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The Annual Dongzhai Salon of Bird Photography willbe held at Dongzhai NR, Henan on 2-4 June, along with theFirst National Exhibition of Wild Bird Photography. Waysto participate have been announced at the online forum ofWWF China.

The Symposium of bird photography both Mainlandand Taiwan was held on 7-13 April, Hangzhou, Zhejingprovince, along with exhibition of bird photographs. Ninefamous bird photographers who came from Taiwan tookpart in the meeting with sixty-five bird photographs.

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A Sandhill Crane was found among a flock of HoodedCranes and Common Cranes at Dongtan, Chongming Island,Shanghai on 24 Feb, by Mr. Yuan Xiao. It’s a new record forShanghai.

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The Third Winter Bird Survey was carried out inHainan Province. It was co-organized by the Hainan Wild-life Conservation Center and Hainan Bird Watching Society.A total of 129 species were recorded, including five newrecords for the province.

The 2nd project of tracking Black-necked Cranes bymeans of satellite telemetry has been launched since Feb,2006. Banding work was undertaken at Caohai NR, GuizhouProvince and Dashanbao NR, Yunnan Province successively.So far everything goes well.

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A bilingual (Chinese and English) website on “ChinaBird Watching Network” is developed by HKBWS. It pro-vides information about this emerging community of birdwatchers. It is hoped that the website would facilitate thesharing of experience, birding information, education ma-terial and conservation news within the community. URL ofthe website is: http://www.chinabirdnet.org

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According to the Bird Survey around the Poyang Lake,nearly 73,0000 individuals of 105 winter bird species wererecorded in last winter. Through bird surveys in recentseven years, 75% sites within Poyang Lake NR. have beenidentified as internationally important sites.

Two Geman birders and a Swedish birder made abirding trip to Chebaling NR., Guangdong in Feb. BrownWood owl and Blyth’s Kingfisher were recorded during thetrip.

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The short birding span that I had during my recent visit to Beijing opens me to a world of dedicated andenthusiastic birders whom know their surrounding areas extremely well. Despite the coldness of the early north-ern spring, I was shown very well several species that I had only brief encounter in the past and in addition 18 lifers,happily stacking my life list to 4346. The success of this trip paves the way to my long-awaited birding venture toMainland China.

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The past winter is truly fruitful for birders in Beijing,

a few “good species” were recorded, including Ibisbill andSolitary Snipe in the mountainous area, Lapland Longspurand different species of larks in the plain area, JapaneseWaxwing and Brown-eared Bulbul in the city parks. Nomatter whether it was “a big year for birds” as some people’ssaying, the diligence of the local birders and their progressin bird ID are certainly reasons behind the harvest.

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The Shenzhen Bird Watching Society successfully or-ganized a series of activities in recent years, of which theactivities of environment education in schools were the mostinfluential. The 2nd Futian Bird Watching Race for Pri-mary and Middle School Students was held on 19 Feb. Com-pared with the previous race, this year’s race has integratedinto the Quality Education of the local primary and middleschools and produced an even better impact.

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Spring is coming. I am surprised that the DaurianRedstart continues to stay on the balcony. But another coldweather discloses this secret. What an intelligent birdindeed! Finally, she leaves us to the north. Can I watch herwith her husband next autumn?

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Tree Sparrow are familiar birds in my life. They havecompanied with me since I was a child. Now they are goodfriends of my daughter and I. We like to appreciate theirsongs and behaviors in our spare time.

We had a trip to Yellow River Delta NR for birding andphotographing in March. Dancing to attract sprouses, mat-ing and nestling of Red-crowned Cranes and White Storkswere photoed in close distance. Five Great Bustards and amixed flock of three species of swan were recorded.

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More than 40 Great Bustards had wintered at YellowRiver Delta NR before 1997. But they were not recordedthere for the next nine winters. But this winter members ofDongying BWS recorded a flock of over 40 Great Bustardsat the NR.

Three species of pelicans are to be found in the wild inChina, but only the Dalmatian Pelican can be regularlyfound at known sites (mainly the wintering grounds inGuangdong and Hong Kong). Migration route of this spe-cies from the lower Yangtze region to their believed breed-ing ground in western Mongolia still remains as mystery.With more birdwatching activities in the field in China. Itis hoped that more reports of this species could be compiledin the near future. Cooperation between conservation or-ganizations and authorities in China and Mongolia is es-sential to the future survival of this species, which is reach-ing a low figure of around 30 birds.

The other pelican, Spot-billed Pelican, was a commonresident in southeastern China until the 19th century. Noconfirmed report of this species since the 1960s and it mighthave been extinct in China, although some birds mightwander in Guangxi and Yunnan from neighboring SouthEast Asian countries.

