Walking on the river beach in the Yanbian Tianqiaoling forest area, you will be startled by the birds that suddenly fly between the sand and gravel, and when you are in place, the birds will stop not far from you, constantly watching where you stand. At this time, you should not think that it is curious to be disturbed by you, and perhaps the place where you are standing is right next to its nest. It is the golden plover known as the "native of birds".
The golden plover, a small bird of the family Plover family, is about 16 to 18 mm long. The golden plover often inhabits river beaches, rice paddies or along lakes. Often acting alone or in pairs, walking very fast, often foraging while walking, accompanied by a monotonous and delicate call. Usually rush for a distance, stop slightly, and then walk forward again. It mainly feeds on insects, but sometimes also eats plant seeds, worms, etc.
In recent years, the sheriff system and the forest chief system have been promoted and built in the Tianqiaoling Forest Area, and the Tianqiaoling Forest Public Security Bureau and the Tianqiaoling Forestry Bureau have actively promoted the implementation of the sheriff system and the forest chief system, and carried out the protection of animals, plants and birds in the forest area. All along, the staff of the Protection Department, together with the Tianqiaoling Forest Public Security Police, has gone deep into the forest area to actively carry out normalized protection publicity, indiscriminate hunting and hunting and crackdown operations, creating a good breeding and living environment for birds and animals. Through the unremitting efforts of the police and staff, the awareness of the staff and workers in the forest area to protect birds and animals has been significantly improved, the organisms on the land in the Tianqiaoling forest area have once again shown diversification, large animals such as tigers and leopards have settled in the forest area, wild migratory birds such as wild ducks, mandarin ducks, and egrets have also been visible for a long time, and even the small golden plover has increased year by year, and a beautiful ecological picture is gradually unfolding in the Tianqiaoling forest area.
Produced by Jilin Daily
Planner: Jiang Zhongxiao
Author: Yan Yancai Guo Guangdong
Editor: Ma He