On 17th of December 2012, with Richard Lewthwaite, during a survey in South West Guangdong in China, searching for potential Spoonbilled Sandpiper wintering site (survey funded by the HongKong Birdwatching Society), we were abble to locate 4 birds at Fucheng near Leizhou city. The birds had joined a sizeable roost of about 1500 shorebirds in a dry intertidal fishpond.

Below a few photos documents of these birds…