White Spoonbill is nicknamed "Beauty in White" and "Beauty in Bird" with its beautiful flying posture and flexible predation. (Data photo) Photo provided by Nanjing Yangtze River Xinjizhou National Wetland Park Management Center
China News Service Nanjing, October 28 (Reporter Shen Ran) It is late autumn, and it is the winter migratory season. On the 28th, a reporter from China News Service learned from the Nanjing Yangtze River Xinjizhou National Wetland Park Management Center that as the ecology in the wetland becomes increasingly high-quality, it has attracted the favor of a large number of "residents" overwintering. Starting from the 26th of this month, the first batch of "beauties in white" white spoonbills (grade 2 protected animals) this year have arrived one after another, indicating that the Xinjizhou Wetland is about to usher in the peak of migratory bird migration.
Last year, the white spoonbill, a star species that was popular in the Xinjizhou Wetland of the Yangtze River in Nanjing, was loved by the general public and was nicknamed "Beauty in White" and "Beauty in Flying Bird". According to statistics from the Management Center, only last winter and this spring alone, there were 891 white spoonbills that overwintered in the Xinjizhou Wetlands in Nanjing, accounting for 5.77% of the total population in East Asia-Australia.
staff were surprised to find the first batch of white spoonbills this year during the daily monitoring of the wetland conservation area. Photo provided by Nanjing Yangtze River Xinjizhou National Wetland Park Management Center
On October 26 this year, staff were surprised to find the first batch of white spoonbills from this year's "beating the front station" during the daily monitoring of the wetland conservation area. In the surveillance camera, more than a hundred white spoonbills swam freely and forage among wetlands and swamps, which seemed very "familiar".
According to Li Quanwen, director of the Office of the Nanjing Yangtze River Xinjizhou National Wetland Park Management Center, as the ecology becomes increasingly high-quality, the flood plain wetlands, swamps and other areas in the Xinjizhou Wetlands not only provide important stopping and wintering grounds for more than 60 species of overwintering migratory birds on the East Asia-Australian migratory bird migration channel, but also provides important breeding grounds for a total of 112 species of summer migratory birds, resident birds, , etc. The shore wetlands, which are gradually generated by sandbanks and beaches, provide a rich source of food and suitable habitats for many migratory waterfowls. "At present, there are flower-faced duck , white spoonbills, ordinary cormorant , ribbed duck , ribbed duck , spotted back diving duck . There are 5 species of waterfowls, all exceeding 1% of the East Asia-Australia regional population. It can be said that it has become a 'resort' of rare waterfowls."
"According to our observations in previous years, around the beginning of December, flower-faced ducks (second-level protected animals) will migrate to Zimuzhou and Zihuizhou in large numbers. At the peak last year, 23,962 flower-faced ducks were observed in the above two continents, and the flower-faced ducks are smaller than white spoonbills. At the peak last year, 23,962 flower-faced ducks were observed in the above two continents, and the flower-faced ducks are smaller than white spoonbills. Many, but such a large-scale flower-faced duck comes here to spend the winter, the white spoonbills must be obediently 'avoiding', and all 'moved' to the larger Xinshengzhou, and be neighbors with Oriental White Storks (first-class protected animals), ordinary cormorants, etc. "The staff of the management center described the daily status of the wetland "guests" to reporters: the black cormorant , with the whole body, is always drying its wings and doing what they want; the Oriental White Storks look cold and posing as "no one to approach"; the white spoonbills are usually formed in their own groups. In addition to queuing and preying, they can only bury their heads in their wings and sleep "golden roosters independently". "All kinds of birds do not interfere with each other, and they are very leisurely and contented."
However, Li Quanwen told reporters that since the water level of the Yangtze River basin this year has dropped significantly compared with previous years, the water surface locations of various continents of Xinjizhou Wetland have also changed. The management center is also paying close attention to the changes in the wintering habitat of white spoonbills, as well as the migration status of other migratory birds such as flower-faced ducks and oriental white storks. "After about mid-December, migratory bird migration in Xinjizhou wetlands will reach its annual peak, and a more spectacular bird picture can be seen at that time." (End)
Source: China News Network
