Chapter 141 wild birds of hong kong

As the saying goes, "All the crows in the world are black", but ornithologists tell us that there are more than 20 kinds of crows in the world.Even in a small place like Hong Kong, there are more than three different kinds of crows.But for ordinary people, there is no need to know such a precise classification. We only need to know that the crow is a crow that is black all over and croaks annoyingly.The same may be said of other birds. There are more than 230 species of wild birds in Hong Kong that have been recorded by ornithologists, and about 200 species are common.If the migratory birds that occasionally pass by Hong Kong are included, it is said that there will be 285 species in total.Even including the New Territories, the area of ​​Hong Kong is not that big, so there are so many kinds of wild birds, it can be said to be a paradise for bird lovers.

The reason why Hong Kong has the opportunity to see such a variety of wild birds is due to Hong Kong's geographical advantage.Because in addition to the birds that inhabit Hong Kong all year round, there are also migratory birds from the northern part of mainland China that come to Hong Kong for the winter. They come south in autumn and migrate back to the north in spring.There are also migratory birds from the Philippines, the Malay Peninsula, India, Myanmar and other places in the south that come to Hong Kong to escape the summer heat. They migrate to Hong Kong in spring, spend the summer in Hong Kong, and fly back to the south in autumn.In addition, there are a large number of migratory birds that travel from north to south in autumn and from south to north in spring. When they march thousands of miles, when they pass through Hong Kong, they usually stop for a few days to rest and replenish food before continuing their journey.Therefore, in autumn or spring in Hong Kong, you can often suddenly see a large number of birds that are rarely seen in Hong Kong on weekdays, but they will suddenly disappear after a day or two. Certainly, but the routes of flying south and returning north are sometimes different.The migratory birds that pass through Hong Kong in autumn and fly to the south do not necessarily still pass through Hong Kong to the north in spring; on the contrary, the migratory birds that have not passed here in autumn will stop here to rest when they go north in spring. Therefore, this makes Hong Kong possible. Saw more wild birds of all kinds.

Although there are more than 200 kinds of birds in Hong Kong, apart from the sparrows in the sky and the sparrows in front of the door, the common ones we often see when we look up are the pulsatilla, the high-crested sparrow (a name for a high-knotted pipe) and the common name "Sparrow". A kind of "red shit hole".In addition, in places with thicker forests, you can also see the Shrike and the Seven Sisters at any time.There is also the black "pig dung", but it likes flat land and dislikes high mountains, so it is not very likely to see them on the mountains of Hong Kong.

The ideal place to observe birds in Hong Kong is not on Hong Kong Island but in the New Territories.Lam Tsuen Valley in Ping Shan in the New Territories, as well as both sides of the highway leading to Fanling and the foothills of Tai Mo Shan are all ideal places to observe wild birds.If you like to observe birds, and you have a little common sense of bird taxonomy, and you have a telescope at hand, if you sneak to the above-mentioned places for a day, your record book will be full.It is said that someone once saw 69 different kinds of wild birds in one day in the area of ​​Ping Shan.