"No one has ever seen it, the first time I've seen it, it's the first time I've seen this animal, and we haven't encountered it before."
One day in August 2009, at the home of Wang Baocai, a villager in Errenban Village in Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province, many villagers gathered to watch the liveliness, and they talked about the strange big bird that Wang Baocai had picked up.
This big bird looks a bit like a white crane, and a bit like an egret, tall and tall, with a pair of big legs that envy others, but everyone present does not know its true identity.
The local police immediately rushed to the scene when they learned the news, but they still could not identify it, and finally they could only invite experts, and after the experts saw it, they bluntly said that this was a "bird Chinese treasure".
So, what is the true identity of this big bird? Why did it appear in Wang Baocai's home? Three times in a row, click a follow.
First, the bird Chinese treasure, appeared in the farmhouse
One day in August 2009, the police station in Errenban Village, Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province, received a report from a farmer. The farmer, Wang Baocai, told the police that he had picked up a strange big bird in his family's crop field.
The strange big bird looked very chic, the long beak looked very sharp, hearing Wang Baocai's description, the police at the police station immediately decided to go back with Wang Baocai.
When the police saw the big bird, they could not recognize what kind it was, did not know what it was not the most headache thing, the most headache was that it was injured and now urgently needed treatment.
But the village is located in the middle of nowhere, there is no veterinary clinic, seeing the injury on the leg of the big bird, there is a risk of infection, the police had to find a doctor from the township hospital to temporarily save the scene.
When the doctor bandaged the big bird, the police asked Wang Bao how he got the big bird, and Wang Bao told the police that it was one evening, and he took his wife and children to the field to see the crops after dinner.
There was a distance of several kilometers from home to the crop field, and when Wang Baocai rushed to the crop field on a motorcycle, he suddenly found that there was a big bird in the field, and he originally thought that he had come to eat the crop, so he parked the car aside and ran to the field to blow the big bird away.
What none of them expected was that the big bird did not care at all about Wang Baocai's expulsion, and instead of flying away, it also jumped to the edge of the crop field.
At this time, Lao Wang wondered if he could catch up with this big bird, according to normal circumstances, ordinary birds will fly away immediately when they see people coming, how can this bird not be afraid of people?
When Lao Wang walked to this big bird, the big bird still had no intention of spreading its wings and flying high, he carefully looked at the big bird and found that it had a wound on its leg, as if it had cut a hole, and shed a lot of blood.
Seeing that the big bird was injured, Lao Wang was a little distressed, so he rushed over to carry it back to the village for treatment, but at this moment, an accident occurred. Lao Wang's three-year-old son saw that the big bird was a little scared, and he cried out at once, and this cry made Lao Wang distracted, and the hand that originally held the bird's beak was loosened, and this big bird also took advantage of this time to attack Lao Wang.
Lao Wang's face instantly shed blood, the child cried even more after seeing it, and the angry Lao Wang let go of the hand holding the big bird, thinking in his heart that I was kind enough to save you, but you took revenge like this, and turned around and wanted to leave.
However, the kind man did not do this, considering the injury on the leg of the big bird, I am afraid that it is difficult to fly today, this desolate wilderness, as soon as it gets dark, a wild dog or something comes out, and it is a sin to eat it directly.
So, Lao Wang simply wiped the wound on his face, turned around and brought the big bird home. After taking it home, he put the big bird into his own storehouse, and when the people in the village heard about it, they ran to the old Wang's house curiously to see the liveliness.
But the big guys looked at it for half a day, and they didn't see what kind of bird it was, saying that it was a red-crowned crane, and there was no trace of the iconic red on the head, saying that it was an ordinary white crane, it didn't seem to look like it.
Therefore, for the safety of this big bird, Lao Wang went to the police station. After listening to Wang Baocai's statement, the police proposed that the couple raise a big bird first, and then find experts to identify it when its injury is better.
Hearing this proposal, Wang Baocai and his wife directly agreed with their mouths, but before they could be happy for long, a headache appeared.
Second, picky eaters of big birds, real identity
After the doctor at the township hospital bandaged the wound of the big bird, Wang Baocai's wife mixed a little corn and bran for the big bird according to the method of feeding the poultry, but one night passed, and Wang Bao, who went to check the situation early in the morning, found that the big bird did not move a mouthful of corn and bran in that large basin.
In his heart, he wondered if the big bird could do this, and if he was injured and did not eat, how could his body withstand it? Wang Baocai's wife guessed that if this big bird did not eat corn and bran, would it eat vegetables?
So, she rushed to her own vegetable field and personally got some fresh vegetable leaves to send to the big bird, but the big bird still looked uninterested, let alone eating, and did not even look at it.
"I'm worried, I thought you don't eat anything, you're starving again, you're blind, pick it up, we think this animal is quite strange, we have to feed it well, but don't die."
In the next two days, Wang Baocai and his wife tried various possible foods to feed the big birds, but the big birds never had half an interest in eating, and seeing that the big birds' bodies could not be carried, the helpless Wang Baocai and his wife decided to ask the police for help.
After the police at the police station learned of this news, they felt that the first task now was to find out the identity of this big bird, know what kind of bird it is, and don't you know what it likes to eat?
But this identity is really not so easy to know, whether it is the police at the police station, or the elderly people in the village, no one can recognize it, in the end, the police at the police station decided to take a photo to ask online.
So, two policemen personally rushed to Wang Baocai's home, taking a picture of the big bird Kaka, when these photos were posted to the Internet, everyone waited with bated breath, hoping that someone could give a reliable answer.
The kung fu pays off, and the photos taken by the police at the police station let the people of the local forestry department see it, and they initially judged that this big bird should be a rare animal of the country, an oriental white stork known as the "bird Chinese treasure".
