If there is a special call from the cat outside the window, not the old driver also knows that the cat wants to "snap". As humans, we hear the most ostentatious spring call in animals, and I am afraid that it is not a cat! In fact, in Singapore, the call of spring is not a cat, there is an animal that challenges the cat with its own hoarse spring sound.
Listen, it's calling here.
Familiar? Never heard it, but don't say you've been to Singapore! It can be said that this call is the most impressive bird song we have heard in Singapore.
Because their eyes are red, some people call them red-eyed birds, and their other common names include sister-in-law birds, ghost Guo Gong, brother good finches, po good birds, called spring birds, but ~ people call them noisy cranes.
The Latin scientific name is: Eudynamys scolopacea
The English name is Asian Kole
The noisy cuckoo is a bird of the genus Cuckoo in the family Rhododendron, a resident bird, distributed in India, the South Pacific Islands and Sichuan, Hainan and other places in China, feeding on fruits, seeds and insects. The average adult cuckoo is 39–46 cm tall and weighs around 350 grams. It looks a bit like a crow, and a little bit like a dove, but it's bigger than all of them.
It's a male noisy crane, cool, all black and glowing blue. All we usually hear is male cries.
It is a female cuckoo with a dark brown upper body, a metallic green glow, and covered with small white spots.
These noisy cranes have a solitary personality, come and go alone every day, maybe the noise is too loud, no face to see people, so they often hide in the lush foliage at the top of the tree, so that we can only listen to its voice and disappear. Speaking of their cries, it is really very distinctive, the sound is like a cry, it is as loud as a poignant single, louder than the rooster's crow.
The "Oh oh, kow wow" accent falls on the second syllable, and you can call 12 times in one breath, and you keep raising the key to yourself, which is really hoarse. Especially from March to August every year, during their breeding season, it is called a hard work.
When it comes to breeding, this bird is very thief and adheres to the three no's principles: no nesting, no incubation of eggs, and no fertility. They will lay their eggs in the nests of mynas, magpies, crows, red-billed blue magpies, yellow orioles, etc., and let other birds incubate and raise them instead.
I have to say, Noisy Crane, count you fierce!
Because the noisy cranes often scream at any time and place, disturbing people's dreams, the Singapore Agriculture, Food and Veterinary Authority often receives complaints from residents about them. In the previous 10 months of 2017, 400 complaints about bird calls were received. In view of this, the authorities have taken measures to deal with the problem by pruning trees and removing food sources for noisy cranes (which means starving one less?). ）
However, the Bureau of Agriculture and Food also emphasizes that the noisy crane plays an important role in the local ecological environment! Helps to control the number of crows (it is said that the little noisy crane will eat the old bird that grew up with it after other people's parents have grown up, and then leave, do you have a conscience?). ）。 In general, the local noisy cranes mostly share space with crows, and as long as there are fruit trees or crows infested places, noisy cranes may appear.
In Singapore, as long as it is not poultry, any wild animals and birds are protected animals, and you can't catch them and play, sell them, kill them and eat them. It is also a part of this world, although the cries of the noisy crane may disturb you, but it also has the right to continue to call it that way-
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