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Recently, Dongting Lake in central China’s Hunan Province has entered the height interval of winter fowl migration. The latest information exhibits that the present variety of wintering birds within the jap Dongting Lake has reached 100,000, with a complete of 41 species recorded.
Thousands of untamed geese congregate within the waters of Caisang Lake throughout the jap Dongting Lake, leisurely basking within the solar every single day. Xiong Gaofeng, a longtime patrol officer stationed at Caisang Lake, has noticed 19 species of untamed geese, with the falcated geese being the primary power on this space.
Xiong mentioned: “Now you’ll be able to see birds right here every single day, and the water high quality of Caisang Lake is getting higher, attracting increasingly more birds. We have already entered the height interval of fowl migration, and when the temperature drops additional, extra migratory birds will arrive.”
Dongting Lake welcomes the height of migratory birds. /Photo through video
Dongting Lake welcomes the height of migratory birds. /Photo through video
In the waters of the jap Dongting Lake, only a dyke away from Caisang Lake, numerous sorts of migratory birds are gathered in teams, collect in their very own territories, undisturbed, to search out their favourite meals. This 12 months, the Junshan District of Yueyang City, built-in practically 20,000 hectares of water within the Caisang Lake space of East Dongting Lake, revitalizing water sources, and establishing an clever fishery supervision system. Through measures reminiscent of meteorology, underwater sensing, and fish passage development, employees of the district are monitoring real-time water dissolved oxygen ranges, distribution of aquatic organisms, and establishing an underwater ecosystem, offering a pure feeding floor for wintering migratory birds.
Wetland of east Dongting Lake. /CFP
Wetland of east Dongting Lake. /CFP
An worker of the Junshan Ecological Fisheries Group in Hunan mentioned they use the amount of plankton to evaluate whether or not there may be sufficient fish meals within the water, which in flip estimates the dimensions of the fish. This is essential as fish are a part of the weight loss program for some migratory birds. Adequate meals provide ends in a big inflow of birds, which is helpful for his or her breeding and migration.
This 12 months, Yueyang City additionally took a sequence of measures together with building water conservation amenities and restoring submerged vegetation within the Dongting Lake basin, enhancing the general water retention capability and increasing wintering fowl habitats. According to the latest information, it’s anticipated that the inhabitants of wintering birds within the jap Dongting Lake will peak on the finish of December, with the general quantity exceeding 300,000.
