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Hutoushan Reservoir

Reservoir in Lhünzhub, Tibet, China

Field	Value
name	Hutoushan Reservoir
native_name	zh-Hans
image	Lhünzhub County sketch map png.png
caption	Hutoushan Reservoir is in the west of Lhünzhub County
pushpin_map	Tibet
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Tibet
coords
type	Reservoir
basin_countries	Tibet, China
volume	12 e6m3

| max-depth = Hutoushan Reservoir (, Hutoushan Shuiku) is a man made reservoir in Lhünzhub County, Tibet, to the north of the city of Lhasa. It is an important wintering place for black-necked cranes and other migratory birds.

Location

The reservoir lies in Qangka Township, Lhünzhub County. The villages of Gana, Tiangacun, Seronggang and Zhujiecun lie near the lake. The reservoir is bordered by large swamps and wet meadows, and has abundant plants and shellfish. It takes its name from a nearby mountain, whose shape was said to resemble a tiger's head. The Hutuoshan Reservoir is the largest in Tibet, with planned total storage of 12000000 m3. The reservoir lies in the Pengbo River valley.

Black-necked cranes

The endangered black-necked cranes migrate to the middle and southern part of Tibet every winter, and may be seen on the reservoir. The cranes migrate from the frozen Changtang Grassland in northern Tibet in mid- to late-October, and overwinter in Linzhou (Lhünzhub) County. They return when the weather becomes warmer, in late March. They are the only species of crane that lives and breeds at these high elevations. In 2013 the population in Linzhou County was over 1,000. Village volunteers patrol the 96 km2 Linzhou Black-necked Crane Preservation Zone, established in 1993, where the cranes eat the remains of farm crops. A monitoring platform has been built to watch the health of the birds. Flocks of the birds stay on the HuTouShan Reservoir overnight, where they can be observed around daybreak before they fly off to search for forage.

References

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{{cite web|url=http://www.vtibet.com/en/home/sytj/201312/t20131212_161521.html
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