Birding Kowloon Park, Hong Kong
When: July 2017 Weather : Hot 28C
Nikon P900, Leica Q
My travels took me to HK on this occasion for a 3 day meeting and the only time I could squeeze out for some birding was at 6am at daybreak for an hour. Fortunately, Kowloon Park was but a few hundred meters from the Langham Hotel where I stayed. At 6am, the weather was muggy and steamily hot…
daybreak in Hk in summer
I walked to the Haiphong Road, the south entrance to Kowloon Park
the first and most common bird was the red whiskered bulbul
and here a pair…singing merrily
Spotted dove
juvenile spotted dove?
Alexandrine parakeets were plentiful
close up of Alexandrine parakeet
Kowloon Park is just adjacent to many of the tall buildings in Tsim Sha Tsui
A magpie robin with breakfast
wagtail
And then this interesting fellow appeared
a black collared starling
a pair of black collared starlings
juvenile tree sparrow
There is a pond in the middle of the park with flamingos
Greater flamingo
black necked swan
Hawaiian geese
And right in the middle of the park is a small aviary where some rather more exotic and unusual birds from Asia were housed. Although I notmally would not visit an aviary preferring to see birds in their natural habitat, I had a quick look at it…
The hard to spot Argus pheasant was one of the unusual birds that I had tried to spot on a previous visit to Panti and Bekok in malaysia….
The Pied Imperial Pigeon which I had only seen once previously in Redang Island Malaysia…
A Tarictic Hornbill from the Philippines
A rhinoceros hornbill which I had seen from a distance in Bukit Tinggi Malaysia
So whilst Kowloon Park didn’t yield any lifers, it was nevertheless a nice place to spend an hour for any birders new to the region. Birding in the hot HK summer doesn’t yield much but it’s still not bad…..
The Natural Traveller 