Qilu Network Lightning News October 21, 2019 Golden autumn October is the season of harvest and the season of migratory birds moving south. Tens of thousands of birds were found in the Yellow River beach area of Dongming City, Heze City, where tens of thousands of birds roosted and wintered, and flocks of geese soared and sounded, adding vitality and vitality to the southwest land of Lunan.
The reporter learned from the Dongming Forestry Bureau that the total number of migratory birds that inhabit the winter in the Yellow River beach area of Dongming has reached 150,000, and among these migratory birds, there are white swans and white-fronted geese, as well as bean geese, gray geese, and hong geese. Every November, these migratory birds travel long distances from inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and even Siberia in the north to winter in the Yellow River beach area of Dongming, staying until March of the following year, and have not stopped for eight consecutive years. From the earliest 20,000 or 30,000 to more than 100,000.
The Dongming County Forestry Bureau actively carries out the work of containing and rescuing wild animals. In the past month, a total of 18 wild animals have been rescued, and a total of 9 species of wild animals have been rescued, including the common owls, short-eared owls, kestrels, and longitudinal belly owls of wild animals under national key protection, and the white egret, a key protected wild animal in Shandong Province, and the national "three haves" protected terrestrial wild animal pond heron, spotted fish dog, capuchin magpie, etc. All wild animals that meet the conditions for release after rescue are released into the natural environment, and those that are not suitable for release are properly sheltered.
In recent years, with the improvement of the ecological environment and the legal protection of migratory birds, the population and number of migratory birds that come to the Yellow River beach area of Dongming with seasonal climate change every year continue to increase. In order to protect the safety of migratory birds and maintain ecological balance, at the beginning of November every year, the staff of Dongming County will observe and patrol the distribution areas of geese clusters every day, especially the main activity areas of rare and endangered wild animals, and organize volunteers to carry out wildlife protection publicity and education in villages along the Yellow River to escort these "guests" who come from afar.
Lightning News reporter Liu Yinchun Wang Yukang correspondent Wang Haiming Yang Yongjie