Nandu News Reporter Liu Jun Correspondent Lin Yin Anyone who has seen "Birds and Dreams Flying" believes that they will never forget the birds that are the creatures of nature. We seemed to fly with the birds and soar in the sky. Through lakes, through fields, through swamps, through the sea, over canyons, over snow-capped mountains, over cities, over farms. In Guangdong, autumn and winter are a good season for bird watching.
Guangdong Province recently issued the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Protection and Management of Wild Animals", which requires that from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2023, the hunting of wild birds in the province will be completely banned. Under this opportunity, the Provincial Forestry Bureau also officially released the list of the first batch of top ten bird watching resorts in Guangdong Province, and under the situation of a total ban on the hunting of wild birds, it is believed that birds passing through Guangdong can also fly with dreams.
The top ten bird watching resorts in Guangdong are: Guangdong Nanling National Nature Reserve, Guangdong Haifeng Bird Provincial Nature Reserve, Guangdong Neilinglingdao-Futian National Nature Reserve, Guangdong Zhanjiang Mangrove Forest National Nature Reserve, Guangdong Guangzhou Nansha Wetland Park, Guangdong Zhuhai Qi'ao-Dangan Island Provincial Nature Reserve, Guangdong Nan'ao Migratory Bird Provincial Nature Reserve, Guangdong Maoming Electric Baishui Dongwan Mangrove Wetland, Guangdong Zhaoqing Xinghu National Wetland Park, Guangdong Yangjiang Yangxi County Beiliao Village Mangrove Forest Wetland.
The selection activity was sponsored by the Guangdong Forestry Bureau, and co-organized by the Guangdong Wildlife Conservation Association, the Guangdong Zoological Society, the Guangdong Wetland Conservation Association, the Guangdong Forest Park Association, the Guangzhou Nature Observation Association, the Shenzhen Bird Watching Association and other units.
Nandu reporter learned that there are currently 3 migratory bird migration routes passing through Guangdong: one is from Japan, the Taiwan Strait, Fujian, all the way into the Guangdong sea to the Philippines; the other two are from Siberia, one is along the coastline from Beijing, Dalian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Fujian to Guangdong, and the other is from Mongolia, Inner Mongolia to Beijing, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, and the Pearl River to Guangdong. Most of the top ten bird watching resorts in Guangdong selected this time are nature reserves, wetland parks and other natural protected areas, which are distributed along the coastline and migratory bird migration routes.
At present, Guangdong Province is promoting the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Waterbird Ecological Corridor Construction Plan (2018-2025)", and by 2025, Guangdong plans to build a waterbird ecological corridor in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, achieving the overall goal of population growth, distribution range expansion and significant improvement of waterbird habitats in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Experts teach you to visit the top ten bird watching resorts
●Guangdong Nanling National Nature Reserve
Species: Resident birds and migratory birds, such as fairy eight-colored plover, magpie-colored oriole, variegated, yellow-bellied horned pheasant, white partridge, yellow-billed chestnut woodpecker, spot-backed swallowtail, common nighthawk, red-winged grebe, Hainan tabby quail, etc., are also many bird species that bird watchers look forward to appreciating.
Time: All year round, from April to August, the breeding of resident birds is the mainstay, and a large number of migratory birds can be seen in the low-altitude river valley area from autumn and winter to the spring of the following year.
●Guangdong Haifeng Bird Provincial Nature Reserve
Species: water birds and migratory birds are the mainstay, there are a large number of wintering water birds and birds of prey. The Great Lakes Waterfront and Lian An Wai are the main places for the overwintering of the Plover and geese and ducks, where birds such as the black-bellied sandpiper, three-toed sandpiper, mallard duck and spot-billed duck overwinter here.
Time: From October to April of the following year, it is divided into spring and autumn migration season and winter, and the types are different.
●Lingling Island, Guangdong-
Futian National Nature Reserve
Species: water birds and migratory birds. Futian Mangrove Forest has 194 species of birds, of which 23 are rare and endangered species, and tens of thousands of long-distance migratory birds winter or stop in Shenzhen Bay every year.
●Zhanjiang, Guangdong
Mangrove Forest National Nature Reserve
Species: water birds and migratory birds. Resident birds (gulls, passeriformes), migratory birds (including cranes, storks, herons, birds of prey, etc.); and famous endangered birds spoon-billed sandpipers often stop in the reserve forage.
●Guangdong Guangzhou Nansha Wetland Park
Species: water birds and migratory birds are the mainstay, where wild ducks flock and herons stand, which together constitute the pearl river estuary wetland waterbird migration and breeding area in Nansha, Guangzhou, Mipu in Hong Kong, and Qi'ao Island in Zhuhai, and is known as the "migratory bird paradise" of the Pearl River Delta.
●Guangdong Zhuhai Qi'ao—
Dankon Island Provincial Nature Reserve
Species: In addition to the resident birds, a large number of migratory birds are attracted to stay or overwinter here every autumn and winter, such as the world's endangered bird black-faced spoonbill, and the rare passerine migratory birds in Guangdong such as the common Suzaku and the Mountain Wagtail
When: March to May, the best time to watch birds is 6:30-8:30 a.m., and from December to February, the best time to observe water birds varies according to the changes in the tides.
●Guangdong Nan'ao Migratory Bird Provincial Nature Reserve
Species: There are three species of birds that belong to the national first-level key protection, including the white-bellied warship bird, the white-tailed sea eagle and the short-tailed albatross. The South Australian Reserve is characterized by seabird watching, and it is a large number of breeding birds, which can easily observe the breeding behavior of birds, which is unique in Guangdong.
When: Breeding terns are the most spectacular in summer, and they need to go out to sea with the consent of the reserve to watch and follow the regulations to avoid disturbances.
●Guangdong Maoming electric white
Shuidongwan Mangrove Wetland
Species: all kinds of plovers, herons, gulls, etc., especially heron bird populations are abundant and easy to observe.
Time: morning, dusk, autumn and winter.
●Guangdong Zhaoqing Xinghu National Wetland Park
Species: At the most, there are tens of thousands of night herons, egrets, herons, pond herons and other birds roosting and breeding in the park, as well as pheasants, bead-necked doves, small white-waisted swifts, spotted woodpeckers, red-billed acacia birds, blue emeralds and so on.
When: Summer heron breeding season, winter migratory birds.
●Yangjiang Yangxi County, Guangdong
Beiliao Village Mangrove Wetland
Species: Common birds include small and medium-sized plovers such as the iron-billed sandpling; there are a variety of gulls and terns, almost all herons.
Time: Birds in all four seasons have their own characteristics, and the most abundant species are in autumn and spring. The best time to watch birds is the first 1-2 hours of the tidal flats. The feng shui forest of Beiliao Village and the surrounding farmland swamps also have a variety of forest birds suitable for morning and evening observation.