Recently, bird-watchers in Yingjiang County, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province captured a video of a brown-necked hornbill. The accidental image this time fills in the gaps in the image of brown-necked hornbill in China in recent years.
After receiving relevant information, on March 7, local volunteers for conservation of nature began to search for the brown-necked hornbill, and successfully captured the ultra-high-definition image of the brown-necked hornbill on the same day.
These images strongly confirm the distribution of brown-necked hornbills in Dehong.
It is reported that the brown-necked hornbill is mainly distributed in Yunnan and Tibet in China. The well-documented image in Yunnan is a picture taken by a photographer in Xishuangbanna in the mid-1980s.
In Yingjiang County, there are only records of villagers' visits to the brown-necked hornbill, and there has been no image to prove it.
The brown-necked hornbill was listed as a first-class protected animal in the list of national key protected wild animals just released this year.
Yingjiang County, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, is the county with the largest number of bird species in China. At present, the double-horned hornbill, corolla wrinkled hornbill, and crested hornbill only have stable observation records in Yingjiang County, plus this record Among the five species of brown-necked hornbills that have been visited in China, only the diphtheria hornbill is yet to be discovered.
(Video source from Yingjiang County Financial Media Center Yin Yihu Zhu Bian Yong Yanxiao produced by Du Xiaoxiao)
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]