On April 19, the gray-crowned warbler Wang Xuefeng photographed in Jiefang Park
On April 20, Mian Kai appeared on the water surface of Yangchun Lake Park, photographed by Yao Bo
According to the Wuhan Bird Watching Association, in recent years, the ecological environment in Wuhan and its surroundings has gradually improved, the urban green area has been expanding, the citizens' enthusiasm for bird watching has increased, and the bird population has increased significantly, the association has organized members to regularly carry out bird monitoring activities in key areas of Wuhan, increasing the observation coverage and observation opportunities, effectively covering all kinds of different types in Wuhan area, and creating more and more abundant bird observation record reports. As a result, the list of birds in Wuhan has increased rapidly from 353 species in 2013 to 409 species now. There are more than 9,000 species of birds in the world, there are 1186 species in China, and birds have been observed in Wuhan accounting for about 1/3 of them, so let's take a look at what new members of the Wuhan bird family are.
New Members ·
Liberation Park flies "Grey-crowned Warbler"
Yangtze River Daily News (correspondent Wang Xuefeng, Zhao Qin, reporter Yang Xiaoyu) Recently, it is the migration season of migratory birds, and a large number of migratory birds are transiting through Wuhan. On April 19, Veteran Bird Watcher Lei Jinyu found a grey-crowned warbler in Jiefang Park, a downtown area, setting a new record for bird species in Wuhan, and the distribution record 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.
Tao Jianming, a photography enthusiast who often shoots birds in Jiefang Park, introduced that there are many common birds in Jiefang Park, including kingfishers, black-faced noisy eyebrows, spotted doves, willow warblers, brown-headed crows, red-headed long-tailed, magpie finches, black water chickens and so on.
As a large natural ecological park in Wuhan, Jiefang Park is distributed with hills, forests, lawns and lakes, and the diversity of natural resources has created good conditions for the survival of birds.
Cheng Benze, director of the Wildlife Protection Department of the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Gardens and Forestry, said that Jiefang Park is a good place for birds and people to coexist in harmony.
Grey-crowned warbler:
The breeding area is mainly in the southwest mountainous area, north to the Qinling Mountains at an altitude of 1400-2500 meters above sea level in evergreen broad-leaved forests or bamboo forests. It is an occasional migratory transit bird in Wuhan, where there were no previous observation records.
Cotton (Nanjing Duck):
Cotton duck is a kind of wild duck, because it was first found in Nanjing, it is also called "Nanjing Duck", but "Nanjing Duck" rarely appears in Nanjing. Listed as rare by the Red Book of Endangered Animals of China, the cotton bird is a summer migratory bird that spends the entire summer in Wuhan, but is rare because it is rare in number.
Old Friends ·
Yangchun Lake Park welcomes back "Nanjing Duck"
In Wuhan, it has disappeared for 50 years, and the central urban area has been monitored for the first time
Yangtze River Daily News (reporter Peng Yuying) on the 20th, in Yangchun Lake Park, Hongshan District, Wuhan City, a group of primary school students under the leadership of bird watching teachers found a rare water bird - the figure of cotton. This is the first monitoring record of this species of birds in the park in the central urban area of Wuhan.
At 9:00 a.m., Yangchun Lake Park welcomed 800 bird-loving volunteers who walked into Yangchun Lake Park, learned bird knowledge and on-site bird watching, etc., to enter nature, integrate into nature and protect nature.
The Yangtze River Daily reporter accompanied the bird watching station, and bird watching enthusiasts have set up telescopes and cameras to pay close attention to the bird situation in the surrounding wetlands. Suddenly, bird watching enthusiast Yao Bo said in surprise: "Cotton skulls have been found, this bird is not common!" The Yangtze River Daily reporter saw in the telescope that in a piece of water not far away, there was a small duck with a white head and a black bill, which was the world's thinnest water duck - cotton. Yao Bo is a veteran birdwatcher, and he has observed 350 of the 409 species of birds in Wuhan.
Yan Jun, president of the Wuhan Bird Watching Association, recalled that the bird of cotton has disappeared in Wuhan for nearly 50 years, 10 years ago, bird friends from other places came to Wuhan to see the cotton, the first two years, in the Fuhe river and the Yangtze River Wuhuidi cotton monitoring situation is also relatively stable, this time in the central urban area to monitor the cotton is really too rare, indicating that the number of cotton is growing, the breeding area is expanding, people do play a role in the protection of birds. Yan Jun said that April is the breeding season of cotton, and they are likely to breed in Yangchun Lake Park, and if a breeding area can be formed here, it will be a very meaningful thing. In addition to the cotton, a variety of birds such as egrets, night herons, pond herons, cattleback herons, and black water pheasants were also monitored at the scene.
With the continuous improvement of the ecological environment, Hongshan District has also attracted more birds to inhabit. In two years, the number of habitat birds has increased from 167 in 2016 to 250. Last winter and this spring, the National First-Class Key Protected Bird Oriental White Stork first appeared in Hongshan District, and another national first-level key protected bird, the Black Stork, has been roosting on the Yangtze River beach for 6 consecutive years, and its number has gradually increased.