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According to news from the Wetland International, thenon-breeding (winter) grounds of the little-known Mongo-lian Gull(Larus [vegae] mongolicus) are finally being foundthrough colour marking of birds on their breeding groundsin Mongolia. Three individuals marked with wing-tags havebeen recorded in South Korea during this winter.

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the family of Chinese birds in the recent years and theprocesses of their finding and the possible candidate in thefuture.It also delves further into their pattern of distribution.

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From the Wuhan Wild Bird Society1 The Wuhan Primary and Middle School Students’ BirdWatching Race will be held on 2 April.2 The 5th field survey of Chenhu Avifauna Survey Projectconducted by the Wuhan WBS was carried out..3 Training course of bird watching was held for children atthe Nanshan Village.4 The project of bird survey around Zhangduhu Lake hasbeen launched.

From theBeijing Bird Watching SocietyBeijing 2006 Spring Simultaneous Waterbird Survey orga-nized by Beijing Bird Watching Society was carried out on25-26 March.34 members of BJBWS participated the survey.Nine important wetlands including Miyun reservoir,Huairou reservoir and Wild Duck Lake were covered.

From the Xiamen Bird Watching Society1. Several new records for Xiamen wereharvested,including Black-naped Monarch,Common Shelduck etc.2. Birding trip to northern Fujian was organized during thepast Spring Festival.3. With support of the XMBWS, Jimei University in Xiamenhas opened a public course of “birdwaching” in thissemester.

F r o m t h e F u j i a n B i r d W a t c h i n g S o c i e t y1. The “Swarovski Cup” Second Fuzhou Bird Race washeld on 25 March. Nine teams of 40 members took part inthe race. All total 80 species were recorded.2. On March 22, members of society had a symposium withbird watchers from Taibei, exchanging information of southmigrant wader birds passing Fujian province and Taiwan.

From the Dongying Bird Watching SocietyThe meeting of the council was held on March 6. The activ-ity plan for the coming year was discussed in the meeting.

From the Shanghai Wild Bird Society The society participates the discussion of the scheme ofthe Avifauna Survey of Pudong, Shanghai, 2006. It has been involved in the Bird Survey in Fengxian,Shanghai since this March.

From the Chengdu Bird Watching Society1 The president of China OrnithologicalSociety, Mr. Gao Wei met the members ofChengdu BWS.2 Activity to publicize the bird watching was co-orga-nized by Chengdu BWS and a local media- Huaxi City News.3 It organized the presentation by Mr. Xi Zinong, a fa-mous ecological photographer in Chengdu.4 It organized the activity with Canon and 52ce websiteat Yazihe River, Guanghan.5 It is preparing for the First Chengdu Bird Race.

A flock of Short-tailed Parrotbill was seen at Wuyuan,Jiangxi on 1st Feb[Yang zhiidong]; An Upland Pipit was recorded at an altitude of 1000m inLongsheng, Guilin, Guangxi on 25 Feb[Cai Jiangfan]; A Long-billed Dowitcher was found at Futian, Shenzhenon 27 Feb[Dong Jiangtian]; A leg-flagged Saunders’s Gull was recorded at laizhou Bay,Shandong on 28 Feb, it was banded at Shuangtaihe estuary,Liaoning[Zhang Xixian]; A Sandhill Crane was seen at Dongtan, Chongming island,Shanghai on 24 Feb, which considered to be the fifth record ofChina it was there until middle March[Yuan Xiao]; One Black-shouldered Kit was recorded in BeidagangReservoir,Tianjin on 1 March,probablly the second records forTianjin.Recent sightings in the coast Bohai indicate the north-wards trend of its ranges[Liu Yang & Tseng-guofan]

A Dark-throated Thrush was photoed at Hangzhou,Zhejiang on 5 March, it was there until 27th[Zheng Yongfu &Zhu Ying]; A colour-ringed (white) Black-tailed Gull was seen inChangdao, Shandong on 10 March[Zhang Xixian]; A White Wagtail of baicalensis race was seen at HangzhouBotanical Garden Zhejiang on 14 March. 86 White-naped Cranes were recorded at Beidagang NR on16 March[Paul Holt & Wang Qingyu]; More than 7000 Relict Gulls were recorded along the Tangucoast, Tianjin on 17 March.Most of them were adults. Severalindividuals were seen with orange leg flag and metal ring(bandedin Yulin, Shaanxi)[Paul Holt & Liu Yang]; Two Dalmatian Pelicanswere recorded at Chenhu on 18March[Tao Xudong]; A colour-ringed (red) Black-tailed Gull was seen in Laizhou,Shandong on 20 March[Zhang Xixian]; Four Siberian Cranes were seen at Beidagang NR on 26March[Chen Wei]. A white-eared Night Heron was recorded at CHebalingNR. on 28.March[OTANI CHIKARA] 2 1 1 [ ]

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Letters to the Editors Congratulations and appreciations for the successful edi-tion change were received from a few readers’ letters.

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