CCTV News: Recently, a group of red-billed gulls who came to Kunming, Yunnan to spend the wintering, replaced them with "black veils" to breed feathers, began to set off again, set off to return north, and citizens and tourists seized the last opportunity to watch and take photos.
Since the first large-scale visit to Kunming for wintering in 1985, this group of migratory birds has become the ecological business card of Chuncheng. The red-billed gull has become an indispensable part of the city and has also continuously attracted tourists from other places to come and watch.
The spring in the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang is getting stronger, and migratory birds are dancing in the river wetlands
Recently, as the temperature gradually rises, the ice and snow in the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang are melting faster, and the spring is getting stronger, and the river wetlands have also ushered in the peak of migratory bird return.
In the Tekes River in the Yili River Valley, Xinjiang, as the ice melts faster, the wide river surface provides an ideal place for wild ducks to live in. On the river surface where the ice has not yet completely melted, thousands of mallard ducks are flocking, sometimes flapping their wings and sometimes diving into the water to play.
In the Guhai Wetland Ecological Park in Karamay City, more than thirty egrets and herons danced among the reed marshes. Egrets and herons swept across the ice and stood on the ice, moving and still, which is very interesting.
In the Gaojia Lake Wetland in Balikun County, Hami area, the white swans on the lake may be bent necked and comb their feathers or cruising together. Against the backdrop of snow-capped mountains and green lakes, a beautiful ecological picture is formed.
Shenyang, Liaoning: The spring river water is warm, the duck prophet, the vibrant migratory birds arrive
In the past two days, in Wolong Lake, Kangping County, Shenyang, Liaoning, migratory birds have added vitality to the lake surface.
As the ice and snow melt, more and more migratory birds migrate on the water surface of Wolong Lake in Kangping, Shenyang. Staff from the Management Center of the Protection Area told reporters that in Wolong Lake, Chunjiang Water Warm is indeed a "Duck Prophet". The duck birds are the vanguard of the migratory army. There are more than 100,000 migratory birds such as mallards, red ducks, flower-faced ducks, ribbed ducks, and bastard merganser. Among them, the national second-class protected animal, the flower-faced duck, often forms spectacular bird waves above the lake, with varying shapes, making people dazzling.
Kangping Wolong Lake Nature Reserve is located on the East Asia-Australia Channel, one of the eight largest migratory bird migration channels in the world, providing migratory birds with sufficient food and a suitable environment. According to statistics, there have been more than 270 species of water birds observed in the reserve, with a total of nearly 4 million migratory birds stopping here every year, with the highest observation record in a single day exceeding 160,000.
At present, in addition to the duck birds, large and rare migratory birds such as bean geese, wild geese, big swans, mute swans, and oriental white storks have also appeared in Wolong Lake one after another. Migratory bird migration is expected to reach its peak in late March.