China News Service, Changchun, April 3 (Zhang Yao, Zhao Lengbing, Li Yue'an) The reporter learned from the Jilin Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau on the 3rd that more than 2,000 hooded cranes have recently come to Jilin Jiutai Wetland Provincial Nature Reserve (Shitokoumen Reservoir) For inhabiting and foraging, local personnel have been assigned to guard and protect migratory birds around the clock.
Hooded crane is a national first-level protected animal, and currently there are less than 10,000 in the world. It is included in the "World Conservation Union Red List of Endangered Species" and "China Red Book of Endangered Animals".
Hooded cranes inhabit for food in Jiutai Wetland Provincial Nature Reserve (Shitokoumen Reservoir) in Jilin Province.
Photo by Zhao Lengbing
Hooded cranes have good living habits and spend a lot of time every day combing their feathers to ensure "tidy clothes."
They walk gracefully in wetlands, fly gracefully, and feed on plant rhizomes and small invertebrates.
Whenever he felt danger was approaching, he fluttered his wings and took off, hovering in the air, very alert.
Hooded cranes inhabit for food in Jiutai Wetland Provincial Nature Reserve (Shitokoumen Reservoir) in Jilin Province.
Photo by Zhao Lengbing
Shitoukoumen Reservoir is an important water source in Changchun City.
Zhang Yunkai, deputy director of the Wetland Management Office of the Shitoukoumen Reservoir Management Center, told reporters that the local area has continuously increased its efforts to control the environment of the water source and strictly supervised the pollution of the water source in accordance with the law.
After years of hard work, the continuously improved wetland environment of the reservoir has attracted a variety of rare birds to inhabit and breed here.
According to Zhang Yunkai, dozens of rare birds such as the Oriental White Stork, Red-crowned Crane, Hooded Crane, White-naped Crane, and other national first-class protected birds have been discovered in the area.
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