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　　Set on the coast some 280 km east of Beijing, the seaside holiday resort ofBeidaihe is famous not only as a tourist center and as a good place torecuperate after illness, but also as one of the best places in the world to seemigratory birds.

　　China’’s Yanshan Mountain Range winds its way thousands of miles from thewest to the eastern seaboard. It sends a number of waterways like the Henghe,Daihe, Yanghe and Luanhe rivers down to the Bohai Sea at Beidaihe. They create avast area of wetlands, mud-banks, and lagoons with rich feeding and good placesfor birds to rest. Here migratory routes come together like great seasonalrivers of birds linking northeast Asia with south China, Indo-China, Australiaand even far off east Africa.

　　Nature has richly endowed Beidaihe with bird species and of the 1,198 foundin China, 416 have been recorded at Beidaihe. This is a part of the world thatplays host to eighteen species of gulls, three of swans, and six of cranes.

　　Xu Weishu, vice director of the China Ornithological Society tells of thetime when as many as 2,729 oriental white storks were recorded in Beidaihe,doubling the previous world record.

　　Look into the skies of Beidaihe in the first ten days of November everyyear and you will be sure to see flocks of red-crowned cranes and whitecranes.

　　The year from May 1999 to May 20__ saw ten new bird species added to thelist for Beidaihe.

　　Back in the 1940s Danish scientist, Axel Hemmingsen, published a reportsaying that he had seen large numbers of cranes at Beidaihe, but no one followedup on this at the time. Then in 1985 guided by Hemmingsen’’s report, Britishornithologist Doctor Martin Williams first came to Beidaihe. With the help of anofficial from the Beidaihe tourism authority, Dr Williams visited ShijiutuoIsland in nearby Laoting County. What he discovered there was far beyond hisexpectations and he found many new kinds of birds. Since then, accompanied byhis Chinese counterpart, Xu Weishu, he has brought many overseas professionalstogether in Beidaihe every year to enjoy watching the birds and carry outresearch.

　　Since the first two parties of Chinese bird enthusiasts visited Beidaihe in1999, more and more domestic visitors have joined bird watching groups goingthere on vacation.

　　Beidaihe has enjoyed a good reputation since 1893. It was then that aBritish engineer helping build a railway line recognized that with its lowhills, beaches and sea breezes, the headland was an ideal place to go to escapethe summer heat of the interior. On his recommendation, the first holidaymakersarrived. Beidaihe, until then a poor fishing village, quickly became popularwith diplomats, merchants, missionaries, and well off Chinese.

　　Meanwhile the birds are regular visitors here too. Flocks of gulls areeasily spotted. What might not be so easy is to be able to distinguish among thebewildering variety in the skies over Beidaihe. Many different birds passthrough here as the seasons come and go and every year still sees fresh speciesspotted. It is a magnificent sight to see the occasional flock of large cranespass by or to watch the birds of prey, however the larger birds have beendecreasing in number.