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Black-necked cranes - Lhasa

An aerial drone photo taken on March 8, 2025 shows a flock of black-necked cranes overwintering at a reservoir in Lhunzhub County of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. Photo by Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Black-necked cranes - Lhasa

A drone photo taken on March 8, 2025 shows a flock of black-necked cranes overwintering at a reservoir in Lhunzhub County of Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region. Photo by Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Whooper swans migrating north after wintering in China's Shanxi

STORY: Whooper swans migrating north after wintering in China's Shanxi DATELINE: March 13, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:38 LOCATION: TAIYUAN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of whooper swans STORYLINE: With the rising temperatures in recent days, thousands of overwintering whooper swans have been migrating north from the Yellow River Wetland in Pinglu County, Shanxi Province. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Taiyuan, China. (XHTV)

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CHINA-LIAONING-BEIPIAO-SWAN (CN)

(230223) -- BEIPIAO, Feb. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A swan flies in Hongcun Village, Bajiazi Township, Beipiao of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 21, 2023. Thanks to the improvement of water quality and people's awareness of animal protection, the number of swans overwintering here has increased from over 40 to more than 400 since 2011. And the swans also attract tourists to the river bank. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-LIAONING-BEIPIAO-SWAN (CN)

(230223) -- BEIPIAO, Feb. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A swan flies in Hongcun Village, Bajiazi Township, Beipiao of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 21, 2023. Thanks to the improvement of water quality and people's awareness of animal protection, the number of swans overwintering here has increased from over 40 to more than 400 since 2011. And the swans also attract tourists to the river bank. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-LIAONING-BEIPIAO-SWAN (CN)

(230223) -- BEIPIAO, Feb. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Visitors watch swans in Hongcun Village, Bajiazi Township, Beipiao of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 21, 2023. Thanks to the improvement of water quality and people's awareness of animal protection, the number of swans overwintering here has increased from over 40 to more than 400 since 2011. And the swans also attract tourists to the river bank. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-LIAONING-BEIPIAO-SWAN (CN)

(230223) -- BEIPIAO, Feb. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Swans forage in Hongcun Village, Bajiazi Township, Beipiao of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 21, 2023. Thanks to the improvement of water quality and people's awareness of animal protection, the number of swans overwintering here has increased from over 40 to more than 400 since 2011. And the swans also attract tourists to the river bank. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-LIAONING-BEIPIAO-SWAN (CN)

(230223) -- BEIPIAO, Feb. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Swans are seen in Hongcun Village, Bajiazi Township, Beipiao of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 21, 2023. Thanks to the improvement of water quality and people's awareness of animal protection, the number of swans overwintering here has increased from over 40 to more than 400 since 2011. And the swans also attract tourists to the river bank. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-LIAONING-BEIPIAO-SWAN (CN)

(230223) -- BEIPIAO, Feb. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Swans are seen in Hongcun Village, Bajiazi Township, Beipiao of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 21, 2023. Thanks to the improvement of water quality and people's awareness of animal protection, the number of swans overwintering here has increased from over 40 to more than 400 since 2011. And the swans also attract tourists to the river bank. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-LIAONING-BEIPIAO-SWAN (CN)

(230223) -- BEIPIAO, Feb. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Swans forage in Hongcun Village, Bajiazi Township, Beipiao of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 21, 2023. Thanks to the improvement of water quality and people's awareness of animal protection, the number of swans overwintering here has increased from over 40 to more than 400 since 2011. And the swans also attract tourists to the river bank. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-LIAONING-BEIPIAO-SWAN (CN)

(230223) -- BEIPIAO, Feb. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Swans are seen in Hongcun Village, Bajiazi Township, Beipiao of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 21, 2023. Thanks to the improvement of water quality and people's awareness of animal protection, the number of swans overwintering here has increased from over 40 to more than 400 since 2011. And the swans also attract tourists to the river bank. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-LIAONING-BEIPIAO-SWAN (CN)

(230223) -- BEIPIAO, Feb. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Volunteer Li Haifeng feeds swans in Hongcun Village, Bajiazi Township, Beipiao of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 21, 2023. Thanks to the improvement of water quality and people's awareness of animal protection, the number of swans overwintering here has increased from over 40 to more than 400 since 2011. And the swans also attract tourists to the river bank. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-LIAONING-BEIPIAO-SWAN (CN)

(230223) -- BEIPIAO, Feb. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Swans fly in Hongcun Village, Bajiazi Township, Beipiao of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 21, 2023. Thanks to the improvement of water quality and people's awareness of animal protection, the number of swans overwintering here has increased from over 40 to more than 400 since 2011. And the swans also attract tourists to the river bank. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-LIAONING-BEIPIAO-SWAN (CN)

(230223) -- BEIPIAO, Feb. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A swan forages in Hongcun Village, Bajiazi Township, Beipiao of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 21, 2023. Thanks to the improvement of water quality and people's awareness of animal protection, the number of swans overwintering here has increased from over 40 to more than 400 since 2011. And the swans also attract tourists to the river bank. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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CHINA-LIAONING-BEIPIAO-SWAN (CN)

(230223) -- BEIPIAO, Feb. 23, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A photography enthusiast takes photos of swans in Hongcun Village, Bajiazi Township, Beipiao of northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 21, 2023. Thanks to the improvement of water quality and people's awareness of animal protection, the number of swans overwintering here has increased from over 40 to more than 400 since 2011. And the swans also attract tourists to the river bank. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

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Butterflies overwintering on subtropical island

Photo taken on Jan. 9, 2023, on Amami-Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, shows Ceylon blue glassy tigers clustered on twigs to make it through the winter. The butterfly is found in Southeast Asia, including Taiwan and southwestern islands in Japan, and is known to cluster in groups when the temperature falls below 15 C.

