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Cambodia to Mark International Vulture Awareness Day on Saturday
AKP Phnom Penh, September 02, 2021 --

The Cambodian conservationist group will mark the International Vulture Awareness Day on Saturday to attract more participation to vulture protection as the world population of vulture keeps decreasing.

The first Saturday in September each year is designated as International Vulture Awareness Day and is a way to show our appreciation for vultures and the ecosystem services they provide, according to Ministry of Environment’s Secretary of State and Spokesperson H.E. Neth Pheaktra.

“This is the sixth time that Cambodia has celebrated International Vulture Awareness Day. Cambodia participated in celebrating this day for the first time in 2016, as this day has been celebrated since 2006,” he underlined.

Vultures are a charismatic and ecologically vital group of birds. An often under looked species, they provide critically important ecosystem services by cleaning up carcasses and other organic waste in the environment. As nature’s clean-up crew, they prevent the spread of diseases from decomposing carcasses, reducing pathogenic risks to humans.

Over the world, vultures have been placed under severe threat in recent years, particularly due to poisoning. Globally, 75 percent of all vultures are threatened with extinction according to the IUCN Red List. During the 1990s, vulture populations in South Asia declined by 99 percent over a single decade due to poisoning by diclofenac, a Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug (NSAID) used to treat cattle.

In Cambodia, there are three vulture species–red-headed vulture, slender-billed vulture and white-rumped vulture. These three vulture species are under threats such as habitat loss, lack of food and poisoning.
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^^
Just to keep the legend alive, and the more mundane truth.

A flock of Vultures was reported flying around Phnom Penh in the few days after the Koh Pich/Diamond Island bridge collapse tragedy during the Water Festival 2010.
They were, in fact, Openbill storks.

However it does show that Khmers have similar, and strong, superstitions around vultures to many other cultures all over the world.
We westerners just see them through a rather base and entirely utilitarian lens - as 'scavengers'.
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SIX LESSER ADJUTANTS OR STORKS DUE FOR RELEASE
The Angkor Centre for Biodiversity Conservation will release six lesser adjutants free after rescuing and rehabilitating them.
This follows the release of seven birds earlier this year.
The release of the additional birds will happen between now and the end of November, depending on the accessibility of the selected release sites and Covid-19-related travel restrictions, she said.
ACCB released 80 animals into their natural habitats in 2020, four of which were lesser adjutants, and 43 animals this year.
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Cambodia News, Phnom Penh: Wildlife Alliance posted on social media of a case where a man in Phnom Penh donated an oriental pied hornbill by calling the Wildlife Crime Hotline.
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The bird was brought to Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre for rehabilitation. In time, we hope it can be released into its natural habitat.
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If you see any of these birds in captivity, please contact Wildlife Alliance. Call 012 500 094 or through the Wildlife Crime Hotline Facebook page in all instances.
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USAID promotes conservation of endangered bird species in Prey Lang
Orm Bunthoeurn | Publication date 03 October 2021 | 17:23 ICT
GREENING PREY LANG PROJECT

The US Agency for International Development's “Greening Prey Lang Project” (USAID-GPLP) is working with local communities and other partners to conserve the oriental darter and other endangered species found in the Prey Lang extended landscape.

According to USAID-GPLP, the oriental darter is a cormorant-like bird that is most at home in and around wetlands because its feathers are semi-permeable to water and this helps the bird when it is swimming and hunting fish.

It is sometimes called the snakebird because of its long thin neck and head that stay visible above the water while the rest of the bird is submerged below.

It lives in lakes, swamps and river habitats. This bird is found throughout the year in Cambodia and has large breeding grounds in the Prek Toal area of Tonle Sap Lake and some smaller areas in the north of Cambodia.

“This bird has a long neck like a snake, long beak that is sharp as a sword, black colour, long tail and long white stripes on the back,” it said.

It also noted that key bird species in the Prey Lang extended landscape are threatened by poaching, habitat destruction, and land encroachment.

Birds that lay their eggs on the ground are vulnerable to predators such as dogs, humans and other wildlife, while those that build their nests in trees are vulnerable to logging, poaching and land clearance for agriculture or settlement, it said.

Bird nest guardians protect against some of these threats and during the last breeding season between June 2020 and May 2021, a total of 127 nests and 232 chicks of endangered bird species were monitored and protected under the bird nest protection programme in Preah Vihear province supported by USAID-GPLP.

“During the year, the programme recruited 54 bird nest protectors from local villages to act as bird nest protectors during the breeding season, safeguarding the nesting birds and their chicks from threats. Species monitored this year included Giant Ibis, White-shouldered Ibis, Sarus Crane, Lesser Adjutant, Woolly-necked Stork, Black-necked Stork, Masked Finfoot, White-winged Duck, and Red-headed Vulture,” it said.

USAID-GPLP pays community members a daily rate for each nest they watch over.
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Oriental darter ^^ Snake bird

If you get a cormorant, hold the body between your knees, grab the head in your right hand, hold firmly.
and pull it back up and over your right shoulder, hard, full stretch
and that's what a Darter looks like.

I always thought they were solitary, cos that's how you usually see them. But then i stumbled across a breeding colony of approx 350 clumped onto 4 or 5 large flooded forest trees on a remote part of the lake one June. They are one of the few large waterbirds that nest in the rainy season.
I think they are one of the birds that are doing relatively well in Cambodia. ??

"Snake birds" maybe - but they will always be "Storm birds" to me.

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Is there any definitive answer as to the question of why are so many hornbills are in PP now ?
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blueman.cambodia wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:08 pm Is there any definitive answer as to the question of why are so many hornbills are in PP now ?
No idea, but the Hornbills in PP thread might answer your question.
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08/10/2021
New Lesser Adjutant colonies discovered
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Cambodia has announced that it has recently found two new breeding colonies of Lesser Adjutant, in a boost for the Vulnerable-listed species.

The colonies – one of which contains five nests and the other two – were located in the north of Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, Mondulkiri province. A wildlife monitoring team has since appointed nest guardians to watch over the birds.

Lesser Adjutant is listed as Vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List. There are around 5,500-10,000 left in the world and Cambodia is home to the world's largest population, estimated to be at least 3,000 individuals.

WCS Cambodia said the population is suspected to be rapidly declining as a result of a variety of threats, most significantly the harvesting of eggs and chicks from colonies, loss of nesting habitat and agricultural changes and intensification.

"Lesser Adjutants are also threatened by the damaging practice of poisoning pools to catch fish. Last year the wildlife monitoring team found four Lesser Adjutant nests, however none of the eggs hatched due to human interference," it said.
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Laughingthrush (Garrulax ferrarius)
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Cambodia News, (Phnom Penh): On the evening of October 10, 2021, the Ministry of Environment confirmed that the Cambodian Laughingthrush (Garrulax ferrarius) is a species of bird that is present only in the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia (endemic).
This species was first discovered in 1929 (Riley, 1930) and was re-established in Cambodia in 2000 (Steinheimer et al., 2000).
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This species is generally found in the high altitudes (700 m) of the Cardamom Mountains, such as the Oral Mountains Wildlife Sanctuary, Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary, and the Central Cardamom Mountains National Park.
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