After more than 30 years, Yunnan once again took the image of the brown-necked hornbill, a first-class protected animal

In late February this year, bird watchers in Yingjiang County, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, photographed a video of a brown-necked hornbill, and the accidental footage filled the gap in China's images of brown-necked hornbills in recent years.

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After receiving the relevant information, on March 7, local natural ecological conservation volunteers embarked on a "brown hunting trip" and successfully captured ultra-high-definition images of brown-necked hornbills on the same day. According to the observation and photography of the images, the three brown-necked hornbills are 2 males and 1 female, including a pair of adult birds and a juvenile bird, which strongly confirms the distribution of brown-necked hornbills in Dehong.

In the list of wild animals under national key protection just issued this year, the brown-necked hornbill is listed as a first-class protected animal and belongs to the large birds, with a body length of about 122 cm. The brown-necked hornbill usually lives in the wet evergreen broad-leaved forest of Zhongshan, and the areas recorded this time are densely forested and inaccessible, and have not been found for a long time. Because there are many areas in Yingjiang that are similar to the environment of the brown-necked hornbill photographed this time, the next step will be to increase the exploration of these areas and further explore their distribution and breeding in Yingjiang, so as to better study and protect this very precious species.

Brown-necked hornbills are mainly distributed in Yunnan and Tibet in China, and the well-documented images in Yunnan are pictures taken by photographers in Xishuangbanna in the mid-1980s. In the early 1990s, there were records of interviews with villagers in Yingjiang County, but there has been no video to testify.

Yingjiang County, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, is the county with the largest number of bird species in China, at present, the double-horned hornbill, the corolla crease helmet hornbill, and the crowned hornbill only have stable observation records in Yingjiang County, coupled with the brown-necked hornbill recorded this time, only the white-throated hornbill bird is recorded in The domestic recorded hornbill is only a white-throated hornbill to be found. (CCTV reporter Chen Zheng, Yin Yihu)

(Edited by Wang Yiran)