose Anser serrirostris * 白額雁 Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons * 小白額雁 Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus 易危 Vulnerable * 大天鵝 Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus * 翹鼻麻鴨 Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna * 赤麻鴨 Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea * 鴛鴦 Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata * 棉鳧 -
Bird-A-Thon San Diego County Team: Date
Stilts & Avocets Forster's Tern Red-tailed Hawk Bird-a-Thon Pheasants & Turkeys Black-necked Stilt Royal Tern Barn Owls Ring-necked Pheasant American Avocet Elegant Tern Barn Owl San Diego County Wild Turkey Plovers Black Skimmer Typical Owls Grebes Black-bellied Plover Loons Western Screech-Owl Pied-billed Grebe Snowy Plover Common Loon Great Horned Owl Team: Eared Grebe Semipalmated Plover Cormorants Burrowing Owl Western Grebe Killdeer Brandt's Cormorant Kingfishers Date: Clark's Grebe Sandpipers & Phalaropes Double-crested Cormorant Belted Kingfisher Ducks, Geese & Swans Pigeons & Doves Whimbrel Pelicans Rock Pigeon Brant Long-billed Curlew American White Pelican Woodpeckers Canada Goose Band-tailed Pigeon Marbled Godwit Brown Pelican Acorn Woodpecker Eurasian Collared-Dove Wood Duck Black Turnstone Bitterns, Herons & Egrets Downy Woodpecker Common Ground-Dove Blue-winged Teal Sanderling Great Blue Heron Nuttall's Woodpecker White-winged Dove Cinnamon Teal Least Sandpiper Great Egret Northern Flicker Mourning Dove Northern Shoveler Western Sandpiper Snowy Egret Caracaras & Falcons Cuckoos, Roadrunners & Anis Short-billed Dowitcher Little Blue Heron Gadwall American Kestrel Greater Roadrunner Eurasian Wigeon Long-billed Dowitcher Green Heron Peregrine Falcon Swifts American Wigeon Spotted Sandpiper Black-crowned Night-Heron New World Parrots Vaux's Swift Wandering Tattler Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Mallard Red-crowned Parrot White-throated Swift Northern Pintail Willet Ibises & Spoonbills Red-maked Parakeet Hummingbirds Green-winged -
Checklist of Suffolk Birds
Suffolk Bird Checklist status up to and including 2001 records (2002 & 2003 where stated) - not including BOURC category E R = records considered by BBRC r = records considered by SORC, requiring full descriptions see end of list for Category D and abundance codes red-throated diver common winter visitor and passage migrant, rare inland black-throated diver uncommon winter visitor and passage migrant, rare inland great northern diver uncommon winter visitor and passage migrant yellow (white)-billed diver R accidental, 3 records; 1852, 1978 and 1994 little grebe locally common resident, passage migrant and winter visitor great crested grebe locally common resident, passage migrant and winter visitor red-necked grebe uncommon winter visitor and passage migrant, mostly coastal slavonian grebe uncommon winter visitor and passage migrant, mostly coastal black-necked grebe uncommon winter visitor and passage migrant northern fulmar fairly common summer visitor and passage migrant Cory's shearwater r very rare (autumn) passage migrant; 28 records of 37 individuals, all post 1973 great shearwater r accidental, 6 records; 3 post 1950 sooty shearwater uncommon autumn migrant Manx shearwater uncommon passage migrant, mainly autumn Balearic shearwater r very rare passage migrant, 9 records, all since 1998 Leach's storm petrel r scarce passage migrant European storm petrel r very rare passage migrant, 28 individuals since 1950 northern gannet common offshore passage migrant great cormorant locally common passage migrant and winter visitor, a few oversummer -
Field Notes on the Grey-Tailed Tattler
AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS Keast, J. A., 1949. Field notes on the grey-tailed tattler. Records of the Australian Museum 22(2): 207–211. [18 January 1949]. