Green group warns of disturbance to Hong Kong seabird breeding island during holiday
A conservation group has raised concerns about people landing on an uninhabited island in Hong Kong known for its seabird breeding population during the Labour Day 'Golden Week' holiday. The landings occurred during the birds' crucial breeding season.
A green group has spotted people landing on an uninhabited island in the southern Hong Kong waters known to be a regular breeding site for a seabird species during mainland China’s Labour Day “golden week” holiday, which coincides with its breeding season. Terns, known as “sea swallows”, are seabirds with typically white or light grey streamlined bodies, long pointed bills and forked tails. While about 40 tern species exist globally, one-third of them, or 12, have been recorded in Hong Kong....