6th int’l bird-watching festival held in Shangri-La

The sixth Shangri-La International Winter Bird-watching Festival just concluded in Shangri-La city, northwest Yunnan’s Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture.

During the five-day event, 56 birdwatchers and international tourists wandered in the snowy realm and watched graceful birds in Shangri-La, recording 195 bird species and looking into the biodiversity there.

Before that, the Shangri-La bird-watching festival were held five times with the theme of "ecological Diqing, paradise for birds". More than 50 bird clubs and 58 bird-watching teams from home and abroad participated in the event.

Diqing prefecture houses 454 bird species, accounting for 50% of the birds in Yunnan and 38% of those in China.

Source: Yunnan Net; Trans-editing by Wang Shixue