Jinan, August 23 (Xinhua) -- Recently, bird photography enthusiasts photographed more than 100 red-necked webbed sandpipers spinning and foraging on the surface of the water in the Wetland Park of Nanhai New Area in Weihai City, Shandong Province. The local forestry department said that such a large number of red-necked webbed sandpipers appeared en masse, which is relatively rare in China.
The red-necked webbed sandpiper is a marine bird, a rare transit migratory bird, which migrates through China in the spring and autumn every year, passing through the eastern coastal provinces, and appears in single or small groups in China, with less than 100 birds appearing on a large scale. This time, the red-necked webbed sandpiper will use the Nanhai New Area Wetland Park as a "station" to stop, replenish energy and continue to move.
According to the staff of the forestry department, for several consecutive years, the red-necked webbed sandpiper has appeared steadily in the wetland park of Weihai Nanhai New Area, which proves that there is a good local habitat ecological environment. The reporter learned that in the economic development and construction, the local ecological protection is placed in the first place, continues to increase the restoration of ecological resources, strengthens the ecological protection awareness of residents, and attracts more than 300 kinds of birds to inhabit here, including many relict gulls, Chinese autumn sand ducks, swans, white spoonbills, Mandarin ducks and other national first- and second-level protected animals, as well as endangered and critically endangered birds such as black-billed gulls, Aurora jays, and yellow-breasted buntings. (End)