According to the official microblog of the Shanghai Municipal Government Information Office, a citizen of Shanghai recently found a gray-black bird next to the pillar of the Lujiazui Ping'an Building in Pudong, and it was identified that this simple-looking bird was a black fork-tailed petrel. This is also the first time in nearly a hundred years that a black fork-tailed petrel has been found in Shanghai.
The hydrobates monorhis is a small seabird with a dark grey-brown upperpart and dark greyish grey under the wings. The most typical feature is the long, forked black-brown tail. Because the petrels are pelagic seabirds, resting and foraging on the surface of the sea, feeding on fish, molluscs, crustaceans and plankton, etc., it is rare in the coastal areas of East Asia.
Black fork-tailed petrel is distributed in Shandong, Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan provinces in China, and is very rare in Shanghai. In September 1922, a black fork-tailed petrel was found in Wusongkou, Shanghai, and the bird was not heard from in Shanghai. Nearly a hundred years later, in 2017, this bird reappeared in Shanghai, which is very rare.
The reason why this bird that has not been seen in a hundred years can appear in Shanghai has a lot to do with the previous activities of the super giant typhoon Lann in East Asia. Lane is one of the biggest typhoons of the 21st century, and even after making landfall in Japan thousands of miles away, Shanghai and Zhejiang on China's eastern coast were hit by high winds.
In the face of such a giant typhoon, Haiyan, who lives in East Asia, is easily lost by the wind, and a small part of it is mistakenly hit and hit by the storm and brought to the east coast of China, breaking into Shanghai, which has not been seen in a hundred years.