STUDY ON THE CHINESE MIGRANT BIRD BANDING AND ITS STATUS IN ASIA-PACIFIC AREA
- Received Date: 1989-02-13
- Available Online: 2012-12-04
Abstract: China is situated in the eastern part of Asia. Her complicated ecological environment provide good conditions for breeding, overwintering and dwelling for 1186 species of birds.Thousands of years ago, the seeds of Chinese bird banding originated. But scientifically large-scale bird banding and bird migration research started in the end of 1982. In the past five years, the Chinese bird banding research has begun to take shaps and 45 banding station have been set up. The number of freeing banded birds accumulated to a total of 37 060 individuals, 186 species. The total number of recoveries of banded birds domestic and abroad were 171 individuals, 57 species. The banded birds coming from seven countries or regions not only proved migratory channel of migrant birds covering from Asia to Australia and from Asia to Europe but also provided the evidence of flying over Himalaya mountain range that gave an answer to the historic questionable points.The information of the birds' migration between China and other countries is known to all. The statistical data of the same species of migrant birds in China and other 24 Asian-Pacific countries shows that China is the country of summer migrant bird breeding territory, winter migrant bird hibernaculum of bird migrating terminal as well as the travelling birds' stopping area, for it is located among eastern Asia, northern Asia, southern Asia subcontinent and Australia, America, Europe, Southern Pacific Ocean. China plays an important role in the research of bird migratory regularity in Asian-Pacific area, recoveries and breeding ecological characteristics, the rate of existence as well as collecting other ecobiological information. Therefore China is situated in the key place which can not be replaced.