Orange-winged noisy stork Courtesy of
Yunnan Netnews (reporter Shen Xun correspondent Wu Taiping Zhao Zijiao Zheng Yuanyuan) Recently, in the process of carrying out the investigation of wild plant resources, the researchers of the DashanBao Black-necked Crane National Nature Reserve in Yunnan Met with a group of birds that are leisurely foraging in the bamboo forest, and recorded the images of this species with their cameras. After identification, this species is a national second-level key protected wild animal - Trochalopteron elliotii.
Orange-winged noisy grebe is a species of bird of the genus Thrush in the family Finches, medium in size, mainly feeding on insects and plant fruits or seeds, is an omnivorous bird, commonly found in mountain forests and shrubs at an altitude of 1500-4200 meters, especially likes to set small groups in open secondary forests, shrubs and bamboo forests, only distributed in eastern Tibet, southern Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, eastern Qinghai, northwestern Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Hubei, southern Hunan, the population is relatively rich, belongs to China's rare and endemic species, In February 2021, it was included in the Second Grade of the List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection.
This is the first time that the image of the orange-winged noisy stork has been taken in the Dashanbao Conservation Area, which will fill the gap in the lack of imaging specimen data on this species in the Dashanbao Reserve, and at the same time indicate that northeast Yunnan is also a suitable ecological distribution area for the species, which will provide a realistic basis for better protection and research of the species in the next step.