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Appendix 5: Bird Sub-group Report Status, Trends and Recommendations for Hong Kong Birds 1. Overview of Status and Trends Based on the updated information (December 2015) from the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society, a total of 538 species of wild bird have been recorded in the territory. Some are residents, while other species are considered to be visitors at different seasons on both a regular or irregular basis. The primary status of Hong Kong bird species is shown in Table 1 below: Table 1. Primary status of wild bird species in Hong Kong 1 2 3 4 5 Groups Resident Winter visitor Passage migrant Summer visitor Vagrant Total No. of species 112 (21%) 159 (29%) 129 (24%) 19 (4%) 136 (25%) 538 1: Winter visitor: majority of records in October to March. 2: Passage migrants, including both spring and autumn: majority of records in March to May and August to October 3: Summer visitor: majority of records between April to September 4: Vagrant refers to species with a handful records and usually on an irregular basis. 5: Sum of the species of all different groups is larger than the ‘total’ because some species could have different populations found in different seasons in Hong Kong. Among all the bird species found in Hong Kong, a total of 56 are listed as globally threatened or near-threatened by IUCN, including a total of 5 Critically Endangered species. 39 of these are regular residents or visitors to Hong Kong. All threatened bird species are listed in the appendix of this summary. Table 2. Bird species with global threatened categories found in Hong Kong Threatened category Critically Endangered Endangered