Laoshan district of Nanjing
On March 31, 2013, Maggie Cheung et al. of Nanjing Forestry University stumbled upon a bird species [dōng] that was active on the ground in the forest near Jiufeng Temple in Laoshan, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, at coordinates (118°89′21"E, 31°32′75"N).
Fig. 1 Red-necked plover
As seen in the picture: its cheeks, the top of the head, the dorsal wings are grayish brown; the beak, fore neck, upper thorax are red, and the entire abdomen and subtail coverts are white. Through the comparison of bird species taxonomy data ( John, Ma Jingneng et al. 2000 ) , it was initially identified as the male red-necked grebe (Turdus ruficollis).
November 11, 2015 The author team again discovered the red-necked thrush in the Laoshan area of Nanjing.
Observational distribution of the red-necked plover in Nanjing, Jiangsu Source: China Bird Records Center
Data query by China Bird Records Center (http://www. birdreport.cn), records show that in addition to Nanjing, there were observations of the species in Yancheng, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, on October 15, 2017.
According to the current observations of the time of this bird species: March 31, November 11 and October 15, it can be preliminarily judged that the red-necked bird is a rare winter migratory bird in Jiangsu.
A red-necked bird eating a sand date
The red-necked plover belongs to the family Turdidae, which mainly inhabits coniferous forests, broad-leaved forests or montane shrublands, and occurs in plains, hillside shrublands or lawns during migration.
The distribution of the red-necked plover is recorded in China
The species breeds in north-central Asia each spring and migrates southward to Pakistan, China and Southeast Asia for wintering. In China, it mainly settles in the northeast, north China, northwest and other northern regions.
Observations in Nanjing city have found a new record species of bird distribution in Jiangsu.
Resources:
Maggie Cheung, Xia Ning, Chen Tai-yu, Lu Changhu*, Chinese Journal of Zoology 2021, 56(3): 440, 448