Bird Island

Bird island of Qinghai Lake

synonym

Bird Island (Qinghai lake bird island in Qinghai Province) generally refers to Qinghai lake bird island

Bird island of Qinghai Lake is named for its hundreds of thousands of migratory birds. Their real names are haixishan, Xiaoxishan and egg island in the West and haixipi in the East. The topography of Haixi mountain is like a hump, with an area of only 0.11 square kilometers. With the decline of the lake, it has expanded, and the top of the island is 7.6 meters higher than the lake. There are about 80000 or 90000 birds on the island. Haixipi is the kingdom of cormorants. The cormorant nests are like a bird's castle, so haixipi is also called cormorant island.

On May 14, 2018, in order to maintain the surrounding ecosystem, the Bird Island Scenic Spot and Sand Island Scenic Spot of Qinghai Lake National Nature Reserve continued to stop business in the peak tourist season.

geographical environment

Bird island is located in the northwest corner of Qinghai Lake, which is divided into one east island and one West Island. Far away from the bird island, visitors can hear different timbres of birds, chirping and bustling. On the viewing platform, you can see all kinds of birds playing between the sky and the lake. Some of them spread their wings and soar, passing white traces in the sky; some of them cruise and chase, leaving silver ripples on the water; some of them bask in the sun lazily on the shore.

With an area of 4300 square kilometers, Qinghai Lake is the largest inland saline lake in China and an important wetland. Due to its unique geographical and climatic environment, Qinghai Lake attracts hundreds of thousands of migratory birds to breed every year. 5、 In June, there are more than 30 kinds of birds on the island, the most of which is more than 160000. The scene is very spectacular. According to the local people, the number of birds dropped sharply because of the artificial behavior of picking up birds' eggs. At least, there were only more than 200 birds left.

In order to protect the natural environment of Niaodao, Qinghai Province designated Niaodao as a nature reserve in 1975. After years of careful protection, the bird resources of bird island in Qinghai Lake are constantly recovering. According to the relevant monitoring data, the number of migratory birds visiting bird island each year is basically stable at about 50000. With the arrival of a large number of migratory birds, Qinghai lake bird island has gradually become a famous tourist attraction. A large number of Chinese and foreign tourists follow the footsteps of migratory birds and come here to see the grand gathering of thousands of birds. According to statistics, since 2003, the number of visitors to bird island of Qinghai Lake has remained at about 100000 per year. Haixi mountain looks like a hump. This is the hereditary territory of the spotted headed geese, fish gulls and brown necked gulls.

Qinghai Lake is located in the northeast of Qinghai Province, 151 kilometers away from Xining City, the provincial capital, with a circumference of more than 360 kilometers and an area of 4635 square kilometers. It is the largest inland saline lake in China. The lake is 3195 meters above sea level, with a salinity of 6 ‰, an average water depth of more than 19 meters and a maximum depth of 30 meters. There are bird island, Haixin mountain, Haixi mountain, three stones and sand island in the lake. In the bright sunshine, the rape flowers around the lake are golden, and the sheep are like white clouds floating on the green carpet grassland, which is full of poetic charm everywhere. Roaming among grasslands, mountains, lakes and sand dunes, listening to the singing of shepherdess, watching sunrise and sunset, make visitors intoxicated with the comfort of nature. There is a tent hotel with perfect reception facilities and a bonfire party where visitors can enjoy the beautiful Tibetan songs and dances.

ecological environment

Bird island is named for its hundreds of thousands of migratory birds. Their real names are haixishan, Xiaoxishan and egg island in the West and haixipi in the East. The topography of Haixi mountain is like a hump. It is the hereditary territory of spotted headed geese, fish gulls and brown necked gulls. Every spring, spotted headed geese, fish gulls and brown necked gulls come here together to occupy one side of the island and build nests. The whole island is full of bird nests. When it comes to the spawning season, the number of birds' eggs on the island is countless. Therefore, people also call it the egg Island, and the bird island usually refers to it.

The reason why bird island has become an ideal home for birds to breed and live is that it has unique geographical conditions and natural environment, with flat terrain, mild climate and water on three sides. With quiet environment, lush water and grass, and various fishes, it is a natural place for birds to breed.

The beautiful bird island of Qinghai Lake is not only a paradise for birds and birds, but also a wonder of Qinghai Plateau. The beautiful bird island scenery and the strange waterfowl life have attracted many tourists and attracted many people's longing for it. In the southern part of bird island, a bird island management station was set up, and the southern part of bird island was designated as a nature reserve.

