With their Mohican hairstyles and pale pink bodies, large flocks of rosy starlings are distinctive in their grassland habitat. They migrate to northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region every summer and raise their fledglings there.
In May this year, a construction project of China First Highway Engineering Company was halted as rosy starlings began breeding at the site. The project was postponed until the end of July when the birds journeyed south.
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Supervisor: Pang Xinhua
Producer: Zhang Junfeng
Chief Editor: Yang Yan
Director: Zhao Ying
Editor: Zhao Ying, Xu Chenlu
Filmed by: Shao Wenbo
Voiceover: Matthew Arrington Watson
Animation: Zhao Ying, Xu Qianyun
Designer: Yu Peng, Gao Hongmei
Special thanks to Hami Transportation Construction Co.Ltd of CCCC and Hami Locust and Rat Control Office
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