Bird Resources of Urban Lakes & Wetlands in Winter and Habitat Analysis in Wuhan

The investigation on bird resource of urban lakes wetland in Wuhan city since November 2006 to March 2007 had been done and 70 bird species,belonging to 25 families and 12 orders had been recorded,in which 32 species(45.71%) belonged to the palaearctic realm and 24 species(34.29%) to the oriental realm whereas other 14 species(20.00%) were widespread species.The fauna composition showed that the northern birds and southern birds mixed together and the palaearctic realm served as the main features in the region.There were 1 species under class I of National Protection and 7 species under class II.Thus,the paper suggested some countermeasures for the protection and management of bird resources.