On October 12, the Spring City Evening News-Kaiping News reporter learned from the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Yunnan Province that a white-bellied pintail green dove appeared in the early morning of the 10th at the Phoenix Mountain Bird Ring Station of the Nanjian Pipe And Protection Bureau of the Yunnan Wuliangshan National Nature Reserve, refreshing the new record of birds in China, and nanjian Wuliangshan also became the first place in China to record the bird species.
At 18:25 on the afternoon of the 10th, this white-bellied pintail green dove was carefully examined by the staff and confirmed that it was healthy.
White-bellied pintail green dove, male overall olive green, thorax, waist and tail coverts lighter green; the sides of the neck are stained with light orange yellow, the back of the neck is gray-green; the upper wing wrist has small purple-red patches, the flight feathers are black, the feathers of the secondary flight feathers are goose yellow, the lower and subwing coverts of the flying feathers are dark gray, the abdomen is white, the tail feathers are grayish black, the central pair of tail feathers are specialized and extended and pointed, the rump feathers and the subtail coverts are bright yellow mixed with olive green, the inner ring of the iris is light blue, and the outer ring is red. The bare skin around the eyes and the base of the beak are brightly sky blue , the beak tip is gray , and the tarsals and toes are purple-red. The female resembles a male , but has no purple-red patches on the shoulder feathers and no light orange-yellow color on the side of the neck.
The white-bellied pintail green dove is mainly distributed in northern and central Laos, northern, central and southern Vietnam, and northwest to southeast Thailand. It generally inhabits primary forests and evergreen broad-leaved forests in tropical and subtropical mountainous and hilly areas, mostly at altitudes of 400 to 800 meters, up to 1525 meters high, and in winter it also wanders to the plains near the coast.
Located at the northernmost end of Wuliangshan National Nature Reserve, Fenghuang Mountain in Nanjian County is an important migratory bird migration channel in southwest China, with the characteristics of wide range of birds, large number, long time, variety, low flight height, etc., and is an ideal place for bird circumnavigation and research.
Since 1999 to the present, Nanjian Phoenix Mountain has carried out migratory bird rings for 21 consecutive years, releasing a total of 60,415 birds, belonging to 14 orders, 30 families, and 239 species, which has achieved remarkable results in the protection of migratory birds, and also provided a large number of detailed data for the scientific research and monitoring of wild migratory birds.
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