Dai Sheng (scientific name: Upupa epops): Is a bird of the family Dai Sheng, Dai Sheng family. The color is brownish red, the shape of the daisheng bird is extremely unique, the head is colorful feathers, the mouth is slender and pointed, very beautiful, it has become one of the ancient literati auspicious symbols since ancient times. When the dai sheng bird encounters a warning or chirping, the crown feathers stand up and relax after taking off. The song sounds like "grunt-grunt-cuckoo", also called stinky aunt, mountain monk,-crowned bird and so on. However, this bird is also known as the "coffin bird".
Why is such a beautiful bird called the "coffin bird"?
This has to do with its habits of life. The Daisheng bird looks like a woodpecker, but it cannot stand on trees or peck at hard trees like a woodpecker, and can only look for food on rotten wood and in loose soil. Among them, there is much of its food on the graves and decaying coffins, and the Daisheng bird often haunts here, so much so that it is called the "coffin bird". Although the daisheng bird is very beautiful in appearance, the bird is not a complete bird, and the daisheng bird is very smelly and smells a bit like rotten meat.
Why does Dai Sheng Bird stink?
In fact, the stink of the Daisheng bird is its means of self-preservation, the Daisheng bird is not as hygienic as other birds, they will leave their own feces in the nest, and do not clean the feces of the young birds, not only that, the female birds excrete a black-brown oily liquid from the tail glands during the incubation period, and even apply the stinky liquid to the bird eggs and cubs. It is said that this strange practice is to smoke away predators and protect young birds, thereby protecting the safety and health of young birds. This way is really to hurt the enemy eight hundred, self-inflicted damage of a thousand, what do you think?
Why is Dai Sheng Bird still an auspicious bird?
In China, the Dai Sheng bird symbolizes peace, happiness and happiness. It means "at the beginning of the millennium, Dai Sheng ruyi". Among the poets of ancient times, the shape of this bird was also praised. For example, there are many poems in ancient China that praise dai sheng bird.
"Title Dai Sheng" Don Jia Island
Star dot flower crown Taoist clothes,
The Purple Yang Palace Lady incarnated to fly.
Can pass on the news of the spring of the world,
If you go to Pengshan Mo to return.
Ancient literati also painted Dai Sheng in their paintings, and people regarded it as a symbol of "peace and beauty", and Israel regarded Dai Sheng as a national bird. Secondly, they are also industrious endorsement birds, in order to breed chicks will cross the mountains in search of food, and they are all agricultural pests, for humans they are "beneficial birds".
In addition, Dai Sheng Bird is also very loyal to his partner, monogamous in life, and the two birds raise their children together, which means that the family is harmonious and happy, so people call it an auspicious bird. Dai Sheng Bird is also a national second-level protected animal, please do not illegally trade and raise national animals.