Recently, at Bizhai Township, Longling County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, photography enthusiasts captured a variety of wild animals in the same frame of the vivid picture. After relevant experts from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration of the Southwest Investigation and Planning Institute, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences carefully identified, a total of 10 species of birds and 1 species of animal were captured this time.

Located on the banks of the Nujiang River, Bizhai Township in Longling County is renowned as the "Pearl of Western Yunnan” or “Western Yunnan Bizhai". The winter here is quiet and peaceful and the vertical climate feature of "a mountain divided into four seasons, ten miles of different days" is quite distinctive. Overlooking the banks of the Nujiang River, everywhere presents a unique scene of a “mountain range of thousands of peaks, the clouds shroud water”, cloudy and misty green water and lush mountains, birds chirping in the mountain...

Overlooking the cloudy green mountains (Longling Bizhai Town). Photo by Yin Lei

Birds like to choose this area to move around in small microhabitats such as forest bushes, water ponds and rocks. The images provided by several photographers show birds such as Niltava sundara, Garrulax sannio and Rhipidura albicollis playing in the water by the ponds; Rhipidura hypoxantha Blyth twisting its body on the trunks of trees and flapping its wings to maintain its body temperature and show its beautiful dance; Chrysolophus amherstiae wandering and feeding in the grass; and Dremomys pernyi and Gallus gallus, Bambusicola fytchii and many other wild birds playing a rare scene of "birds and animals foraging in the same frame". ..... They either act alone or play in groups of three or five, forming a beautiful and harmonious ecological scroll with the surrounding environment. They also add a bit of vitality and warmth to the winter along the Nujiang River.

Niltava sundara. Photo by Yin Lei

Niltava sundara playing in the water. Photo by Li Rongshun

Garrulax sannio. Photo by Li Rongshun

Garrulax sannio. Photo by Li Rongshun

Rhipidura albicollis. Photo by Li Rongshun

Experts introduced that wild animals are the "barometer" and "environmental assessor" that reflect the ecological environment. In recent years, as Longling's ecological environment has improved, more and more birds have come to live and breed here. According to the latest survey results, the number of recorded wild birds in the county has reached 462 species (an increase of 203 species compared to 2006), accounting for 48.89% of the 945 bird species in Yunnan Province and 31.97% of the 1,445 bird species recorded in China. In addition, a variety of wildlife in Longling Nujiang River Baihuashu (place name) frequently appear, reflecting the increased efforts of local wildlife habitat protection. The public’s awareness of wildlife protection has improved, and man and nature live in harmony.

Chrysolophus amherstiae. Photo by Yin Lei

Chrysolophus amherstiae. Photo by Yi Yongjian

Chrysolophus amherstiae. Photo by Yin Lei

The reporter learnt that the Gallus gallus and the Chrysolophus amherstiae are both key wildlife species under national second-class protection, and the Chrysolophus amherstiae has been listed in the "Red List of China's Biodiversity - Vertebrate Volume" as a Near Threatened (NT) species; the Rhipidura albicollis, the Parus major, the Niltava sundara, the Rhipidura hypoxantha Blyth, the Garrulax monileger and the Dremomys pernyi are included in the "List of Terrestrial Wildlife of Great Ecological, Scientific and Social Importance".

Gallus gallus in the frame with Dremomys pernyi. Photo by Li Rongshun

Bambusicola fytchii in the frame with Dremomys pernyi. Photo by Li Rongshun

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(Editors: Reena, Ines)