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As autumn arrives, the Snake Island-Laotieshan National Nature Reserve in Dalian, Liaoning province, has seen a large influx of migrating raptors. This area is globally renowned as a key stopover and gathering point for raptor migration, with hundreds of thousands of raptors passing through here each year.
As one of the most renowned Japanese directors, Hirokazu Koreeda recently shared his impressions of Chinese directors and his filmmaking experiences with Chinese movie fans at an event organized by the China Film Director's Guide Young Director Support Program in Beijing.
The autumn winds sweep across northern China, signaling the start of the raptor migration season from Siberia, Russia, and Northeast China toward the south. Standing on a platform overlooking the Bohai Gulf, patrolmen and bird enthusiasts have been monitoring the annual migration since early this month.
A new record for raptor monitoring was set at the Snake Island-Laotieshan National Nature Reserve in Northeast China's Liaoning province this autumn, with a single-day count of 11,175 raptors on Monday.
Patrollers have made the first discovery of Mute Swans breeding in the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve in Dongying, Shandong province, this summer, with a pair of adult Mute Swans playing and foraging with their six cygnets captured.
