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Photo: Bird caregiver Ren Jianguo made seven floating nests for 70 herons around Changbai Island in Jilin province. The heron fledglings were handed over to him after they were retrieved from bird hunters. Ren lay the heron fledglings in the nests and put small fish "outside their doors".

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