1994年10月9日,中、美两国联合发行了一套票名为《鹤》的邮票,我国登录方寸的是栖息在中国西部高原地区的国家一级保护动物—黑颈鹤(图1)。在这之前,我对黑颈鹤几乎没有多少了解,因为这枚邮票的面世,让我开始对这种我国所特有,并且是唯一生活在高原地区的濒危鹤类种群给予了关注。据资料显示,在现今世界已知的15种鹤类种群中,黑颈鹤是最晚被生物科学界发现的。目前全世界仅约有八千多只,数量稀少,享有“鸟类中的大熊猫”之美誉。黑颈鹤仅分布在我国青藏高原与云贵高原的一些高寒地区,通常春、夏季节是在西藏、青海、甘南草原以及川西 On October 9, 1994, China and the United States jointly issued a set of stamps entitled “Crane”. The log in size of our country is a black-necked cranes at the national level inhabiting the plateau in western China (Figure 1 ). Before that, I had very little knowledge of black-necked cranes because the introduction of this stamp allowed me to begin to pay attention to this endemic to our country and the only endangered Crane population living in the plateau. According to statistics, black-necked cranes have been discovered by the biological sciences lately among the 15 species of crane known in the world today. At present, there are only about 8,000 animals in the world, which are rare in number and enjoy the reputation of “giant panda in birds”. Black-necked cranes are only distributed in some alpine regions of China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, usually in spring, summer seasons in Tibet, Qinghai, Gannan grassland and western Sichuan