Platalea minor: Difference between revisions

The '''Black-faced Spoonbill''' ''(Platalea minor)'' is a species of wading bird in the ibis and [[Spoonbill]] family [[Threskiornithidae]], found in [[Eastern Asia]]. Confined to the coastal areas of eastern [[Asia]], it seems that it was once common throughout its area of distribution. It currently breeds only on a few small rocky islands off the west coast of [[North Korea]], with four wintering sites at [[Macau]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Taiwan]] and [[Vietnam]]. The bird is a [[list of protected species in China|protected species]] in [[China]] as part of the ''China Red Data Book''; its stopover site at [[Jiuduansha]] [[islands of Shanghai|off]] [[Shanghai]] is a national nature preserve.<ref name=hellobirdy>"[http://www.jiuduansha.org.cn/en/english8.htm Birds] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109061128/http://www.jiuduansha.org.cn/en/english8.htm |date=9 January 2015 }}". The Shanghai Jiuduansha Wetland Nature Reserve (Shanghai), 2014.</ref> In [[Hong Kong]], it is a [[List of protected species in Hong Kong|protected species]] under Wild Animals Protection Ordinance Cap 200. In [[Mai Po Marshes]], a quarter of the world's population of black-faced spoonbill can be found during migration. In Hong Kong, disturbances by fishermen and shell gatherers often prevent the birds from feeding at low tide. In addition, with the continued expansion of human populations in the Far East, pollution will probably become an important problem.  Disease has the ability to devastate the black-face spoonbills as well. In the winter of 2002/2003, 73 of the population died due to avian botulism. It may be necessary to establish additional protective areas or reserves in order to not let the population of birds to succumb to disease.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ueng|first1=Yih-Tsong|last2=Wang|first2=Jiang-Ping|last3=Hou|first3=Ping-Chun Lucy |year=2007 |title=Predicting Population Trends of the Black-faced Spoonbill (''Platalea minor'') |journal=The Wilson Journal of Ornithology |volume=119 |issue=2 |pages=246–252 |doi=10.1676/05-112.1}}</ref> Within the ''Autonomous Constituent'' country of [[Macau|Macao]] ''(MSAR)'' it is the designate '''Subnational bird of the Nationalist Macanese [[Devolution|Devolved Home-State-Local Rule]]'''{{refn|name=Gcounts|group=n|''“The Official designated subnational Macanese bird and Awarded Avifauane emblem of the [[Macau|Macao]]” respectively''}}.