Record number of black-necked cranes arrive at Guizhou's nature reserve

Updated: Jan 19, 2026 By Yang Jun and Liu Boqian chinadaily.com.cn Print

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A record 2,898 black-necked cranes have arrived at the Caohai National Nature Reserve in Weining county of Bijie, Guizhou province, to spend the winter. [Photo by Zhao Guoping/For chinadaily.com.cn]

Every year in early November, the cranes leave breeding grounds in Sichuan, Gansu and other provinces and fly south to Caohai to overwinter. They return north in March.

Caohai, the province's largest natural plateau freshwater lake, is shallow and supports rich biodiversity, which makes it one of the cranes' main wintering sites.

Thanks to a restoration program launched in 2015, the wintering population at Caohai has, in recent years, remained above 2,000.

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