Blue-throated bee tiger Xu Cheng
Recently, bird friends and film friends from many places across the country flocked to Tianchengtai Resort in Wushi Town, Leizhou, in order to shoot a humming tiger known as the most beautiful bird.
prey. Photo by Zhang Guoan
Hummingbird, known as the beautiful rainbow elves. According to reports, there are 26 species of bee tigers in the world, and 6 species in China. It has bright plumage, slender body, thin wings, and a curved mouth, often gathering small groups in conspicuous places such as branches and wires, catching insects such as bees, wasps, butterflies, dragonflies and so on, so it is called bee tiger. Every year in March and April, bee tigers fly from Southeast Asia, looking for dry and breathable river banks, sand walls to dig holes to nest, feed offspring, and after September, with their grown babies, migrate to southeast Asia further south for wintering, year after year, it has become a never-changing agreement.
Rainbow elves. Photo by Zhang Guoan
According to the person in charge of the Zhanjiang Bird Love Association, the hummingbirds in Zhanjiang are mainly distributed in Mazhang, Donghai Island and Leizhou, mainly chestnut-throated bee tigers, while Tianchengtai Resort in Wushi Town, Leizhou is one of the few places in China that has both chestnut-throated humming tigers and blue-throated humming tigers.
A tree of bee tigers. Photo by Xu Cheng
We can enjoy two species of hummingbirds in Leizhou Wushi Tianchengtai, depending on the protection of nature and birds at Tianchengtai Resort. I believe in the efforts of many forces, you and I carefully protect, this beautiful rainbow elf will come here year after year to multiply and breathe, and bring people a visual feast.
Here are a few pictures of hummingbirds taken by local filmmakers for the benefit of readers.
Chestnut-throated bee tiger. Photo by Xu Cheng
frolic. Photo by Guan Wei