A green sandpiper

Tianshannet (Correspondents and photographers: Chen Wen, Xiao Hua): Flowers are similar from year to year, but sandpipers are different from year to year. Every year after the spring, various sandpipers, such as green sandpipers, black-neck stilts, black-tailed godwits and common redshanks, come to the Kulusitai Grassland in Xinjiang. They sometimes fly in groups, sometimes fly down in the pond or hover in the sky, bringing vigor and vitality to the wetland.

A green sandpiper

A green sandpiper

Sandpipers are the most representative group of wetland wildlife, and are also an important part of the wetland ecosystem, with very important ecological significance. In recent years, the ecological environment of the Kulusitai Grassland has been greatly improved, and more and more migratory birds have come to live here. Now, it has become a paradise for sandpipers.

Black-neck stilts

A black-neck stilt

A black-neck stilt

Black-tailed godwits

Black-tailed godwits

Common redshanks

A common redshank

Oystercatcher

Oystercatcher