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After a long hibernation during Covid-19 and hard time, CBGA has begun its activities slowly and carefully according to the safety guideline of the Royal Government of Cambodia. Amongst those activities, October Count is a new event for CBGA as well as Cambodia while similar events have happened in countries of the region for years and this event will be organized annually in October at appropriate selected location.

The purpose of the event to collect data of species for the first migration period in the potential area where birds stop to feed during wintertime and this data can help us more for species record and determine where we should discuss with local farmers to give a safe zone for birds under collaboration with CBGA.

Rules and regulations

The rule is the counting should be done with a dimeter of 1km from 6:00am – 6:00pm in the same area and participants can put in the birds they could see and identified both with binoculars and vocalization. The checklist will be published in the blog of CBGA (here) one day after the event.

Participation

This event is for the publics so anyone can join CBGA team to help with the count and without any charge but requested to prepare for their own food and water during the count.

Result for October Bird Count

For 2022, we counted 60 species of birds with 2 records for the first time in the area — White-faced Plover and Sanderling.

Here is a full checklist with number of birds seen:

1. Spotted Dove 15
2. Zebra Dove 2
3. Blue tailed Bee-eater 3
4. Oriental Pratincole 2000
5. Barn Swallow 26
6. Germain’s Swiftlet 38
7. Little Egret 25
8. Great Egret 20
9. Paddy field Pipit 4
10. Red throated Pipit 2
11. Eastern Yellow Wagtail 2
12. Little Comorant 1
13. Bar tailed Godwit 1
14. Common Greenshank 3
15. Black winged Stilt 5
16. Pacific Golden Plover 25
17. Little ringed Plover 27
18. Kentis Plover 2
19. Lesser Sand Plover 1
20. Red necked Phalarope 1
21. Long toed Stint 9
22. Tenmink’s Stint 5
23. Common Snipe 7
24. Red necked Stint 2
25. Wood Sandpiper 58
26. Common Sandpiper 5
27. Marsh Sandpaper 3
28. Eastern Jungle Crow 4
29. Black Drongo 5
30. Common Myna 10
31. Great Myna 20
32. Black collared Starling 2
33. Whiskered Tern 15
34. Pied Bushchat 2
35. Red Turtle Dove 2
36. Feral Pigeon 50
37. White winged Tern 1
38. House Sparrow 1
39. Scaly breasted Munia 6
40. Small Pratincole 1
41. Chinese Pond heronn 5
42. Intermediate Egret 2
43. Purple Heron 2
44. Greater Sand plover 1
45. White faced Plover ( first record at Chreav 2 )
46. Terrek Sandpiper 1
47. Curlew Sandpaper 3
48. Northern Brown Shrike 1
49. Cotton Pygmy goose 2
50. Indian Spot billed Duck 4
51. Sanderling ( first record at Chreav 3 )
52. Painted Stork 19
53. Black winged Kite 2
54. Pintail Snipe 5
55. Plaintive Cuckoo 1
56. Asian Pied Starling 3
57. Eastern Cattle Egret 1
58. Red Avadavad 5
59. Eurasian Tree Sparrow 1
60. Plain back Sparrow 1

If you are interested to join this event next year or want to organize your own one in your region, you may follow us on Facebook or our website to get the date and location.