John's Hong Kong Birding

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28 Dec 2022

We three "Kings" at the Mai Po Boardwalk - Christmas 2022

Actually, there have been up to six Pallas’s Gulls (the “King of Gulls”) at the Mai Po boardwalk this month.



Posted by John Holmes at December 28, 2022 4 comments:
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