Poyang Lake
The following posting is an excerpt from a story by Zhang Juan, an educator with Beijing Brooks Education Center. Zhang Juan describes her visit to Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province, China. Click on the link below to read more from Zhang Juan's visit to Poyang Lake and click here to download a fact sheet and PowerPoint presentation on Jiangxi Province and the Poyang Lake Nature Reserve (the first of our spring 2008 field updates for Three White Cranes classrooms).
...Wild Siberian Cranes are watchful. Once they are aware of us, they will fly over more quickly than any other kind of waterbird in the lake. Their flight is very beautiful…Such a magic moment when Siberian Cranes are flying all over the sky – it catches the observers’ breath and fixes their attention.
There are more shorebirds, which look like black and white laces. They are thickly dotted along the edge of the lake. When they fly in groups, it seems a thick cloud flies in the air…
The soft ground and ponds near the road easily make people think a wetland is just a waste land, which is waiting for other uses. But, it is such a wild environment to be a habitat for birds....
PoyangLakeNatureReserve.pdf
...Wild Siberian Cranes are watchful. Once they are aware of us, they will fly over more quickly than any other kind of waterbird in the lake. Their flight is very beautiful…Such a magic moment when Siberian Cranes are flying all over the sky – it catches the observers’ breath and fixes their attention.
There are more shorebirds, which look like black and white laces. They are thickly dotted along the edge of the lake. When they fly in groups, it seems a thick cloud flies in the air…
The soft ground and ponds near the road easily make people think a wetland is just a waste land, which is waiting for other uses. But, it is such a wild environment to be a habitat for birds....
PoyangLakeNatureReserve.pdf
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