Black-billed gulls
Yellow-breasted bunting
Dead gulls
Black Stork
On June 19, the State Forestry and Grassland Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the Directory of Wild Animals under National Key Protection (Draft for Solicitation of Comments). Many citizens are concerned, what are the recorded "quasi-national security" in Yangzhou? Our reporter combs through for you one by one.
Yangzhou's "quasi-national security" mainly focuses on birds, snakes, frogs and aquatic animals
Yangzhou is located in a plain area, coupled with the high degree of human activity, there are few wild animals, especially mammals. Weasels, squirrels, hedgehogs, badgers, pig badgers, etc., are common local mammals, but they are not included in the list of wildlife under national key protection.
Yangzhou's "quasi-national security" mainly focuses on birds, snakes, frogs and aquatic animals. Birds, in particular, have recorded "quasi-national security" in large numbers.
These birds in Yangzhou are "quasi-national security"
Hang Dequan, secretary general of yangzhou green poplar bird photography art center, told reporters: "Yangzhou has more than 280 bird records, many of which are 'quasi-national security'. ”
After collation, Hang Dequan found that the birds protected by the first class (including the proposed upgrade to the first class) are the great bustard, the black-billed gull, the widowed gull, the black stork, the oriental white stork, the black-faced spoonbill, the yellow-breasted bunting, the blue-headed diving duck and so on.
Hang Dequan introduced that the great bustard was recorded by bird watchers in Jiangdu in the 1980s, and has not been recorded since then; the black-billed gull, recorded in Yangzhou in the past 10 years, has been recorded 3-4 times, the first record was in the Daming Temple in the urban area; the remaining gull is the first record of Cao Zhaoyang and others at Yebao Station on Shaobo Lake; the black stork was recorded in Runyang Forest Park in 2015; the oriental white stork is common in Gaoyou and Baoying; the black-faced spoonbill was recorded for the first time in Shaobo Lake in 2015; the yellow-breasted bunting used to be a common bird in Yangzhou in winter. But in the past 10 years, only once in 2016 in a certain place in the north of the city; the blue-headed diving duck was recorded once in the wetlands along the Yangtze River, "Overall, among the recorded first-class protected birds in Yangzhou, except for the oriental white stork, which is more common, the rest are relatively rare or rare." ”
The list of national second-level protected birds, Yangzhou has recorded the Red Goose, White-fronted Goose, Little Swan, Mandarin Duck, Cotton, Flower-faced Duck, Little Crow, Spotted Field Chicken, Water Pheasant, Half-Webbed Sandpiper, Little Sandpiper, White-waisted Sandpiper, Big Sandpiper, Great Shore Sandpiper, Broad-billed Sandpiper, White Pippiper Heron, Crested HummingBird, Goshawk, Grey-faced Owls, Red-bellied Eagles, Crested Eagles, Sparrowhawks, Pine Eagles, Japanese Pine Sparrowhawks, Snake Eagles, Red-horned Owl, Eagle Owls, Long-eared Owls, Short-eared Owls, Eastern Horned Owls, Longitudinal-bellied Owls, Black-winged Kites, Black-eared Kites, Common Owls, Grey-faced Owls, Grey-backed Falcons, Red-footed Falcon, Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, Swallow Falcon, Amur Falcon, Black-crowned Falcon, Prairie Harrier, White-bellied Harrier, Magpie Harrier, Harrier, Yellow-bellied, Skylark, Aurora Crow, Red-billed Acacia, Red-throated Singing Plover, Blue-throated Singing Plover, White-throated Stone Plover, Yellow Finches, etc.
Among the second-class protected birds in these countries, the Aurora Ya bird is a rare bird species in Yangzhou, which can be seen in Gaoyou Lake; water pheasant and other pheasants have also been more common in recent years.
"Yangzhou has recorded 8 species of national first-class protected birds and 54 species of national second-level protected birds, for a total of 62 species." Hang Dequan said, "With the continuous bird watching, the bird species in Yangzhou will continue to increase, and the number of nationally protected birds will also increase." For example, among the birds that have been recorded at the national level, there are many new records in recent years, in addition to black-billed gulls, widowed gulls, and blue-headed diving ducks, there are crested hummingbirds, gray-faced eagles, snake eagles, longitudinal-bellied owls, black-crowned falcons, half-webbed sandpipers, small sandpipers, white-waisted sandpipers, large sandpipers, large coastal sandpipers, broad-billed sandpipers, white spoonbills, etc., which are all newly recorded bird species in recent years. ”
These snakes and frogs in Yangzhou are also "quasi-national security"
Mr. Jiang Duyu said that among the snakes, there are several kinds of "quasi-national security" Yangzhou, namely the black snake and the black-browed snake. The snake, also known as the snake, has a yellow or black yellow body surface and is non-venomous. It usually appears on reeds along the banks of rivers and lakes, barren grasses, or in fields near water sources. "The biggest snake I've ever seen weighs 3 pounds. Snakes prefer frogs and loach, and they are often coiled on thatch and have the form of mosquito coils. ”
Black-browed snake, commonly known as cauliflower snake, has black eyebrow stripes on both cheeks, the same size as the black snake, and the body pattern is cauliflower-like, non-toxic. It is generally active in places such as houses, abandoned buildings, and deserted kilns. The black-browed snake is particularly fond of eating rats, bats, small birds and other animals.
There is only one kind of "quasi-national security" in Yangzhou, that is, the tiger striped frog. Mr. Yu said that thanks to the improvement of the environment, in some townships in Jiangdu, the number of tiger frogs in recent years is quite considerable.
Finless porpoise will be upgraded to a first-class "national security"
Finless porpoises, the only remaining mammals in the Yangtze River, are small in number and are planned to be upgraded to national first-class protected animals in the list.
In the Yangzhou-Zhenjiang section of the Yangtze River, a group of finless porpoises is active all year round. In Yangzhou, there is also the Porpoise Conservation Volunteer Association, which has a special person responsible for inspecting the river every year to monitor the activities of the porpoise.
In addition, anchovies, one of the "three fresh foods of the Yangtze River", will be listed as a national first-class protected animal. Anchovies used to be a common river fresh in Yangzhou, but few fishermen have caught anchovies since the mid-to-late 1980s. The cochineal is a national second-class protected animal, and a few years ago, in the waters of Wanfu Gate, some anglers also caught cochineal (later released).
Reporter Xiang Jiafu