Shenyang embraces best bird-watching season

Bird Island

Bird Island is currently the only natural ecological bird watching center in Shenyang, Liaoning province. It is also called Ganhezi Island, and it covers 49.26 hectares. 

The birds inhabiting the island mainly cover four species: cursorial, natatorial, wading, and singing birds. Red-crowned cranes, black swans, white swans, peacocks, vultures, egrets, emberiza elegans, mandarin ducks, cormorants, grey cranes, macaws, silver pheasants, black-headed gulls, bar-headed gooses, as well as ostriches can be found here. At times, groups of birds such as peacocks, black swans, white swans, and sea gulls will hover overhead, forming a breathtaking landscape on the island.

Bird Island attracts a flock of mandarin ducks during winter. [Photo/VCG]

Address: Qipan Mountain Scenic Area, Mantang county, Hunnan district, Shenyang, Liaoning province

Bus: Nos 148, 168, 218, 318, 385