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Kenting National Park holds “Little Egret”– Bird Watching Event

Have you ever experiencedwatching little egret (Egrettagarzetta) fly through the land? Downslope winds that rise during early fall bring the annual migrant bird season, and the first wave of visitors in Hengchun Peninsula, such as sandpipers, egret, laniidae, and buzzard, making the fields and skies of Kenting bustling with life. Kenting National Park Headquarters will be holding the “little egret” bird watching event in Longluantan Nature Park and Nanan Parking Lot on September 19, 20 and 26 and October 3 and 4. Longluan Lake in Hengchun Peninsula has long been known as a “heaven for water birds”, and the south bank of Longluan Lake is an extremely ideal location for watching egret migrate south; the view of water, grasslands and flocks of egret can only be described as poetic. As egret migrate south, a small portion stay in Taiwan for the winter, but most fly to Southeast Asia; the majority of egret migrating south is cattle egret and little egret. Most of the egret choose to rest in wetlands around Longluan Lake before they fly across the Bashi Channel; the birds rest, replenish their strength, and then take off in batches in an orderly fashion in the afternoon, continuing their way south.