China News Service, Yichang, March 3 (Dong Xiaobin, Shu Renqing) The Forestry and Garden Bureau of Yichang City, Hubei Province announced on the 3rd that after a week of monitoring, a total of 50 pochards were observed in the Yichang area, showing that the area is overwintering. Baer's duck populations are continuing to grow.
Not long ago, the Department of Animal Protection of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration organized the "2023 Simultaneous Investigation of Pochard's Overwintering" to conduct a simultaneous survey of 193 distribution areas of Pochard across the country. Zhijiang Jinhu Lake in Yichang and Jijia Lake in Dangyang, Yichang Two wetlands belong to the area of this survey.
The blue-headed pochard duck photographed in Yichang Zhijiang Jinhu Photo courtesy of Yichang Bird Watching Lovers Service Center
To this end, Yichang Forestry and Garden Bureau organized the city's wildlife protection station and bird-watching enthusiast service center, and conducted four observations together with the bird-watching team of Three Gorges University, Jinhu Wetland Park, and Jijiahu Wetland Management Agency , in accordance with the technical specifications of the China Bird Watching Organization Joint Action Platform (Suzaku Club), the overwintering data of Pochard ducks in two wetlands were determined.
According to the observation results, combined with the observation data of Jinhu Wetland and Jijia Lake Wetland in the past three years, the number of Pochards overwintering in Jinhu Wetland has increased from 3 to 15. The number of pochards increased from 6 to 35.
Yichang Forestry and Garden Bureau organizes a survey of Pochard ducks. Photo courtesy of Yichang Bird Watching Enthusiast Service Center
The blue-headed pochard is a bird of the genus Pochard of Anatidae, with a round body and a large head. The head and neck of the male bird are black and have a green luster. It has been included in the "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". It is a first-class national protected wild animal.
Yichang is an ecological barrier in the Three Gorges Dam area and an ecologically sensitive area in the Yangtze River Basin.
In recent years, Yichang has promoted the construction of green ecological corridors along the Yangtze River, strengthened the integrated protection and restoration of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes and grass, and made every effort to build a model city for the great protection of the Yangtze River. The Yichang section of the Yangtze River and the local "beautiful rivers and lakes" have become important habitats for wintering birds. land.
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