Qinghai Gangcha, 29 Oct (China News Service) -- On 29 October, this reporter learned from the Qinghai Lake National Nature Reserve Management Bureau that the Qinghai Lake National Nature Reserve has carried out wild waterbird patrol and monitoring work in the area around the lake for five days from the 22nd. There were 32 species of waterbirds monitored, reaching more than 162,000, an increase of 16% compared with the same period last year, and the number of migratory waterbirds reached the highest peak in the past three years and the highest peak this year.
Tourists interact with water birds in the Qinghai Lake Scenic Area of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province on October 30. Photo by Ma Mingyan, a reporter from China News Service
As an internationally important wetland, Qinghai Lake is not only an important node for the migration of waterbirds in the world, but also an important wintering ground for waterbirds.
It is reported that a total of 32 species of water birds were monitored, more than 162,000, mainly red-billed diving ducks, red-headed diving ducks, green-winged ducks and other ducks, accounting for 84% of the total monitoring, and the beautiful shadows of winter migratory birds and giant swans also arrived as scheduled, reaching more than 330 Qinghai Lake.
It is reported that after the frost fell, it was the busy season of the waterbirds in Qinghai Lake moving south to the north, and the patrol monitoring was the second survey since September. In September, more than 122,000 waterbirds of 36 species were monitored, an increase of 45% over the same period last year, and the number of waterbirds in October increased by 16% over the same period of the previous year.
Giant swan is the main winter migratory bird in Qinghai Lake, is China's national second-class protected animals, belongs to the goose-shaped duck family, spring and autumn in northern China, Russia Siberia and other places to breed, every October from the breeding ground to Qinghai Lake for wintering, the end of March and early April of the following year Qinghai Lake after the thawing of the north to the breeding ground, the number of giant swans monitored by this survey and the same period last year. (End)
Source: China News Network