The Research And Analysis Of Bird Community In The Tourist Area Of Liaoning Shuangtaihekou National Nature Reserve And Bird-watching Tourism Management

An investigation on the bird resources in the tourist area of Shuangtaihekou nature reserve was conducted from March 2009 to November 2009. A total of 88 species belonging to 30 families and 13 orders were recorded, among which,44 species were waterfowl. The geographic regions are mainly Palaearctic realm(59% of the total).The residence types are mainly summer migrants. (accounting for 57.95% of the total).The seasonal change of the quantity of birds community is not very clear and generally it is slightly higher in summer and less in spring and autumn. The species number reaches the highest value in spring(65 species), autumn followed (45 species), and at least in summer (39 species).The Ardeidae and Laridae have the biggest quantity among the components of the waterfowl. The components of the species number have a significant seasonal change during the year. The quantity of Ardeidae and Laridae reaches the highest level in summer. On the contrary, the quantity of Anatidae and Charadriidae are higher in spring and autumn but less in summer.The diversity index and evenness index reached the highest level in spring, which were 3.2 and 0.76 respectively. The diversity index is low in autumn because the dominance index is too high.The evenness index and dominance index are both high in summer.The reed swamp habitat had the largest number of species and the fish ponds habitat had the largest density of birds, The diversity index and evenness index in the different habitats had the seasonal difference.In general,diversity index and evenness index is higher in the reed swamp habitat and river habitat (except autumn),followed farmland habitat.The evenness index is higher in reed swamp habitat and farmland habitat in spring but in river habitat and farmland habitat in summer and autumn.The main affecting factors to the bird community include non-standard types of tourism, land reclamation along the river, etc.According to the analysis of the birding resources, more than 90% of birds have the aesthetic value. By analyzing the distribution of birds, the best scenic spots for bird-watching were determined to 0302 and 0600.A bird-watching trail and fishing corridor were designed based on the best scenic spots as well as the bird breeding area.The tourists'awareness,acceptance and demand for bird watching and environmental education was analyzed based on the questionnaire.Most tourists know little about bird-watching tourist,but still have a great interest in bird-watching tourism.In the Environmental education part,tourists give the highest acceptance to the public interesting activities,in-kind show and tour guid.Local environmental education has also achieved good results.This paper also analyzed the bird-watching tourist market and calculated the geographic concentration index for this tourist site with the result of 62. In response to this situation, the possibility of market development and product strategy was discussed.Liaoning province and Beijing are made to core market,North part and Northeast part of China are made to secondary market.The Central Plains,East China and South China are made to development opptunities for strategic thinking. Different tourism products are also put forward according to different demands.At last,reasonable suggestions were put forward against tourists awareness and acceptance.