"There are a bunch of green birds with white circles on the cover, which should be dark green embroidered bird." But the dark green embroidered eye bird is very small, only about 10cm, not as big as the picture painted" "The first lesson "Egret", the white heron bird has five main species of distribution in China" "The fourth lesson "Pearl Bird" is an artificial variant of the chest spotted grass finch"... Recently, a fifth-grade girl in Shanghai "pickpocketed" all the "birds" in the Chinese textbook, studied them well, and pointed out the inappropriateness. The girl's screen name "Little Dai Ju" (a cute little bird) is a bird watching fan who does not love Linga Belle, but loves birds.
Tweet in the "Little Dai Ju" WeChat public account.
The "bird" in the "deep pickpocket" textbook was praised by the "big god" in the circle
Since going to the Shanghai Botanical Garden more than two years ago to participate in a bird watching lecture, "Little Dai Ju" has gradually fallen in love with bird watching, into the pit, out of control, but everywhere there are "birds" must be deeply investigated. Recently, she has been competing with the fifth grade Chinese textbook.
In her eyes, the language textbook is like this:
"There is a pair of green birds with white circles on the cover, which should be dark green embroidered bird." But the dark green embroidered eye bird is very small, only about 10cm, not as big as the picture is painted. The color is also not right. The dark green embroidered bird has yellow-green plumage and subtle transitions. ”
After the cover study, "Little Dai Ju" began to study the first lesson "Egret".
She records:
There are five main kinds of white heron birds in China, and the heron birds in the same frame that I photographed are egrets, egrets, and great egrets.
In studying Lesson 11, The Cowherd Weaver Girl (II), she wrote:
The magpie in the picture is drawn exactly correctly, praise!
By the way, the cool blue-black color on magpie feathers is a structural color that varies from angle to angle, sometimes blue, sometimes black, sometimes colorful.
After studying Lesson 23, "Bird's Paradise", "Little Dai Ju" had a question: Where is this "Bird's Paradise"? In addition to a thrush that the author knows, what are the birds that are startled by the "big, small, flowery, black"? It is also not stated in the text. So, she went online to look up some information:
"The Bird Paradise is located in Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, and the main body of the Bird Paradise is actually a water banyan tree that grew in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the branches of the water banyan tree hang down to the ground, plunge into the soil, and become a new trunk. With the passage of time, the big banyan trees became a forest of thousands of birds and finches, and the birds and trees were interdependent.
Birds in bird paradise are most common among night herons, pond herons, bull-backed herons and egrets. In addition, there are nearly 40 species of great egrets, white wagtails, magpie plovers, squid plovers, great, white-headed plovers, red-eared plovers, dark green embroidered-eyed birds, mercerous starlings, common kingfishers, white-breasted emeralds, and bead-necked doves.
In this way, starting from the cover, "Little Dai Ju" found out every place involving birds in the textbook, combined with his knowledge of birds, bird photographs and bird watching practices, and studied it.
In addition to the little girl's spirit of inquiry won praise from insiders, the bird watching master, who was called "Big God" by the younger generation, also enthusiastically pointed out several limitations of her understanding for "Little Dai Ju". After carefully studying and comprehending, "Little Dai Ju" sent another "Correction."
Originally, "Little Dai Ju" believed that in an illustration of the first lesson "Egret", it was not right for the egret to straighten its neck when flying, and the heron bird was shrinking its neck when it flew. The bird watcher told her that most of the time herons fly with their necks shrunk, but they can also see that they have their necks straight, especially when taking off and landing.
Illustration of an egret in the fifth grade Chinese textbook.
In her study of Lesson 7, "What's Faster Than a Cheetah," she pointed out that the world's fastest bird in the text mentions that the fastest divers are peregrine falcons, but the accompanying picture is not a peregrine falcon, but a black kite. In fact, in the eyes of bird watching experts, the textbook illustrations are painted with "four unlikes", which do not conform to the characteristics of peregrine falcons, nor are they black kites.
Illustration of a peregrine falcon in a Chinese textbook
"Little Dai Ju" said that after each unit of the Language class, they had to write an essay. And she never bothers with writing essays, because no matter what the essay topic is, she can write about bird watching. For example, the essay written this semester:
Recommend a good book: The Bird Book
One happy thing: go bird watching with mom
XX Scene: The Black-bellied Sandpiper Group under the sunset in the Magic Forest Inner Pond
In short, it's all about bird watching.
"Little Dai Ju" was watching birds at Nanhui Dongtan for filming.
In addition to in-depth study of the "bird" in the language textbook, "Little Dai Ju" once competed with the "red-crowned crane". The reason was that once when she was drawing a bookmark at school, she found that the red-crowned crane drawn on the bookmark by a classmate was wrong, and the classmate told her that it was a model of the red-crowned crane in a painting in the family, and that was how the painting was drawn.
Therefore, "Xiao Dai Ju" found out the pictures of the red-crowned crane in the "Chinese Bird Observation Manual", compared it with the 2021 primary school students' ancient poetry conference designated books, folding fans in stationery stores, handbook tape, tea pots at home, advertisements for a well-known Chinese medicine shop, a corporate calendar, Song Huizong's "Ruihe Tu", the official clothes of a qing Dynasty civil official, the red-crowned crane in Japanese ukiyo-e paintings, etc., and found that only a few pictures were correct, and most of them had various inconsistencies.
