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The season of spring blossoms is also the season of bird breeding. Recently, a pair of small owls appeared in Jiangsu Jurong Chishan Lake National Wetland Park, they rub their heads from time to time, licking their hair "show" love, this process was captured by photography enthusiasts, full of fun, people can't help but be funny.
Monitors found that they were longitudinal-bellied owls, a national grade II protected animal, that had nested on a roof in a wetland park. The longitudinal-ventral owl is a member of the order Owl, Owl family, and the genus Owl, and is one of the smallest members of the owl family, with a total size of 21 to 23 cm from beginning to end, weighing 105 to 260 grams, and if the head is shrunk up in its natural state, it is only the size of one palm of a person.
Interestingly, the longitudinal-bellied owl was the bird of love of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, in ancient Greek legend. Its scientific name is Athene noctua, which translates to "Athena's Little Owl". The longitudinal belly owl is chubby, with a pair of large eyes, bright yellow eyes, dark pupils, and a colored eyebrow stripe above the eyes, a cute face. It is not like the long-eared owl and the eagle owl, the top of the head has a cluster of ear feathers, the top of the head is relatively flat, like the small flat head left by human haircuts, the upper body is brown, dotted with white longitudinal stripes and spots, the lower part is white, covered with brown spots and longitudinal stripes, and there are two white or skin-yellow transverse spots on the shoulders.
The longitudinal-bellied owl is one of the few owls that can move during the day and is extremely adaptable. The longitudinal-bellied owl nests in a burrow, which can be a tree hole, a stone crevice in a mountain, or a crevice in a building. The pair of longitudinal-bellied owls in Jurong Chishanhu National Wetland Park nest in a gap in a roof. It is currently the breeding season for the longitudinal-bellied owl. The longitudinal-bellied owl breeds monogamously. Early in the breeding season, the males stand high in the center of the territory and make a loud, long, long, "biu-biu-biu-biu", and the females sometimes respond with a few. In the spring evening and within two or three hours of dark, this call is often most likely to be heard.
There is an old saying: "Advise the king not to fight the three spring birds, and the son is in the nest waiting for the return of the mother." "Spring is the season for birds to breed, and the birds are anxiously waiting in their nests for their parents to return. I call on my friends to start from me and care for wild birds from now on. (CCTV reporter Wu Rui, Yang Zhiguo)
(Edited by Wan Xuanyan)