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CHONGQING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 2,000 black-headed gulls have arrived in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Ornithologists said the Chongqing section of China's longest river has seen the largest migratory flock in the past decade. The gulls have mainly arrived at a rare-fish nature reserve on the Yangtze River, a fact that is likely related to the measures to protect the ecology and environment there, including fishing bans, said Xu Zhiqing, a researcher with the Chongqing Natural History Museum. Xu said the main food of black-headed gulls is small fish and shrimps,...
