Seagulls to leave wintering ground in Qingdao (1/5)

Seagulls search for food as tide recedes near the Zhanqiao Pier in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong province, March 10, 2015. The 440-meter-long, 8-meter-wide strip pier, with one pavilion at the end, was the first wharf of Qingdao, and today becomes a favorite place for tourists. For the past 20 years, Qingdao has been a winter habitat for more and more migratory seagulls, which usually fly back to their breeding sites in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang province and Siberia as temperatures rise in March and April. (Photo: China News Service/Wang Haibin)