Number of Migratory Birds Passing Through Hunan Sanshan National Park Reaches Historic High
Source: Heshang Online
Heshang Online, March 26th (Hunan Daily·Heshang Online Correspondent Tang Cheng yuan) With the weather warming up, migratory birds are flying north. Located in the southwestern border region of Hunan, Hunan Sanshan National Park is continuously increasing monitoring efforts, strengthening patrols and control, protecting wetland resources, and providing a safe habitat and migration environment for transiting migratory birds. From February to present, the park’s Jin Gangshan National Nature Reserve and Baiyun Lake National Wetland Protection Zone migratory bird observation stations have monitored the number and species of transiting migratory birds reaching 104 species and 907,000 individuals. This is an increase of 90,000 compared to the same period last year, a historical high.
Hunan Sanshan National Park is located at the southwestern border of Hunan in the Yuechengling Mountains and the Shaping Mountains, intersecting in the county of Chenbeima. It has a forest area of 3.29 million acres, and the park has two thousand-year migratory bird migration channels. Every autumn and winter, migratory birds migrate south to the spring flowers bloom the next year, which is the main season for migratory birds migration. Every day, large numbers of migratory birds rest in the county’s forest areas, supplementing their energy and food, then migrating out in groups.
In recent years, to ensure the smooth completion of the migration of migratory birds, Hunan Sanshan National Park Administration, together with the Chenbeima Ethnic Autonomous County People’s Government, has implemented responsibility, strengthened supervision, severely punished illegal poaching, killing, poisoning, and disturbance of migratory birds, providing a safeguard for migratory birds’ south migration and north migration. They also carried out migratory bird protection touring publicity and education, seeking the understanding, support, and participation of the whole society, attracting volunteers and bird lovers to participate in wild patrols and bird migration actions. They have cumulatively released tens of thousands of kilograms of carp, carp, and bighead carp seedlings, repairing and improving the wetland ecological system, and the diversity of the wetland bird food chain has significantly increased, providing a warm welcome for the south-bound and north-bound migratory birds. As of now, the number of migratory birds residing in the park has increased by more than 8,000 compared to the first time Hunan Sanshan National Park was established, and the number of migratory bird species has increased from the first scientific research of 97 species to the current 123 species. This includes the country's rare and endangered animals such as the black-necked swan, gray crane, brown-headed goose, Chinese fall mandarin duck, green-headed duck, and the six national second-level protected bird species, including the large swan, red hawk, gray crane, white egret, mandarin duck, etc., which are 20+ species.
