Kunming, 8 Oct (Xinhua) -- According to the Zhenyuan Management and Conservation Bureau of the Ailao Mountain National Nature Reserve in Yunnan Province, the Bureau recently reported that in the process of carrying out bird ring history at the Bird Ring Monitoring Point in Jinshan Yakou, it found a national first-class protected wild animal - tabby night snapper, which is an endangered bird estimated by experts to have less than 100 pairs in China's population, and is known as "the most mysterious heron bird".
On October 4, technicians equipped the tabby night thrush found in the bird ring with a satellite locator and prepared to release it into nature.
According to reports, because this bird is found to be extremely rare and widely distributed and scattered, its habit of diurnal and nocturnal, residence characteristics are unknown, migration paths are unknown, and no obvious breeding population is seen, so it is more mysterious.
Liang Tao, head of the scientific research and monitoring section of the Zhenyuan Management and Conservation Bureau, who participated in the bird ring, introduced that the tabby night quail, also known as the Hainan tabby flounder and the Hainan flounder, belongs to the heron family, with dark gray-brown upper body, black crown on the top of the head and feather crown, gray flying feather slate, and white underparts. Tabby night snapper is mainly distributed in China's Hainan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other provinces, the record of it is quite limited, in 2000 by the "IUCN Red List of Species" adjusted to the endangered (EN) level and maintained to this day, is now China's first-class protected wildlife.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
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