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Beidaihe A Must for Birds WatchersSet on the coast some 280 km east of Beijing, the seaside holiday resort of Beidaihe is famous not only as a tourist center and as a good place to recuperate after illness, but also as one of the best places in the world to see migratory birds.China’’s Yanshan Mountain Range winds its way thousands of miles from the west to the eastern seaboard. It sends a number of waterways like the Henghe, Daihe, Yanghe and Luanhe rivers down to the Bohai Sea at Beidaihe. They create a vast area of wetlands, mudbanks, and lagoons with rich feeding and good places for birds to rest. Here migratory routes e together like great seasonal rivers of birds linking northeast Asia with south China, IndoChina, Australia and even far off east Africa.Nature has richly endowed Beidaihe with bird species and of the 1,198 found in Ch