China has a long history, some folk customs have even been passed down for thousands of years, such as magpies related to magpies, meaning a good omen of auspicious patterns such as "magpie dengmei" and "hi shangmei", in the Tang Dynasty has appeared in the folk, and now there are still many people who like magpie-related window flowers, and every New Year will be replaced with a new auspicious.
Magpies have always been considered "annunciation birds", and few people will actively harm them, which also makes them have a relatively moist life in the modern era when the survival of wild animals is becoming more and more difficult. With the improvement of China's wildlife protection law in recent years, the protection efforts have been strengthened year by year, and magpies have become more and more common, but their reputation has gradually declined.
Maybe you have a hard time believing that the reputation of this auspicious bird will decline? In fact, because the range of human activities is getting wider and wider, some of the ways of living of magpies have become more and more obvious, and more and more troubles have been brought to people, which has led to their beginning to be unpopular with some people. This is first manifested in their eating habits.
Magpie is an omnivore, not only eating a variety of insects, but also eating plant seeds in the wild, but also has a special love for crops in the field, such as corn and soybean seeds that have just been planted, and crops such as soybeans, corn and wheat that are about to ripen, and if they are not careful, they will be ruined by magpies.
In addition, magpies also like to eat wild fruits and fruits in orchards, and they can distinguish which are ripe fruits, which directly leads to the fruits planted by the growers such as cherries, apples, watermelons and peaches, once targeted by magpies, which is ripe and pecked which. Therefore, in the orchard, it is often seen that some ripe fruits have left pits on them, which makes the growers very helpless.
Magpies are also scavengers and predators. Sometimes you'll see magpies on the road eating carrion next to rotting animal carcasses, and you'll see them rummaging through bins in search of food.
And while there is no evidence that magpies have a negative impact on the populations of other birds, as carnivorous predators, magpies attack other birds, eating the eggs and young birds of other birds. This also makes the magpie look a little "dirty" and a little "evil"...
Perhaps it is precisely for the above reasons that some people have to find ways to "deal" with magpies, but magpies not only have a beautiful meaning in our country, but also "three protected animals", which cannot be hurt and caught casually. This makes some people feel very tired of the magpie, but they can only find a way to expel it.
For magpies, who are already very intelligent and extremely protective of their nests and cubs, even if they do not cause harm to them, they will occasionally pounce from the air to special people. Studies have shown that magpies are one of the most intelligent animals in the world, with a good memory and recognition of different faces.
A foreign animal behaviorist who has studied magpies for more than 20 years once said: "Magpies can remember not only friends, but also enemies." ”。
According to him, thousands of people are injured in magpie attacks every year in Australia, and about 20 per cent of residents of large magpie habitats have had magpies swooping down on them, when they were generally riding bicycles, jogging, walking or walking their pets.
The magpie's dive can be caught off guard and sometimes even cause damage. The ethologist believes that the best way to avoid such a thing is "friendship."
He noted that if you show up in the same place frequently and don't hurt the magpie's behavior, the magpie may treat you like a friendly neighbor and won't pounce on you.
Thankfully, magpie attacks on humans seem to be rare in China, but we still can't take it lightly, and we can't be hostile to and hurt them because they eat some crops and fruits, after all, magpies are human friends and can help us control insect pests.