The weather in Changbai Mountain in early spring is getting warmer, and the ice and snow have not completely melted, but the cute elves have smelled the breath of spring.
The male head and upper back feathers are black, while the female's head feathers are tan. Their beaks and feet are red, and their bodies are similar to those of ordinary ducks, but the most conspicuous feature is their heads, which have long feathers on the top of their heads that protrude into a double crown.
From March to May every year, the Chinese mergansers enter the breeding season, they grow breeding feathers, plump feathers, bright and bright colors, frolic in pairs on the river, courtship, chase and fight, fish and grab food.
The Chinese merganser duck is a "living fossil" left over from the Tertiary glacial period. They have lived on Earth for more than 10 million years. In the Red Book of Endangered Animals of China: Birds, the Chinese merganser duck is a national first-class key protected animal, known as a "national treasure", and enjoys the reputation of "living fossil among birds", "giant panda among birds" and "ecological test paper of water environment". In the past few years, with the great improvement of the ecological environment of the waters in the Changbai Mountain area, hundreds of species of birds such as Chinese mergansers will settle here to raise their brooders every spring. Now, when you come to Changbai Mountain Global Geopark, it is not the only choice to go up the mountain to see the scenery, and interact with birds to check in and take pictures, which is becoming a beautiful landscape of harmonious coexistence between man and nature!
Source: Changbaishan release