"Hey, is it 110? We found an injured eagle here, the injury is not light, what should we do? ”
On September 26, the Huaibin County 110 Command Center handed over the case to the Chengguan police station where the reporter was located, and the police on duty immediately contacted the county's forest public security, and the forest public security staff sent the "eagle" to the Huaibin Huainan Wet Office in time for rescue.
"After preliminary identification, the 'eagle' said by the masses is a kestrel, a national second-level protected animal. The delivery was very timely, we immediately organized experts to treat the bird, after more than ten days of treatment, the bird has the conditions to return to nature. On October 12, Li Ling, director of the Huainan Wetland Office in Huaibin County, and her colleagues looked at the red falcon soaring in the sky.
Kestrel (scientific name: Falco tinnunculus) is the most common small falcon family raptor in China, a national second-class protected animal, belonging to a species of Falcon family, body length 27 to 35 cm, wingspan 57 to 79 cm, narrow and pointed wings, long tail, male falcon weight 136 to 252 grams, female falcon weight 203 to 314 grams. The male has a blue-grey head with brick-red coverts on the dorsal and wingwings with triangular black spots, while the waist, tail coverts and tail feathers are blue-grey with broad black sub-spots and white end spots at the tail, and a black corner stripe that goes down vertically downwards. The chin and throat of the lower body are milky white or brownish white, and the rest of the lower body is milky yellow or brownish yellow, with black-brown longitudinal stripes and spots. The female has a brownish red upper body from head to tail, with black-brown longitudinal and transverse spots, and the lower body is milky yellow, except for the throat, it is covered with black-brown longitudinal stripes and spots, with black longitudinal stripes under the eyes. The feet and toes are yellow and the claws are black. It often inhabits mountains and wilderness, is active in single or pairs, and flies higher. It is famous for its soaring habits when hunting. Eats large insects, birds and small mammals.
In recent years, on the basis of finding out the current situation of wetland resources, Huaibin County has strengthened wetland protection, broadened the channels of wetland protection, rectified violations of laws and regulations that damage the environment and damaged the ecology with an iron fist, and promoted the work of creating forests with high standards, and the ecological environment has been fundamentally improved.
Huaibin County makes full use of newspapers, television, the Internet and other forms of publicity, vigorously create a public opinion atmosphere for wetland protection, repeatedly held "Huainan Wetland Photography Exhibition", "Photo Exhibition" and other activities, distributed hundreds of thousands of copies of the proposal, "care for wetlands, protect wild animals" has penetrated into the hearts of the people, the people's awareness of protecting wetlands and loving birds and protecting birds has been enhanced. At the same time, the county has also prevented indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate hunting of wild animals and protected wetlands from destruction by strengthening the monitoring and protection of epidemic diseases at the source of the epidemic, setting up feeding points for migratory birds, and educating and guiding the people to protect wetlands and love animals.
Through a series of effective measures, the wetland area of Huainan in Huaibin County has gradually stabilized, and the number of animal and plant populations has been restored year by year. Today, birds fly in the sky in the county, people swim in the middle of the green, people and animals live in harmony, and a beautiful scene is slowly unfolding. (Xue Xiaolei, Fu Hao)