The fourth Birding Festival has started with a theme of Birds' Home in Beautiful Binhai.

Binhai is an important route for migratory birds in East Asia-Australasia, and its peak period for welcoming the birds is early winter. Nearly 100 species and about 500,000 specimens of swans have arrived, as have geese, oriental white storks, and rare birds such as herons, ducks, and apes.

The large number of swans presents an excellent opportunity for birders to enjoy an idyllic "Swan Lake".

Binhai is welcoming ecologists, ornithologists, birdwatchers and photographers from around the world at the event. The purpose is to protect both the birds and Binhai's 886 square kilometers of wetlands.

There are 249 species of migratory birds recorded so far in this migration, including 11 national grade I protected species and 34 grade II species.

Binhai has attached greater importance to protecting birds. The Binhai Wetland Protection Summit was recently held at Dagang with experts and scholars from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing Forestry University Nature Reserve College, Tianjin Normal University Life Science College and Nankai University School of Environmental Science and Engineering in attendance, to name a few. They exchanged ideas on topics such as Binhai wetland monitoring and evaluation, marine management, coastal wetland ecological restoration, and climate change.

Birds in Binhai wetlands [Photos/Xinhua]

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