Recently, the brown-necked hornbill was photographed for the first time in Dehong Yingjiang, Yunnan, filling the image gap of brown-necked hornbills in Yunnan for decades.
(Photo by He Haiyan)
The head and neck of the hornbill in the image are obviously brownish yellow, and the throat area is light blue, which was verified by Ban Dingying and Zeng Xiangle, a famous Chinese birdwatcher and head of the Yingjiang Bird Watching Association, that the hornbill is a brown-necked hornbill.
(Photo by Zhu Bianyong)
(Photo by Yin Yihu)
"There are a total of five species of hornbills in China, and the brown-necked hornbills are found in Yunnan and Tibet, and the well-documented images in Yunnan are images taken by photographers in Xishuangbanna in the mid-1980s. In the early 1990s, we had records of villager visits in Dehong, but there has been no video testimony. The images taken this time fully prove that the brown-necked hornbills are distributed in Yunnan and Dehong. Han Lianxian, a well-known Chinese ornithologist who has participated in many important scientific expeditions including the establishment of the Tongbiguan Provincial Nature Reserve in Yunnan, introduced.
(Photo by Zeng Xiangle)
"Brown-necked hornbills usually live in cold mountainous areas above 1500 meters above sea level, and there are many areas in Yingjiang that are similar to the environment of brown-necked hornbills photographed this time, and we will increase our exploration of these areas in the next step to further understand their distribution and breeding in Yingjiang, so as to better study and protect this very precious species." Zeng Xiangle said.
"For decades, brown-necked hornbills have only heard their names in Dehong, and this time it is a very, very exciting thing for us to take their images, and we will increase the search for the fifth type of hornbill, the white-throated hornbill, and strive to photograph them in Dehong as soon as possible." Ban Dingying said.
(Source: People's Daily client Yunnan Channel)