Next to the lotus pond in the bell tower of the West China Medical College of Sichuan University, early kingfishers come here to forage for food
On April 2, at the 38th "Bird Love Week" series of activities in Sichuan Province and Chengdu, the Sichuan Wildlife Conservation Association and the Chengdu Bird Watching Association jointly released the "Sichuan Best Bird Watching Land Guide 1.0", which includes information such as 41 species of China's endemic birds, 46 key bird areas and 10 best bird watching sites distributed in Sichuan Province.
In order to provide timely and accurate bird watching information to the majority of bird watching enthusiasts, eco-tourists and nature educators, and guide the healthy and orderly development of bird watching, the Sichuan Wildlife Conservation Association and the Chengdu Bird Watching Association for the first time began to compile the first "Sichuan Best Bird Watching Guide 1.0" in our province, which takes different habitat types, bird species representativeness, bird watching activity activity activity and the completeness of the basic supporting system as the standard, with a single point, and also a piece of area, covering plateaus, basins, mountains, Forests, wetlands, cities, villages and other diverse geographical and habitat types, both protected and non-protected.
The relevant person in charge of the Chengdu Bird Watching Association expressed the hope that this guide can bring more systematic and complete bird watching information to our province and even domestic and international bird watching enthusiasts, and provide useful help and support for promoting bird and biodiversity conservation, nature education, and eco-tourism in our province.
Top 10 bird watching resorts in Sichuan
Ruoerge Plateau
This area is one of the most important breeding grounds for black-necked cranes and one of the main breeding grounds for geese and duck birds in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau region. Ruoerge Plateau Wetland is the most beautiful wetland in China, in addition to watching birds, you can also enjoy the scenery of the wetland and feel the Tibetan culture.
Wolong - Balang Mountain - Mengbi Mountain
This is a relatively concentrated and representative area of the Qionglai Mountain System. This area is home to some very representative birds, such as the green-tailed rainbow pheasant, the red-bellied horned pheasant, the red-bellied golden pheasant, and the Tibetan snow chicken.
Palm Ridge
Bird watching in most places is chasing birds, but in Pam Ridge it is bird chasing people, so you can easily approach or even be in flocks of birds such as blood pheasants and Sichuan pheasants. Palm Ridge is also one of the bird spots for viewing the Great Purple-breasted Parrot. It is not difficult to find pseudo-large suzaku, colorful finch warbler, crested finch warbler, brown-backed black-headed plover, etc.
White Tower Lake
Baita Lake is an artificial reservoir built on the edge of a low mountain. In winter, some geese and ducks come here to overwinter, and some birds from the middle and high mountains migrate vertically to this activity. Blue bunting, spotted woodpeckers, gray-headed green woodpeckers, brown-bellied woodpeckers, etc. may be seen along the baita lake road.
Qionghai, Xichang
Qionghai is the largest wintering ground for water birds in Liangshan Prefecture, and a large number of water birds winter here every winter. There are Records of Chinese Autumn Sand Duck, Mandarin Duck, Colored Ibis, etc. Qionghai has a certain number of purple water chickens. In recent years, the pincer-billed stork has also been found in Qionghai.
Jiuzhaigou - Wang Lang
In the fairy tale world of Jiuzhaigou and a mountain across the Wang Lang is also a bird kingdom, in addition to the green-tailed rainbow pheasant, Sichuan forest owl, black-fronted mountain noisy owl, gray-crowned crow, black-headed noisy crow, Sichuan spiny wood finch and other bird species that bird watching enthusiasts are keen to chase, there are several kinds of songbirds such as black-throated songbird and brown-headed songbird that deserve attention.
Tangjia River
Bird watching enthusiasts have photographed the grey-crowned jay for the first time, making the Tangjiahe Nature Reserve quickly become one of the focal points for bird watchers, and it is also a good place to watch the green-tailed rainbow pheasant, the brown-headed singing plover and the black-fronted mountain noisy stork.
Duck River - Jinghu Lake
In the Chengdu Plain and even in China, it is rare to see so many water birds in urban wetlands such as the Duck River and Jinghu Lake. As a place for water birds to overwinter, these two places have a large number of geese and ducks, plovers, gulls and herons migrating through or staying here every year. In the meantime, the Chinese autumn sand duck is occasionally infested, and the gray crane is seen from time to time during the migration season. The critically endangered blue-headed diving duck has a relatively stable record of overwintering. The surprise of the yellow-billed diving bird, the red-breasted black goose, the great red stork, etc., adds more magic to the bird watching in these two places.
Sichuan University
Located in the hinterland of Chengdu City, the area around Luyang Village of The Wangjiang Campus of Sichuan University has become a bird watching spot in the city. The excitement here is mainly concentrated in the passeriformes and birds of the family Plover family, such as brown-bellied fairybirds, brown-bellied big fairybirds, orange-breasted cranes, white-browed ibises, orange-headed ground plovers, blue short-winged plovers, white-tailed blue-winged ibises, golden forest plovers, etc., many of which are new records for Sichuan birds.
Mount Emei - Wawu Mountain - Longcanggou
The area around Mount Emei, Wawu Mountain and Longcanggou, known as the "West China Rain Screen", has become an ideal habitat for many birds. In particular, it is the area with the highest concentration of domestic crows and finches, and most of them are endemic to China, such as dark crows and three-toed crows. The Grey-breasted Grebe, the Amount Offill, the Sichuan Spiny WoodFinch and the Three-toed Woodpecker also hide here.
Recommended for other bird watching spots
Longchang Guyu Lake, Leshan Sanjiangkou, Langzhong Jinsha Lake, Chengdu Qinglong Lake, Minjiang Meishan Taihe Section, Tsingyi River HongyaCheng District Section, Tongjiang Nuoshui River, Derge xin luhai and so on are also good places for bird watching. Every year during the spring and autumn migration season, Longquan Mountain on the east side of the Chengdu Plain and Longmen Mountain on the west side (such as Chongzhou West Mountain) are good places to watch the migration of birds of prey.
Chengdu Daily reporter Wang Linli intern reporter Cao Kaiyuan
Photography Zhang Almighty Cartography Cao Jinsong
Source: Chengdu Daily