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- Packing for Inner Mongolia to participate in the JANKOWSKI'S BUNTING survey.. watch this space! #CriticallyEndangered 2 days ago
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Tag Archives: White-faced Plover
Swinhoe’s (White-faced) Plovers
When Dave Bakewell and Peter Kennerley published an article on Surfbirds called “Malaysia’s Mystery Plover” back in December 2007, it caused quite a stir in the birding community. Was it really possible that a small plover, not described in any … Continue reading
Over 250 White-faced (Swinhoe’s) Plovers in Guangdong Province, China
Following Brian Jones’s extraordinary find of breeding White-faced (Swinhoe’s) Plovers in Guangdong Province (reported here last week), Brian returned last weekend to do a detailed count. His total from just two beaches on the south coast was an astonishing 279 … Continue reading
White-faced Plovers breeding in Guangdong Province, China
It was with some excitement that Brian Jones (a guest blogger on Birding Beijing) sent me a SMS at the weekend saying that he thought he had discovered some breeding White-faced (Swinhoe’s) Plovers in Guangdong Province, southern China… The White-faced … Continue reading


