The best time to watch birds at Yingkou Bird Wave Square is April 22-23, during the Daliao River Estuary Bird Wave Festival.
Yingkou is located in the Bohai Sea Liaodong Bay northeast coast, Daliao River at the mouth of the sea, is the only city in mainland China to see the sunset on the sea, but also one of the international migratory migratory birds through one of the passages, every year there are about hundreds of thousands of migratory birds fly through this. As a migratory birds "station" Yingkou shallow water mudflat resources, attracting a large number of water birds to feed, rest, but also created a unique Yingkou "bird wave" spectacle.
April to May each year, for the best bird watching time, fall "bird wave" in mid-August to mid-September, the scene is more spectacular. Every bird-watching season, hundreds of thousands of migratory birds dancing with the sunset and tides, forming a unique Yingkou "bird wave" spectacle, flocks of migratory birds migrate, constituting a colorful and wonderful natural wonders, but also attracted countless tourists from all directions converge here.
Yingkou Bird Waves
Yingkou, as the only city in mainland China where you can see the sunset over the sea, "Bird Waves" undoubtedly adds a touch of beautiful color to the sunset. When the reddish sunset slowly sank into the depths of the sea, in the mudflat feeding water birds with the tide, dancing. Thousands of waterfowl take off at the same time, a spectacular scene. They are sometimes like dark clouds swirling in the gale, sometimes like waves rippling in the sea, sometimes as gentle as a breeze passing by, and sometimes as fast as ten thousand arrows.
Every year from early April to early May is the peak season for plovers to stop over in the Daliao River mouth area on their way to the 10,000-mile migration, with 40,000 to 50,000 waterfowl gathering on the wetland and surrounding mudflats every day.
The spotted-tailed sandpiper and the great sandpiper are the main ones. They take off from New Zealand, Australia and other places, across the Pacific Ocean, halfway, no food, no drink, no sleep continuous flight, a week after arriving here, stopping for food to replenish energy, more than a month later, continue the second half of the more than 5,000 kilometers to Siberia, Russia, and other places of the long journey, so people call them birds in the "marathon champion! ".
Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Yingkou City Baidu Encyclopedia - Daliao River Mouth Bird Wave Festival for more details