China News Service, Guangzhou, April 20 (Cheng Jingwei Linyin) According to the Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau on the 20th, the provincial scientific research monitoring team recently monitored the critically endangered bird Hainan tiger bream in Nanling National Nature Reserve in Guangdong. According to reports, this bird is known as "the most mysterious bird in the world".
Hainan Tiger Snapper is a Zebra-shaped Heronidae waterbird, originally inhabited on Hainan Island, is a national second-class protected animal, and is listed as one of the 30 most endangered birds in the world. The number of tiger bream in Hainan is very rare, and its distribution area is also very narrow. There have been sporadic records of Hainan tiger bream in southern China and northern Vietnam.
The scientific research team has recently monitored Hainan tiger bream in Nanling National Nature Reserve, Guangdong. Photo courtesy of Guangdong Forestry Bureau
Since the beginning of this year, large-scale wildlife monitoring work has been launched in the Nanling area of Guangdong. On the afternoon of April 1st, when the staff visited the mountain, they found 2 suspected Hainan tiger bream flying in front of their eyes, and then searched carefully in the nearby mountains. Finally, they found one in the dense jungle of a cliff near a reservoir about 2 kilometers away A large bird nest made of thin branches.
Subsequently, the staff placed two infrared surveillance cameras at a distance of 3 meters from the suspected Hainan tiger bream and bird nest for all-round monitoring. At noon on April 9th, the staff retrieved the infrared surveillance video material, and finally confirmed that the two birds in the video that were nesting and mating were Hainan tiger bream.
According to experts from the Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau, Hainan tiger bream likes large bodies of water, and generally places the bird's nest in the dense forest next to water bodies such as reservoirs and mountain ponds. At present, the monitoring team is expanding the search range in Nanling, Guangdong. More infrared cameras are installed around the bird nest of Hainan tiger bream and 24-hour tracking monitoring of the bird nest in order to grasp the life and reproduction rules of the tiger tiger bream. Learn about this mysterious bird. The expert predicted that in the near future, this pair of Hainan tiger bream is expected to hatch baby birds.
This is the third time Guangdong Province has discovered Hainan tiger bream in the Nanling area of Guangdong. In May 2007, a male bird of Hainan tiger bream was first discovered in Nanling National Nature Reserve, Guangdong. In August 2016, staff in the reserve discovered and rescued an accidentally injured Hainan tiger bream.
At present, the records of the discovery of Hainan tiger bream are very scarce. Experts from the Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau said that it is mainly caused by their own special living habits. First, the population is sparse, and it is estimated that the number of adult living bodies in the world is less than 1,000; second, the distribution area is narrow; , Difficult to observe).
Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau stated that since 2008, Guangdong Province has carried out infrared camera monitoring in 20 protected areas including Chebaling National Nature Reserve and Nanling National Nature Reserve. The province has collected more than 500,000 effective photos and videos taken by infrared cameras, and recorded 111 species of wild animals, 36 species of beasts, 73 species of birds, and 2 species of reptiles. (Finish)