The number of this oriental white stork in the world is not more than 3,000, belonging to the endangered species, and when he heard that the big bird he picked up was such a rare animal, Wang Baocai's mood was excited and nervous.
Since the Internet speculates that this big bird is an oriental white stork, what does it usually eat? Wang Baocai looked at the comments on the Internet and found that many people were saying that the Oriental White Stork liked to eat fish, so he thought about buying some crucian carp to come back and see if the big birds would eat it.
Wang Baocai's wife felt that this idea was reliable, so she hurried to the vegetable market to buy some crucian carp, and as soon as she returned home, she poured it into the basin and brought it to the big bird, just when everyone thought that the big bird was finally going to eat, the big bird was still looking uninterested.
Doesn't it mean that this big bird is an oriental white stork? Doesn't it mean that the Eastern White Stork eats fish? What does this big bird like to eat? Wang Baocai and his wife have broken their hearts for the diet of the big bird, and they are worried that before the identity is confirmed, the bird will starve to death first, which is too sinful.
At this time, Wang Baocai's wife thought of something, that is, loach, I don't know if this big bird eats loach? She went to the vegetable market again, bought some small loach and came back, and when she put a pot of loach in front of the big bird, a miracle happened.
The big bird, who was originally in good spirits, began to be a little excited at the moment of seeing the loach, completely ignoring Wang Baocai and his wife who were still in the house, and ate the loach in the basin.
Seeing this scene, the couple, the hanging heart finally put down, tried so much food, no one expected that this big bird actually likes to eat loach, knowing the habits of the big bird, Wang Baocai's wife went out early every morning to buy loach, under their careful care, the big bird's injury also slowly improved.
Time passed day by day, the relationship between the Wang family and the big bird became better and better, and every time Wang Bao opened the door and came in, the big bird would fly in front of him, just like the family pet, very close to them.
However, after a long time of feeding, the Wang family also encountered a tricky problem, that is, the food of this big bird is relatively large, feeding two loaches a day, which is really high.
Their family is just an ordinary farmer in the village, living on farming on weekdays, a pair of children are still young, they have to pay attention to nutrition in terms of eating, and now they raise this big bird, and the family's economic pressure is really big.
During that time, in order to feed the loach to the big birds, Wang Baocai's wife had to reduce the diet of some of her children, and at the same time, she borrowed a lot of money from the neighbors around her, just to make the big birds eat better.
After learning of the difficulties in Wang Baocai's home, the local police station police immediately took measures, and every morning, the police would bring fresh loach to Wang Baocai's home to share some of the pressure of raising big birds for their family.
In this way, under the joint care of the Wang family and the police, the big bird gradually recovered from his injuries, and at this time, the police at the police station contacted the experts of the Xingkai Lake Conservation Area, which is 150 kilometers away from the village.
The expert was invited to Wang Baocai's home, and at the first sight of the big bird, he determined that this big bird was indeed the "bird Chinese treasure" Oriental White Stork. So, as a national first-class protected animal, how can the Eastern White Stork appear in the wang family's crop field?
Experts told everyone that the location of the village is the Sanjiang Plain in the northeast, and every spring, there will be oriental white storks flying here to breed and live for a period of time, and then, waiting until August and September to move south.
The reason why this oriental white stork appeared in the crops of the Wang family should be because it was injured in its leg during the flight southward and was forced to land here, and coincidentally, it happened that Wang Bao just happened to meet it that day.
Third, migrate south and say goodbye
The wild number of eastern white storks is very small, and the probability of ordinary people encountering it can be said to be the same as winning the million lottery. After listening to the expert's words, Wang Baocai was so happy that he couldn't do it, such things have touched him, it is simply too lucky.
Looking at Wang Baocai, who was happy, the expert proposed to him that it is now in the migration period of the Eastern White Stork, if it is not released, the weather is cold, and the migration time is missed, then it can only stay here.
This is an extremely unfavorable thing for wild eastern white storks, long-term domestic environment, will make the wild nature of oriental white storks degraded, over time, it is likely to be unable to fly again.
Hearing this, Wang Jiacun's face collapsed at once, although he was very reluctant to let the big bird leave, but for the sake of the reproduction of the Eastern White Stork Population, in order to protect rare animals, he could only bear the pain and agree to release.
After consultation between all parties, the release time of the Oriental White Stork was finally set for September 22, however, what everyone did not expect was that the accident still happened.
"During the day, the experts grabbed it, finished measuring the height, I went in and grabbed it, flew against the wall, broke the shoulder, and there was a little blood."
Seeing that the wings of the big bird were injured, Wang Baocai's wife was so distressed that she immediately took out the anti-inflammatory medicine at home and gently medicated it, and the next morning, before the release, Wang Baocai's wife went to the morning market, bought a lot of loach back, and wanted to let it eat enough on the road.
At noon, the police and experts of the police station came to the Wang family, and everyone took the big bird to a wetland on the edge of Xingkai Lake in a cardboard box, and on the way, everyone was worried about whether the oriental white stork, which had been in captivity for so long, could still fly to the sky.
When they arrived at the place, everyone did not take the big bird out at the first time, but let it adapt to the sunlight outside first, and after a while, the police at the police station stepped forward and removed the cardboard box, and then the crowd slowly disappeared.
This oriental white stork stood on the wetland, and there was no sign of taking off for half a day, which made the big guys' hearts hang up, should it really not fly?
After adapting to the wetland for nearly half an hour, the eastern white stork spread its wings, directly pulled up from the ground, and flew into the sky, but it did not fly to the distance at the first time, but circled a few times above people's heads, as if thanking everyone for their help.
Although animals can't speak human words, their feelings with humans are still very sincere, they know that when humans are good to them, they will repay the favor, Wang Baocai's family looked at the big bird that was far away, and hoped to see each other again in the next year.
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