Recently national rare bird, Lammergeier and Tawny Fish Owl were found at Jiuzhaigou Valley. Identified by the bird expert of Sichuan Provincial Forestry Office, these two species of bird have not been recoreded in the list of the birds at Jiuzhaigou Valley. "This discovery has set a new record of  the birds distribution at Jiuzhaigou Valley, which is a valuable material for the research on the protection of the birds at Jiuzhaigou Valley." Said, Mr. Lei Kaiming, Director of Jiuzhaigou Bird Monitoring Station.

Lammergeie, under first class state protection, is an Old World vulture, the only member of the genus Gypaetus. It breeds on crags in high mountains in southern Europe, Africa, India and Tibet, laying one or two eggs in mid-winter which hatch at the beginning of spring. The population is resident. Like other vultures it is a scavenger, feeding mostly from carcasses of dead animals. It usually disdains the rotting meat, however, and lives on a diet that is 90% bone marrow. It will drop large bones from a height to crack them into smaller pieces. Its old name of Ossifrage relates to this habit.

Tawny Fish Owl, under second class state protection, is very large rufous eared owl with yellow eyes and buffy-white throat patch and distributes from Himalayas to South China and Indochina. It lives in dense forests along streams in hilly terrain.