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Shanghai,located at the coastline of East China,Yangzi River Delta,is one of the modernest cities in the world.The center of the city owns the majority of its population and only some greenlands hiding in the skyscrapers.More natural habitats are compressed into the remote suburbs,many of which are facing the stresses from development of industry and agriculture. But note its importance as a stopping over site for migratory shorebirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. And many other kinds of birds such as passerines also pass,winter,and breed in and around Shanghai. In a half/one day's trip,you can see Japanese Quail,Mandarin Duck,Baikal Teal,Little Curlew,Spoon-billed Sandpiper,Nordmann's Greenshank,Hooded Crane,Saunders's Gull,Relict Gull,Chinese Egret,Black-faced Spoonbill,Fairy Pitta,Chestnut-cheeked Starling,Japanese Swamp Warbler(Marsh Grassbird),Reed Parrotbill,Pechora Pipit,Japanese Waxwing,Ochre-rumped Bunting(Japanese Reed Bunting)... In a two/three days' trip to some famous Nature Reserves,you can see Cabot's Tragopan,Elliot's Pheasant,Reeves's Pheasant,White-necklaced Partridge,Swan Goose,Lesser White-fronted Goose,Scaly-sided Merganser,White-backed Woodpecker,Siberian Crane,White-naped Crane,Red-crowned Crane,Swinhoe's Crake,Chinese Crested Tern,Pied Falconet,Dalmatian Pelican,Oriental Stork,Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher,Fujian Niltava,Chestnut-vented Nuthatch,Yellow-browed Tit,Courtois's Laughingthrush,Rusty Laughingthrush,Short-tailed Parrotbill,Slaty Bunting... |