Maogang Crane Forest

Maogang Crane Forest

Maogang Crane Forest is located within a forest of approximately 6 square kilometers in Daligang, Maogang Village, Huangpu District. It is home to more than 2,000 black-crowned night herons, with numbers exceeding 3,500 during the breeding season. These birds leave at dawn and return at dusk, and when the morning light first appears, thousands of cranes take to the sky together—a spectacular sight. The black-crowned night herons have lived here for about 200 years, making this a unique ecological landscape in Huangpu District and one of the rare habitats for black-crowned night herons in China’s major cities.

Currently, relevant departments have initiated a project to build an ecological science education park here and plan to construct a bird museum, with a total investment of about 3.5 million yuan. The area will be developed into a base integrating science education for primary and secondary school students with tourism and sightseeing.