Third week in a row, cops in Yangshan island stopped me to question. This happened only when i was there alone. I visited the island at-least a few dozen times with Kevin since last year and this year, this is the first time cops are bothered to question, probably i would have looked like a “Chitauri” for them instead of “Captain America”.Back in February while returning from Yancheng with Kevin we made a detour to Yangkou to look for those “5K” Eurasian Oystercatchers. We did not see any Oystercatcher but i found some nice habitat which i thought would best suit for the Little Curlew. Even though it was nearing darkness at 6.30PM on May 10th. I drove straight to the place and i was totally stumbled by the dozen Little Curlews present in the same area. I watched those Little Curlews feeding in the rain till it turned out to pitch black darkness. A target bird eluded me for 3 years and a find of my own will be a long lasting memory. The birds migration strategy in the East-Asian-Australian flyway is very little studied. A very good long distant migrant which is under studied. (May it doesn’t necessarily meet the demand of “How to Photograph Brown-eared Pheasants in Jiaocheng?”)
This year Birdlife Australia has attached Satellite Transmitters to 5 Little Curlews.The details of the project can be seen here.
Some photos below of the Little Curlew, my high and only priority bird for this year’s spring. Hope the cause of their population decline will be identified and conservation measures are put in place.
Itsy bitsy
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