Haixipi, high in the East and low in the west, is like a springboard. Its area is more than four times larger than that of haixishan, about 4.6 square kilometers. The terrain on the island is relatively flat, with dense legume grass, wild onion and other plants. The eastern part of the island is craggy and close to the lake. In front of the island, there is a huge rock standing in the lake. All around, it is quite spectacular. The western part of the island is a gentle slope, which is closely adjacent to the Haixi mountain. Haixipi is the kingdom of cormorants, inhabiting tens of thousands of cormorants, which build nests on the cliff. Especially on the boulder in front of the island, the cormorant nests are like a castle of birds.

The reason why bird island has become an ideal home for birds to breed is that it has unique geographical conditions and natural environment. The terrain here is flat, the climate is mild, surrounded by water on three sides, the environment is quiet, the water and grass are luxuriant, and there are many fish. Those birds with unique insight, according to their habits and hobbies, choose different landforms and ecological environment here to build their own homes.

Most of the birds in bird island are migratory birds. Every spring, when the warm current from the Indian Ocean comes, the birds living in the South Asian islands migrate northward across the snow capped Himalayas with fresh air. Along the way, they quack and cry, day and night. Some of them fly to the rivers and lakes of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, some fly over the desert to further places, and some fly to the bird island of Qinghai Lake. As soon as they arrived here, they had no time to wash away the dust from their feathers, and they did not care to have a rest, so they were busy carrying grass and branches to build new houses. At this time, the bird island is a joyful world, a busy world and a noisy world. Hundreds of thousands of birds gather on the island, take off and fall from morning to night, fall and fly. The sky, the earth, the island and the island are full of birds. In April and may, they began to lay eggs. In June and July, when the young birds on the island grow up to full-fledged and can fly far away, their parents will take them to wander around and look for food. Some go to the nearby Alpine Pinghu Lake to spend the summer, some go to the clear and quiet mountain streams to inhabit, some go to the river branches around the lake to play. At this time, fewer and fewer birds live on the island, and the prosperous "town" built by the birds began to become quiet. In the ninetieth month, the young birds grow up one by one, and their wings are hardened. At this time, the Siberian cold wave gradually moved southward, and the birds on the island left their hometown one after another and moved southward to India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand, Singapore and other South Asian places to escape the cold.

The beautiful bird island of Qinghai Lake is a paradise for birds, a paradise for birds, and a great wonder of Qinghai Plateau. The beautiful bird island scenery and the strange waterfowl life have attracted many tourists and aroused many people's longing for it. In order to protect the bird island and bird resources, the relevant units of Qinghai Province formally established the bird island management station in 1975 at Buha River in the south of the bird island. In 1980, the bird island was designated as a nature reserve. Now it is built as a National Nature Reserve of the bird island and listed in the United Nations Handbook of international important wetlands. At the same time, it has joined the Convention of international important wetlands for waterfowl habitat. In 1983, 100000 yuan was allocated to build an artificial lake around the island, and a large number of grass and trees were planted nearby, in order to save the bird paradise that will disappear due to the continuous decline of water in Qinghai Lake. At the same time, in order to facilitate domestic and foreign tourists, a hotel with a construction area of 1381 square meters has been built near Bird Island, which can receive more than 100 Chinese and foreign tourists every day. The appearance of the hotel is beautiful and the interior facilities are elegant and comfortable.

Main attractions

There are two bird islands, called "egg island" and "haixipi", located in the northwest corner of Qinghai Lake.

It is also called Xiaoxishan or egg island. Located 4 kilometers north of Buha estuary, the island has a large east end and a narrow west end, which is 1500 meters long and looks like tadpoles. Since 1978, the lake bottoms in the north, West and South are exposed and connected with the land. The slope of bird island is gentle, the surface is covered by sand and stone, and there are several springs gushing in the southwest of the island. The main plants are Dioscorea divaricata, Chenopodium album, Agropyron cristatum, Oxytropis falcatum, Polygonum sibiricum, Kobresia, Poa pratensis, etc. Bird island is a unique breeding center in Asia and the first of the eight bird reserves in China. It is an important place for Qinghai Province to open to the outside world. From March to April every year, migratory birds from the south, such as geese, ducks, cranes and gulls, come to Qinghai Lake to nest in succession; from May to June, eggs are everywhere, and young birds are flocking in groups. At this time, there are more than 30 kinds of birds on the island, with a number of more than 165000; from July to August, birds are flying in the blue sky and cruising on the lake; from the end of September, they begin to move south. In order to protect birds for people to watch, Bird Island Nature Reserve was established in August 1975, and was listed as national self-protection zone in 1980

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