Grey-crowned warbler in Wuhan Jiefang Park (Photo by Wang Xuefeng)
People's Daily Wuhan, April 20 -- Recently, it is the migration season for migratory birds, and a large number of migratory birds are transiting in Wuhan. On April 19, a citizen found a gray-crowned warbler in Wuhan Jiefang Park, which set a new record for bird species in Wuhan, and the distribution of birds in Wuhan reached 409 species.
Subsequently, many members of the Wuhan Bird Watching Association went to the scene to shoot the image data of the warbler. According to the photographs taken, the warbler is yellow-green, has no wingbands, has a grayish-blue crown on the top of the head, black crown stripes and side crown stripes are obvious, the orbit is yellowish white, and there is a missing moment in the posterior edge of the eye circle.
According to Lei Jinyu, a veteran bird watcher, the breeding area of the grey-crowned warbler is mainly in the southwest mountains, north to the Qinling Mountains at an altitude of 1400-2500 meters in the evergreen broad-leaved forest or bamboo forest. It is an occasional migratory transit bird in Wuhan, where there were no previous observation records.
Yan Jun, president of the Wuhan Bird Watching Association, said that in recent years, the group of bird watching enthusiasts in Wuhan has been growing, and the association has organized its members to regularly carry out bird monitoring activities in key areas of Wuhan, increasing the observation coverage and observation opportunities, effectively covering various habitats in Wuhan, creating more and more abundant bird observation records, making the list of birds in Wuhan rapidly increase from 353 species in 2013 to 409 species now. (Wang Guoji, Zhao Qin)
(Editor-in-charge: Zhou Tian, Zhang Jun)