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Hong Kong's stock market ended higher Friday with the benchmark Hang Seng Index up 0.38 percent to close at 24,951.88 points.
The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index gained 0.76 percent to end at 8,453.77 points, and the Hang Seng Tech Index inched up 0.35 percent to end at 4,778.01 points.
Hong Kong stocks close 0.38 pct higher
A spectacular sight has unfolded along the Dongping Lake in east China, where thousands of migrating wild cormorants have swooped in and come to rest, with the birds each perched atop man-made installations in the water.
Forming orderly rows with almost military-like precision as they each sit on their own individual pole protruding above the water surface, the cormorants appear like watchful "sentinels" quietly guarding the shore.
Serving as an important stopover along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway -- one of the natural world's great migration events -- Dongping Lake's unique aquatic environment and abundant food resources make it an ideal habitat for migratory birds during their mammoth journey.
As the second largest freshwater lake in the eastern Shandong Province, the lake provides a safe haven for over 300,000 waterbirds that stop over, settle, or overwinter here each year.
Migrating wild cormorants form military-like rows during stopover at Chinese lake
