The study was conducted at Pai—fang Islang(32°06′03″—32° 06′56″N, 113°54′47″—113°55′24″E) of Nanwan Reservoir, Xinyany,Henan, from March, 1990 to July, 1991.Basedon studying of the herons ecology aroad,we studies about of breeding (analysis of the eggcompostion, clutch size,egg size, egg weight, incubation period etc.), growth, thermoregu-lation mechanism, feeding habit, physiol—chemical, interspecies relation and population dy-namics etc.of the Egretta eulophotes,E. garzetta,Ardeole bacchus,Bubulcus ibis and Nyctico-rax nycticorax. The study contents and results are as follows:
