On May 19, Yang Shengwen of the Hongxia State-owned Forest Farm of the Liupan Mountain Forestry Bureau found that there was a singing bird with a brown collar around its neck, wearing a brown coat, and its chest was dyed with chestnut longitudinal stripes. Qi Lin, director of the Chengdu Bird Watching Association and vice president of the Ningxia Bird Watching Association, identified the bird as a brown-necked hook-billed thrush. This discovery is the first record of Liupan Mountain and the first record in Ningxia.
In recent years, with the continuous increase of protection efforts, the ecological environment of the forest area has continued to improve, and the biological species of Liupan Mountain Nature Reserve have increased significantly, and birds have come here to settle down or live here. There are 64 species of mammals, 348 species of birds, 3,736 species of insects, and 18 species of amphibians and reptiles.
The brown-necked hook-billed thrush (scientific name: Pomatorhinus ruficollis) is a small bird with a body length of 16~19 cm. The mouth is slender and curved downward, with prominent white eyebrow lines and black piercing eye lines. The upper body is olive-brown or tan or chestnut brown, and the back of the neck is maroon-red. Chin and throat white, chest white with chestnut or black longitudinal lines, some without longitudinal lines and spots, the rest of the lower body olive-brown. The main foods eaten are stick insects, beetles, diptera, lepidoptera, hemiptera, etc., insects and insect larvae, and other small amounts of tree and shrub fruits and seeds, as well as plant foods such as grass seeds. Often moves alone, in pairs, or in small groups. During the breeding period, it often hides in the foliage and chirps, monotonously, crisply and loudly, three times a degree, like a 'tu-tu-tu' whistle, often chirping repeatedly. The distribution range of this species is very large, not close to the threshold of fragile and endangered species survival (distribution area or fluctuation range is less than 20,000 square kilometers, habitat quality, population size, distribution area fragmentation), and the population population trend is stable, so it is evaluated as a species without survival crisis.
Source: Liupan Mountain Forestry Bureau, Guyuan City, Liupan Mountain National Forest Park