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RFI - Bintan Island off Singapore

To: "Mike Carter" <>
Subject: RFI - Bintan Island off Singapore
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 19:39:38 +1100
Sorry Mike, it is just a roost for both species, or at least I have not read of any breeding there, and I have not been out to the islet (Pulau Rengis) to check. Wells does not mention any breeding population in M'sia for either species in "Birds of the Thai-Malay Peninsula".

It is very pleasant sitting in the grounds of the Berjaya Resort coming up to sunset, with a bevvie in one hand and binos in the other and watch them wheeling in from over the S. China Sea in their hundreds to roost.

Carl Clifford


On 05/03/2009, at 7:04 PM, Mike Carter wrote:


From: "Carl Clifford" <>
To: "Steve Potter" <>
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 5:13 PM


Steve,
If you would like a nice after conference break on a tropical island, I would suggest Tioman, off the East coast of Malaysia. You can get there from S'pore easily by air or sea. The birding there is not bad, with the majority of the island coverd with rainforest and there is an island just off shore with a colony of Christmas and Great Frigatebirds.

Do you mean a BREEDING colony of Christmas Frigatebirds (or just a roost site)?

Great news if true because I thought this was a Christmas Island endemic and good if there was another breeding population from a conservation viewpoint.

Mike Carter
30 Canadian Bay Road
Mount Eliza  VIC 3930
Tel  (03) 9787 7136




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