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Tour to Guizhou Caohai Lake for Birder to Watch Birds |
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The Caohai lake is the largest fresh water karst lake in
Northwest Guizhou, rectangular shaped, it occupies an area of 200 sq km
with vast-stretching wetland full of waterweeds and grass. Rich aquatic
plants and mild weather provide birds with an excellent habitat. The
black-neck crane, the sole surviver of the world's plateau fowls, usually
comes to the Caohai lake for winter after it breeds in Qinghai Lake.
Caohai Lake is one of the best places to birdwatch in China, and the WWF
has listed it as one of the top 10 birdwatching destinations in the world.
Up to 100,000 birds winter at the lake between december and March, and 179
defferent species have been recorded, inculding protected species, such as
the black-neck crane and white storks, golden and imperial eagles,
white-tailed sea-eagle, Eurasian crane and white spoonbill.
The Tuoda Forest, 60 km north-west of Caihai Lake, has been set aside as a
nature reserve for the protection of the endangered Reeves' pheasant.
Reeves' pheasant is unique to China, but owing to widespread deforestation
its numbers have declined in recent years and its total population is
probably no more than 5000.
Caihai Lake is at the heights between 2170 and 2234 meters above sea level
and surounded by green mountains.
Birding tours in China
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