I have studied all the things that have "red-crowned cranes" in life.
Wang Ximin, a domestic nature education expert and director of the Science Popularization Department of Chenshan Botanical Garden, forwarded 2 WeChat public account tweets of "Little Dai Ju" in the circle of friends, and commented: "This baby is so smart, it must be liked!" "What is inquiry-based learning?" This is an example. ”
Don't love Ling Na Belle prefer bird watching, "retrograde" south of the east beach in the cold tide
"Little Dai Ju", whose real name is Zhou Xinyi, is a student of a public primary school in Xuhui District. Her classmates were amazed and puzzled by her bird watching ability, and often asked her, "How can you remember so many bird names?" Whenever this happened, Zhou Xinyi would ask, "How can you remember Ling na Belle and make the relationship between Disney characters clear?" ”
For Xinyi, the agile elves in nature are her favorites, "I think the birds are cute and can soar freely in the sky." You can also learn a lot from bird watching, cultivate observation, and become more attentive. After bird watching, I also discovered the joys of life and made many like-minded friends. ”
Almost all people in birdwatching circles have a natural name, and they use natural names to communicate with each other online. Xinyi named herself "Little Dai Ju" because she thought Dai Ju was small and cute, especially when she was angry. Last February, she first saw Dai Ju in front of her eyes at the Shanghai Botanical Garden.
Since falling in love with bird watching, one day on every weekend, there are no special circumstances, Xinyi will always take the subway line 16 to Nanhui Dongtan bird watching accompanied by her mother. This "long" drive seems to many people, but in the eyes of the mother and daughter, it is OK, "from home, the subway only takes 1 hour and 20 minutes." ”
On December 26 last year, it was the cold wave "attack" that the minimum temperature fell below zero. Xinyi and her mother still went to Nanhui Dongtan, "The sea is colder." The mother and daughter were not lightly frozen, but Xinyi saw the moving scene of white spoonbills, black-faced spoonbills and a group of about 300 round and rolling black-bellied sandpipers foraging at close range, and also met bird friends, and felt very warm inside.
During the cold wave, bird watching at Nanhui Dongtan.
Since falling in love with bird watching, I have become more motivated to learn. "Because I have to go bird watching on the weekend, I finish my homework on Fridays." Xinyi said.
She also drew birds, made stickers, and exchanged food with classmates. In this regard, the little girl is a little proud.
Bird stickers and paintings made by Xinyi.
For the child's hobbies, the mother fully supports, not only accompanies her daughter to watch birds every time, but also learns some bird watching knowledge by herself, and also takes on the text modification and typesetting work of her daughter's WeChat public account. Mom said that encouraging children to study textbooks and study the "birds" in various things around them is not to provoke thorns, but to cultivate a spirit of inquiry and a ability to learn by themselves.
Over the past two years of bird watching, Xinyi has recorded more than 200 bird species in Shanghai and is working towards a higher goal.
The "rise" of bird watching fans after the 10th generation of magic capital
In addition to Xinyi, there are also a group of post-10 bird watching fans who are "rising" in Shanghai. Some of them have accumulated more than 400 bird species records, and their bird watching strength exceeds that of some adult bird watchers. In the 16th Shanghai Citizens Bird Watching Competition held last year, the bird watching group composed of Wang Qingyang, Li Wenyan, Wang Tianen and several other children won the first place in the competition, which made the predecessors of the Shanghai Bird Watching Circle sigh, "The back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave." ”
The children won the first place in the Civic Bird Watching Competition.
First grade student Wang Tianen began to watch birds from the second grade, as long as there is time to go out to watch birds, shoot birds, has been insisting until now, has saved more than 470 kinds of bird records, Chongming Dongtan, Nanhui Dongtan and other bird watching points in and around Shanghai repeatedly went many times, Qinghai, Yunnan, Henan, Jiangsu and other bird watching resorts have also been punched.
The little girl Wang Qingyang is also a master bird watcher, who has been watching birds since March 2019 and has recorded about 400 species of birds. The little boy Li Wenyan was influenced by his mother and became a bird watching enthusiast, as long as he has free time on weekends, he will definitely go out to watch birds.
In last year's competition, people who may not recognize birds have not even found where the birds are, and these children have not only found the birds hiding in the treetops and swimming on the lake, but also quickly recognized their names, and by the time you react, they have jumped to the next point to find the birds.
Kids bird watching.
Some of the parents of these children are bird watchers themselves, and some do not understand birds, but they all have a heart that loves nature and supports the development of children's interests.
Because of their common hobbies, these children and parents who originally lived in different parts of the city and did not know each other became friends.
The cultivation and development of children's interests is inseparable from the support of parents.
Shanghai's bird watching began more than 20 years ago, and it was one of the first cities in China to carry out bird watching activities, initially with only a small group of bird watchers. More than 20 years later, the earliest bird watching enthusiasts have become "big gods" level figures, and some have retreated to the rivers and lakes. Fortunately, through years of bird watching activities, the old bring the new, and the "bird generation" of the magic capital has bred the "second generation of birds". In recent years, with the rise of nature education institutions in Shanghai, nature education activities have been enriched and vigorously developed, which has provided children and parents with growth opportunities, further cultivated their interests and hobbies, and further established the concept of protecting the ecological environment.
Source: Thoughtful Shanghai