Cambodia records 792 rare white-shouldered ibis in 2022 census

This undated photo shows white-shouldered ibis sitting in a tree in the Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary in Stung Treng province, Cambodia. - Vichet/BirdLife in Cambodia/Handout via Xinhua)

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Cambodia recorded 792 rare white-shouldered ibis in its 2022 census, an increase of 5 per cent from 755 birds in a year earlier, conservationists said on Thursday (Jan 12).

Bou Vorsak, director of BirdLife in Cambodia, said the census, jointly conducted by the members of the Cambodian Ibis Working Group (CIWG), found 377 white-shouldered ibis at Siem Pang Wildlife Sanctuary, 326 at the Mekong Flooded Forest, and 89 at Koh Srolauv, Kulen Promtep, Lomphat, Srepok and Phnom Prich Wildlife Sanctuaries.