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.22.1949.601 ISSN 0067-1975 Published by the Australian Museum, Sydney nature culture discover Australian Museum science is freely accessible online at http://publications.australianmuseum.net.au 6 College Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia FIELD NOTES ON THE GREY-TAILED TATTLER. By J. A. KEAST. The Australian Museum, Sydney. Habitat-preference amongst the migratory Charadriiformes is an aspect of study to which little attention has been paid in Australia. That these hardy and resolute birds, which bj-annually traverse half the world, should have reached a high stage of adaptability would appear certain. It is therefore surprising to find that some species restrict themselves in their choice of feeding grounds, a differential distribution that has led to a concept of rarity in the case of some comparatively common visitors. Such is the case as regards the Grey-tailed Tattler (Tringa brevipes) in New South Wales, as has been shown by observations made during recent years. The Official Checklist of the Birds of Au.stralia (1926) gives the range of the Grey-tailed Tattler in Australia as "Northern Australia, South Queensland, and Western Australia". Actually the species was known from Sydney a quarter of a century previous to this (North, 1898), but it was not until K. A. Hindwood made frequent observations at Long Reef, a rocky promontory near -Collaroy, that the species was shown to be a regular summer inhabitant of coastal New South Wales. -
WANDERING TATTLER Newsletter
Wandering March 2021 Volume 70, Number 6 Tattler The Voice of SEA AND SAGE AUDUBON, an Orange County Chapter of the National Audubon Society President’s Message Spring Fling – Online Presentation by Gail Richards, President Friday, March 19, 2021 Sea and Sage Audubon Society has become very involved Via Zoom in two important issues that are particularly important to Sea and Sage is unable to open the doors for our Orange County birders: traditional Annual Dinner this year, but we have a great program planned for you. The evening will Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary include door prizes, presentation of our slate of Sea and Sage Audubon Society was notified that Cal State officers, and very well-deserved Conservation Fullerton had suddenly closed the Tucker Wildlife Awards. The highlight of the evening will be our Sanctuary on January 8. We learned that the deed to the speaker. property specifies, if CSUF divests itself of maintaining Tucker as a Wildlife Sanctuary, the property reverts back to “The Language of Birds” its former owner, the San Fernando Valley Audubon presented by Nathan Pieplow Society. SFVAS was surprised by this sudden turn of events and invited representatives from Sea and Sage, All around us, the birds are constantly telling us who they Friends of Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary and Inside the are and what they are doing. In this talk for any audience, Outdoors (from Orange County Department of Education) Nathan Pieplow unlocks the secrets of their language. to discuss the matter on January 19. It became clear that You’ll listen in on the pillow talk of a pair of Red-winged this is a complex real estate issue and will not be resolved Blackbirds, and learn the secret signals that Cliff Swallows immediately, but SFVAS is thoroughly researching its legal use when they have found food. -
Vol.25 No.2 Summer 2014
Bermuda Audubon Society NEWSLETTER Summer 2014 P.O. Box HM 1328, Hamilton HM FX Vol.25 No.2 www.audubon.bm Email: [email protected] In this issue: Audubon at 60 Andrew Dobson The Bermuda Audubon Society 1954-2014 Karen Border Arctic Warbler – new to Bermuda and the east coast of North America Andrew Dobson Confirmation of the Common Raven as a new record for Bermuda David B. Wingate Bird Report January to May 2014 Andrew Dobson Society News Audubon at 60 I was lucky enough to be present at the Society’s 40th anniversary in 1994 when American ornithologist Kenn Kaufman addressed a large gathering at the Hamilton Princess Hotel. Ten years later we celebrated once again in style at Horizons with a fascinating talk presented by Australian ornithologist Nick Carlile who worked closely with Jeremy Madeiros in the Cahow translocation project. For the 50th anniversary we also produced a special magazine which includes a detailed history of the Society (and available on the BAS website under ‘Newsletters). In the introduction to his article, David Wingate wrote, “In 1954, a small group of local naturalists got together to address growing environmental concerns in Bermuda. The tragic loss of the once dominant Bermuda cedar due to the scale epidemic of the late 1940s, and the establishment of the starling as another nest site competitor along with the sparrow, was threatening the imminent demise of the native bluebird. There was also a government policy of filling in the marshes by using them as garbage dumps. But it was a time of hope too, because the Cahow had just been rediscovered in 1951.” How quickly another 10 years have passed.