In a 2019 winter survey, Fairy Bay in Gangcha County, Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, was classified as grass marsh. Observers recorded 116 birds from two species there. The entry sits among counts from river mouths, islands, marshes and farmland around Qinghai Lake. Taken together, those sites show how winter habitat changes from one part of the basin to another. Fairy Bay’s row names both the wetland and the birds recorded in that survey, linking a local place to a wider seasonal picture.
From the journal
Two Winter Records Around Qinghai Lake
A 2019 winter survey counted birds in Fairy Bay, Gangcha; a separate 2024 report described ice near Shadao and Erlangjian on the lake’s east shore.
Fairy Bay in the 2019 count
Ice at two other shoreline landmarks
A separate report from the winter of 2024 described ice along parts of the lake’s east shore: the water had covered a crescent-shaped beach west of Shadao, and ice and water surrounded the tip of the Erlangjian peninsula. These were specific shoreline observations, distinct from the Fairy Bay bird-count site. Read together, the records hold two winter views of Qinghai Lake: a dated wetland count in Gangcha and a later description of changing ice around Shadao and Erlangjian.