Recently, in Liangzi Lake Wetland, the reporter has photographed the?wildlife under national second class protection-pheasants for many times.
Pheasant is a kind of summer migratory bird, mainly distributed in the Yangtze River basin and the southeast coast in China. The pheasants are given the names like “water phoenix”, “fairy birds on the waves” and other beautiful names because of its resemblance to the legendary phoenix, and beautiful figure. The pheasants are highly demanding of water quality and living environment, and mainly inhabits freshwater lakes, ponds and marshes, which are rich in emerging and floating plants, it can run back and forth and rest on water lilies, lotus flowers, water chestnut, gordon euryale seeds and other plants.
In recent years, with the deepening of the ecological protection and treatment work of Liangzi Lake, the coverage rate of submerged vegetation in the wetlands of the lake area has increased dramatically, the water quality has been improving continuously, the biodiversity has been restored and protected, and the variety of waterfowl species has increased year by year, with more than 40 species now found in the lake region.