Which nature park in hongkong host endagered birds like the saunders gull and the black faced spoonbill?
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Mai Po Marshes is the correct answer.
Mai Po Marshes is a nature reserve located near Yuen Long in Hong Kong. It is part of Deep Bay, an internationally significant wetland that is actually a shallow estuary, at the mouths of Sham Chun River, Shan Pui River (Yuen Long Creek) and Tin Shui Wai Nullah. Inner Deep Bay is listed as a Ramsar site under Ramsar Convention in 1995, and supports globally important numbers of wetland birds, which chiefly arrive in winter and during spring and autumn migrations. The education center and natural conservation area is 380 acres (1.5 km2) wide and its surrounding wetland has an area of 1500 acres (6 km2). It provides a conservation area for mammals, reptiles, insects, and over 350 species of birds.
Hong Kong is the ideal location for bird watching, especially the Mai Po Nature Reserve is the home for thousands of migratory birds.
The Mai Po reserve and the surrounding inner deep bay wetlands is a prime example of conservation success and a scenic beauty to the tourists offering an explicit beauty to the wild life and beauty of nature.
It is home of 400 species of birds including the most endangered Saunders’s gull and the iconic black-faced spoon bill.