September 27th

The following is the list of species that park rangers observed today.

Spot-billed Duck、Northern Pintail、Tufted Duck、Little Grebe、Great Cormorant、Black-crowned Night  Heron、Grey Heron、Great Egret、Little Egret、Little Ringed Plover、Black-tailed Godwit、Common Greenshank、Common Sandpiper、Black  Kite、Oriental Turtle Dove、House Swift、Common Kingfisher、Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker、Bull-headed Shrike、Large-billed Crow、Japanese Tit、Brown-eared Bulbul、Long-tailed Tit、Japanese White-eye、White-cheeked Starling、Eurasian Tree Sparrow、White Wagtail (27species)

Ranger's Activities
Research : Daily Surveys  and  updating records、Vegetation Study
Habitat management : Field work to manage reed bed areas、Cutting Grass in the East Freshwater Pond
Education : Providing visiter services at the Ranger Station
Other : Nothing to Report

Notice
Nature Center : Under renovation (No Entry)

Reedbed management

The staff continue to aggressively cut the reedsin the East freshwater pond. In the summer months, the Little Grebes andOriental Reed Warbler were actively using the area for breeding and foraginghabitat so it was off limits. It is in this season, when transitioning betweenbreeding and before the arrival of wintering waterfowl, that the staff are in arush to accomplish the Reed Bed Management. The staff must make way for theducks. Interestingly, it is important to leave some areas of high reeds inorder to provide cover for the ducks, when the Goshawks are hunting. Otherwisethe waterfowl are quite literally “sitting ducks” in a trap with no escape fromthe hungry predatory birds. It wouldn’t make for a very sustainable Bird Parkif it was simply a buffet for Goshawks.

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