Meng!"The smallest duck in the world" cotton 凫 appeared for the first time in Pinghu

Zhejiang News Client reporter Xiao Wei shared alliance Pinghu Station Chen Xinyu

Sometimes sorting out feathers, sometimes foraging in the water, and looks like a cotton ball, smart and cute ... Recently, the staff of the Pinghu Branch of the Jiaxing Ecological Environment Bureau conducted a biological diversity survey, and I found a few special birds. It is confirmed that this is a national second -level key protection animal cotton. In Jiaxing, for the first time.

Cotton, commonly known as "cotton ducklings, little white ducks, cotton ducks", etc., are scarce in China, mainly distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. According to data, the number of cotton pupae is estimated to be no more than 2,000 in the country, and it has been included in the "Land Wildlife List of the beneficial or important economy and scientific research value" and the "China National Key Protection Wildlife List" The secondary list belongs to the national secondary key protection wildlife.

The cotton is named because it looks like a cotton ball. The shape of the head is round, the feet are short, the beak is like a goose beak, the bird's body is about 30 cm in length, and the weight is close to 200 grams. It often inhabits rivers, lakes, ponds and swamps, especially the open waters of aquatic plants. Sometimes it also appears in small ponds and canals near the village. It is mainly eaten by the tender buds, tender leaves, and rhizomes of aquatic plants and land.

Sun Long, a staff member of the Pinghu Branch of the Jiaxing Ecological Environment Bureau, said that cotton puppets have high requirements for the water environment. It appears in Pinghu, indicating that the local water environment ecology is excellent, which is conducive to the habitat of rare water birds.

In recent years, Pinghu has deeply implemented the concept of "green water and green mountains is the golden mountains and silver mountains", and continued to promote a series of environmental pollution prevention measures such as "five qi governance", "five water governance", and "five waste governance". The quality has been improved year by year, and the city's main rivers in the city have changed from the inferior five categories of the three types of water quality more than ten years ago to the current historic transformation of three types of water quality. In 2021, the quality of environmental air quality reached 93.7%.

The continuous optimization of the ecological environment, good living environment and suitable climate conditions have also attracted many birds to settle in Pinghu. It is reported that since the start of biological diversity survey in 2021, Pinghu City has recorded a dozen rare birds such as cotton, water, and four cuckoo.

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