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  • Tracking swans in China

    Source: http://news.163.com/09/0604/11/5AV9G2PC000120GR.html

    Google translation:

    Xinjiang tracking the avian flu first discovered "Ringing" Swan (map)
    2009-06-04 11:25:00 Source: People's Network (Beijing)

    May 27, members of the Bird Watching Society in Xinjiang Xinjiang gurt Wusu City, a town of the lake, wetlands have been taken to a Swan Ringing, Ring No. C33 (red white). Inquiries by members of bird-watching: "Ringing" Swan C33 in 2008, the world's bird flu monitoring network project, is flying from the northern part of Mongolia, Central, Zhi used to track the migration routes of birds, avian influenza prevention and control so as to provide valuable information.

    According to the Xinjiang Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute researcher Ma introduced in the 2007-2008 group Mongolia Ringing Ringing a total of 134 swans are encoded using the red neck ring (white characters). The year 2008, in Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, Tianjin, Beijing, which found that 49 swans. The only swans found in Xinjiang, is the first three years of record, one of the most westerly record.

    Ma said that the world's existing seven kinds of swans, which Swan, Little Swan, Mute Swan distribution in three in China. Xinjiang Bayinbuluke Swan Wetlands are important breeding grounds for thousands of swans each year to come here and breeding habitat. Swan on the migratory route of Xinjiang, has always been a mystery. C33 ring this number first appeared in the Swan sanmenxia (8 November, 2008), after the west was found in Shaanxi Yokoyama (1 March, 2009). And so infer that the spring migration route from east to west, and not in accordance with the same route to return to breeding grounds in northern Mongolia. Swan usually takes 3-4 years of maturity, it was the swan Banding may be sub-adult individual, in a mature pair wandering around like before. (This article Source: People's Network) netease
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