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Migratory birds spotted on Dongsha

With temperatures getting cooler, large flocks of migrating birds have been seen flying over Dongsha Marine National Park in the South China Sea, with 11 bird species documented there for the first time, officials said yesterday.

Conservation officials from the Marine National Park ­Headquarters and wildlife experts from ­the Kaohsiung City Wild Bird Society conducted a field survey on the Dongsha atoll earlier this month.

An official from the Ministry of the Interior’s Construction and Planning Agency (CPA), which is in charge of national park affairs, said the 11 species included the merlin, migratory quail, crested tern, plaintive cuckoo, Indian cuckoo, citrine wagtail, short-tailed bush warbler, Gray’s grasshopper warbler, red-breasted flycatcher, paradise flycatcher and common rosefinch.

“These new additions have brought to 215 the number of bird species sighted and documented in the Dongsha Marine National Park,” a CPA official said.
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