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New Hainan client, Nanhai Net, Nanguo Metropolis Daily January 16 news (reporter Wu Yuewen) 3 women and 2 men, 5 investigators soaked in the cold sea water, shoulder camera, holding a telescope, struggling to find wintering water birds. This is a scene that the reporter saw at 2 p.m. on January 16 at the seaside in Nanxing Village, Huiwen Town, Wenchang City.
Spring fragrance bird hunting. Photo by reporter Wu Yuewen
On the same day, the Hainan Bird Watching Association, haikou Haolan Wetland Research Institute, Wenchang Qinglan Mangrove Forest Provincial Nature Reserve and other units carried out synchronous surveys in 50 waterbird habitats along the coast of Hainan. Hainan wintering waterbird survey since 2003 once a year, never interrupted, so far carried out for 17 consecutive years, the survey is both a scientific expedition activity, but also a citizen science activity, in addition to obtaining rich survey data, but also cultivated a group of native bird enthusiasts, is the longest lasting and most influential bird survey activities on Hainan Island.
Mongolian sand plover. Hainan Bird Watching will provide a picture
Chun Xiang is an unmarried Danzhou girl who became fascinated by bird watching while studying at Hainan University. For 10 years, she has tanned her skin because she often goes out to investigate birds, but in exchange for the title of "bird expert", she is now familiar with various birds and their habits.
Warp-billed sandpiper. Hainan Bird Watching will provide a picture
On January 16, Chun Xiang and four team members rushed from Haikou to Wenchang Huiwen Town early in the morning. Huiwen Wetland is located on the northeast coast of Hainan Island, and the coastal wetlands around Bamen Bay to Fengjia Bay are about 15 kilometers long, 1 to 4 kilometers wide, and an area of about 45 square kilometers. Huiwen Wetland includes most of the types of "offshore and coastal wetlands" in China, and is called "textbook tropical coast". The most distinctive feature is that mangroves, seagrass beds and coral reefs are distributed in bands and stacks at the same time, which is very rare in China.
Spoon-billed sandpiper. Hainan Bird Watching will provide a picture
The seashore of Nanxing Village in Huiwen Town is covered with dense mangroves, and Chun xiang and his team need to walk through more than 1 kilometer of sea water to reach the beach. The sea is covered with sand and gravel, and if you are not careful, your feet will be cut. Some of the beaches were soft, and if they accidentally sunk their legs into them, the deeper they struggled, and they had to ask their companions for help to pull them out.
Black-winged sandpiper. Hainan Bird Watching will provide a picture
"Water birds like to forage on the beach, and crabs, shellfish, fish and marine life are their favorites. Only if you are close, you can take good photos. "In order to find a variety of cute water birds, Haruka soaked in the seawater, eyes searched through the telescope, a stop is more than 10 minutes, motionless. After a busy day, my waist and feet hurt. There are also new discoveries that excite Haruka, and she sees a very rare little blue-footed sandpiper and a yellow-billed egret here, and she is happy. Huiwen Wetland is the only distribution point of the small blue-footed sandpiper in Hainan for more than 10 years. Unlike starlings, which prefer to move in flocks, some birds prefer to "go alone in the cold", and the little blue-footed sandpiper is one of them. The little blue-footed sandpiper is a globally endangered bird with a very small population, generally breeding in Places such as Sakhalin Island in Northeast Asia, and will pass through some of China's eastern coastal provinces when migrating. Chunxiang said that the previous Survey Report of Huiwen Wetland released by the Hainan Bird Watching Association showed that the small blue-footed sandpiper had been recorded in Hainan three times in the past hundred years, and three times in Wenchang Huiwen, the number was 1, which showed that the record of the small blue-footed sandpiper in Huiwen was relatively stable, on the other hand, it also showed that it was very rare.
Black-faced spoonbills. Hainan Bird Watching will provide a picture
On January 16, through a day's search in the mudflats of Huiwen Town, five investigators found more than 20 kinds of birds, including 1 white-breasted emerald, 25 iron-billed sandplings, 64 Mongolian sandpipers, 1 blue-footed sandpiper, 45 red-necked sandpipers, 47 black-bellied sandpipers, 7 gray-spotted sandpipers, 5 Ze sandpipers, 1 Pan stone sandpiper, 1 red-footed sandpiper, 1 heron, 5 broad-billed sandpipers, 4 medium egrets, 65 egrets, 1 magpie partridge, 5 family swallows, 1 blue emerald, 3 pond herons, and 1 three-toed sandpiper. "Previously, we recorded six species of rare and endangered birds in huiwen, namely the black-winged kite, peregrine falcon, yellow-billed egret, little blue-footed sandpiper, collared owl and brown-winged crow, as well as the iUCN vulnerable animals, the great sandpiper and the near-threatened red-bellied sandpiper." Investigator Haruka said.
"Huiwen Wetland, as the place with the largest number of wintering waterbird species and numbers on the east coast of Hainan, accounts for about 50% of the waterbird species recorded in the survey. Rare and endangered birds have been observed in recent years, including the small blue-footed sandpiper, the great sandpiper, the great sandpiper, and the long-billed sandpiper. Huiwen Wetland has been rated by the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other units as one of the ten most noteworthy coastal wetlands in China. Investigator Yuan Langxing told reporters that he went to forests, wetlands and parks to look for traces of birds... Nowadays, with the gradual rise of ecotourism, bird watching is also becoming a leisurely way for people to get close to nature.