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Butterflies overwintering on subtropical island

Photo taken on Jan. 9, 2023, on Amami-Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, shows Ceylon blue glassy tigers clustered on twigs to make it through the winter. The butterfly is found in southeast Asia, including Taiwan and southwestern islands in Japan, and is known to cluster in groups when the temperature falls below 15 C.

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CHINA-YUNNAN-BLACK-NECKED CRANES-OVERWINTERING (CN)

(221223) -- ZHAOTONG, Dec. 23, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Black-necked cranes are pictured at the Yunnan Dashanbao National Nature Reserve for Black-necked Cranes in Zhaotong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 17, 2022. TO GO WITH "Black-necked cranes spend winter in southwest China nature reserve" (Photo by Wu Taiping/Xinhua)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-BLACK-NECKED CRANES-OVERWINTERING (CN)

(221223) -- ZHAOTONG, Dec. 23, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Black-necked cranes are pictured at the Yunnan Dashanbao National Nature Reserve for Black-necked Cranes in Zhaotong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 18, 2022. TO GO WITH "Black-necked cranes spend winter in southwest China nature reserve" (Photo by Wu Taiping/Xinhua)

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CHINA-YUNNAN-BLACK-NECKED CRANES-OVERWINTERING (CN)

(221223) -- ZHAOTONG, Dec. 23, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Black-necked cranes are pictured at the Yunnan Dashanbao National Nature Reserve for Black-necked Cranes in Zhaotong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 17, 2022. TO GO WITH "Black-necked cranes spend winter in southwest China nature reserve" (Photo by Wu Taiping/Xinhua)

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Short-eared owl overwinters in northern Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - A migrant short-eared owl rests on a pole while overwintering in Shibetsu in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Jan. 14, 2015.

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Short-eared owl overwinters in northern Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - A migrant short-eared owl rests on a pole while overwintering in Shibetsu in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Jan. 14, 2015.

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Reserve in China's Yunnan sees record-high number of wintering rare cranes

STORY: Reserve in China's Yunnan sees record-high number of wintering rare cranes DATELINE: Dec. 2, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:41 LOCATION: KUNMING, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of black-necked cranes STORYLINE: A new record-high number of black-necked cranes, a species under first-class state protection in China, have been spotted in a national nature reserve in southwest China's Yunnan Province during the wintering period. As of 8 a.m. Sunday, a total of 2,260 migratory black-necked cranes have been monitored by the Yunnan Dashanbao National Nature Reserve for Black-necked Cranes, the highest number since the reserve was established in 1990, said the reserve's administration bureau. The rare cranes began their wintering at the reserve around Oct. 31 this year. Last year, the total number of overwintering black-necked cranes in the Dashanbao nature reserve reached 1,926, said Wu Taiping, an engineer with the reserve's administration bureau. The reserve, located in the Zhaoyang District of Z

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CHINA-GUIZHOU-WEINING-CAOHAI NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE-MIGRANT BIRDS (CN)

(221104) -- WEINING, Nov. 4, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Black-necked cranes are seen at the Caohai National Nature Reserve in the Yi, Hui and Miao Autonomous County of Weining, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Nov. 4, 2022. Caohai welcomed this year's first batch of over 120 black-necked cranes that will overwinter here. Listed as a national nature reserve in 1992, Caohai is an important wintering ground and migration transfer station for birds such as black-necked cranes, grey cranes and spotted geese. In recent years, the number of birds overwintering in Caohai exceeds 100,000 every year. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)

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CHINA-GUIZHOU-WEINING-CAOHAI NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE-MIGRANT BIRDS (CN)

(221104) -- WEINING, Nov. 4, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Black-necked cranes are seen at the Caohai National Nature Reserve in the Yi, Hui and Miao Autonomous County of Weining, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Nov. 4, 2022. Caohai welcomed this year's first batch of over 120 black-necked cranes that will overwinter here. Listed as a national nature reserve in 1992, Caohai is an important wintering ground and migration transfer station for birds such as black-necked cranes, grey cranes and spotted geese. In recent years, the number of birds overwintering in Caohai exceeds 100,000 every year. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)

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CHINA-GUIZHOU-WEINING-CAOHAI NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE-MIGRANT BIRDS (CN)

(221104) -- WEINING, Nov. 4, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Black-necked cranes are seen at the Caohai National Nature Reserve in the Yi, Hui and Miao Autonomous County of Weining, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Nov. 4, 2022. Caohai welcomed this year's first batch of over 120 black-necked cranes that will overwinter here. Listed as a national nature reserve in 1992, Caohai is an important wintering ground and migration transfer station for birds such as black-necked cranes, grey cranes and spotted geese. In recent years, the number of birds overwintering in Caohai exceeds 100,000 every year. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)

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CHINA-GUIZHOU-WEINING-CAOHAI NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE-MIGRANT BIRDS (CN)

(221104) -- WEINING, Nov. 4, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Black-necked cranes are seen at the Caohai National Nature Reserve in the Yi, Hui and Miao Autonomous County of Weining, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Nov. 4, 2022. Caohai welcomed this year's first batch of over 120 black-necked cranes that will overwinter here. Listed as a national nature reserve in 1992, Caohai is an important wintering ground and migration transfer station for birds such as black-necked cranes, grey cranes and spotted geese. In recent years, the number of birds overwintering in Caohai exceeds 100,000 every year. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)

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Short-eared owl overwinters in northern Japan

SAPPORO, Japan - A migrant short-eared owl rests on a pole while overwintering in Shibetsu in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Jan. 14, 2015. (Kyodo)

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