Nature reserve in China reports record number of raptors sighted

DALIAN, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Liaoning Snake Island-Laotie Mountain National Nature Reserve recorded 11,175 raptors in a single day during its autumn raptor monitoring on Monday.

The number, a record high, marks the first time in Chinese mainland that over 10,000 raptors have been recorded in a single day during autumn monitoring.

Located in the Lushunkou District of the city of Dalian, northeast China