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Cover news reporter Liu Kesheng
On February 14, bird watchers recorded the blue-headed diving duck, a critically endangered species around the world, in Longhu Park, a new city in Zigong City, Sichuan Province. It is reported that this is the first time that the blue-headed diving duck has appeared in Zigong. In a national synchronous survey of the overwintering period of blue-headed diving ducks conducted in January last year, only more than 1,500 were recorded.
After eating the Group New Year meal, bird watching
Citizens use cameras to photograph blue-headed diving ducks
"On the third day of the Chinese New Year, we had dinner with two friends who had returned from Chengdu." Shen Yumo, a bird watching enthusiast of the Zigong Bird Watching Association, introduced that after eating, the weather was very good, and two friends proposed that we take their two babies to experience what bird watching is.
Shen Yumo introduced that in Longhu Park, one of the small group of white-eyed diving ducks on the water surface looks quite special from the telescope. So we took a picture of it with the telephoto lens we carried with us and zoomed in. At first glance, it was really the blue-headed diving duck that had been looking for! ”
On the right is the blue-headed diving duck
It is understood that with Shen Yumo, the blue-headed diving duck was also found by Li Yifan, who is also a bird watching enthusiast. "The newly released List of Wild Animals under National Key Protection on February 5 this year has listed the blue-headed diving duck as a national-level key protected wild animal. I was taking my friends to experience bird watching, but I didn't expect to see a 'national one' at a glance! Li Yifan quipped.
It is rare to appear in Zigong
It usually inhabits the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River during the overwintering period
"This is the first time Zigong has observed a blue-headed diving duck, which usually overwinters in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River." Shen Yumo introduced to the cover news reporter that Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces are already the western boundary of the wintering area of the blue-headed diving duck, so it is not easy to observe the blue-headed diving duck in Zigong.
Judging from the pictures taken, the blue-headed diving duck has a green luster on its head, white eyes, and black-brown upper body, and it is playing in the water with white-eyed diving ducks and bone-top chickens. "The blue-headed diving duck is an omnivorous bird that feeds mainly on aquatic plants, fish, shrimp and shellfish."
The middle is a blue-headed diving duck
Only more than 1500 have been recorded nationwide
The discovery of urban parks is a rarity
"The blue-headed diving duck is a genus of geese in the family Duck family and is listed as a Critically Endangered Species (CR) on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species." Li Yifan introduced that the national synchronous survey of the overwintering period of the blue-headed diving duck carried out in January last year only recorded more than 1,500 individual blue-headed diving ducks.
It is reported that since its establishment in 2015, the Zigong Bird Watching Association has been committed to the investigation of local wild birds, and every winter in the various waters of the territory to find the critically endangered species of blue-headed diving duck, but its nature is timid, like to inhabit the still water shallows far from humans, the observation difficulty is high, and the discovery in Longhu Park is really rare.
Longhu Park, located in Yantan New Town, also has water birds such as bone-top chickens, white-eyed diving ducks, red-headed diving ducks, crested diving ducks, and red-winged ducks come to winter, which is a rare wintering migratory bird habitat in Zigong City. Therefore, the Zigong Bird Watching Association also calls on the general public and park management to jointly protect this migratory bird wintering land, not to harm and disturb wild animals, to maintain the original appearance of the water, and to give the migratory birds a comfortable and safe home.
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