首批天鹅飞抵南海新区 First Whooper Swans Arrive at Weihai’s Nanhai New Area

随着气温逐渐下降，威海南海新区迎来一年一度的贵宾——大天鹅。与往年相比，今年的天鹅来得更早。两只首批抵达的客人刚到南海，就落进游客的视线，也拉开了南海天鹅观赏季的序幕。

天鹅对于栖息地环境要求极其挑剔：不但水要清，还要食物充足，它们才肯收翅歇脚。随着当地生态保护力度的加强，昔日荒滩长出绿荫，清波里鱼群成群，芦苇深处的候鸟叫声也越来越密集。天鹅每年回来越冬，正是南海新区区域生态持续向好的佐证。

从现在开始，来南海越冬的大天鹅正排着长队陆续飞来。不久之后，水面之上、苇荡深处，便会迎来白羽翔集、鸣声四起的热闹光景。

As temperatures gradually drop, the Nanhai New Area in Weihai has welcomed its annual honored guests—whooper swans. Compared with previous years, the swans have arrived earlier this year. The two first arrivals had barely come into visitors’ view in Nanhai when they raised the curtain on the area’s swan-watching season.

Swans are extremely particular about their habitat: they will only fold their wings and stop to rest where the water is clear and food is abundant. As local ecological protection efforts have intensified, formerly barren flats have grown green, fish now shoal in the clear waters, and calls of migratory birds from deep within the reeds are growing denser. The swans’ annual return to spend the winter here is evidence that the ecology of Nanhai New Area continues to improve.

From now on, whooper swans coming to Nanhai for the winter will arrive one after another in long lines. Before long, the waters and the depths of the reed marshes will present a lively scene of gathering white wings and rising calls.

（通讯员 孙杰 郭晋欢 王晓根）