After the Qingming Festival, Qinghai Lake, the "Plateau Sapphire", welcomed a large number of migratory birds to set up their nests.
Located in Gangcha County, Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, on the north shore of Qinghai Lake, photographers photographed common cormorants nesting on Cormorant Island, black-necked cranes, whooper swans, bar-headed geese, etc. in the shallow wetlands and fresh water around the lake. Cruise and play in the lake.
Recently, the Qinghai Lake National Nature Reserve Administration organized the first patrol monitoring in the spring of 2022, monitoring 28 species of waterfowl with a total of more than 65,000 birds, and the number of waterfowl increased by 4.5 times compared with the same period last year.
As the largest inland lake in China, Qinghai Lake is not only an important water body for maintaining ecological security in the northeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and a natural barrier to control the eastward spread of desertification in the west, but also the intersection of two migratory routes of migratory birds in Central Asia and East Asia. It is the breeding ground with the largest number of migratory birds and the most concentrated population.
At present, the five breeding migratory birds in Qinghai Lake, bar-headed geese, brown-headed gulls, fishing gulls, common cormorants, and crested grebes, have all come to Qinghai Lake, and the total number of monitoring is more than 7,300.
(The video of Yue Ziyan produced by Li Jun comes from Gangcha County Rong Media Center)
Responsible editor: [Li Ji]