A few days ago, the national second-level protected animal, the rare Chinese "most beautiful water bird", appeared in a wetland park in Hainan, and the local staff took a precious picture of the purple water chicken cubs going out to forage, it seems that they have settled here and have a good life.
However, what is unexpected is that the purple water chicken, a rare protected animal in China, is not pleasing in the local area in North America and New Zealand, and has even been hunted on a large scale.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >What is a purple water chicken? </h1>
This is a small and medium-sized bird, and their feathers are mostly purple or blue, which also gives them their name.
Purple water chicken as a kind of water bird, mainly living around lakes, rivers, often in the swamp and reeds, is the easiest to find them, of course, although the name with the word "chicken", but the purple water chicken is also able to fly, but they are not very good at flying, generally on land activities.
From the distribution point of view, the purple water chicken is basically all over the world, in addition to some and special places because of the scarcity of the number, there has been a functional extinction, the purple water chicken in the world, is a non-endangered species, and in some places, even flooding situation.
Seeing this, I believe that some friends will be curious, since the purple water chicken has no risk of extinction, why is it a protected animal in China? This is because the distribution of purple water chicken in China is not much.
From the distribution point of view, the distribution of purple water chicken in China, mainly in a few areas such as Yunnan and Fujian in China, and the number of wild populations is also very small, coupled with their own scientific research value, therefore, nature has become China's national second-level protected animals, to put it bluntly, it is also "according to local conditions".
For our country, many people are very fond of purple water chickens, because they are very good-looking, and there is no danger, but in many Western countries, people hate purple water chickens very much, and even often kill them on a large scale.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="21" > mass killings of purple waterfowl in North America and New Zealand</h1>
Although a species of birds, purple water chickens generally do not like to fly, and their food is very mixed, which makes when a local purple water chicken flood, it is threatening to other creatures of the same type.
For example, in New Zealand, due to the flooding of purple water chickens, it has led to the rare southern buzzard, becoming more precarious, you know, in the world, the number of wild south buzzards is only a few hundred, naturally, in order to protect this endangered species, New Zealand will also kill the purple water chicken on a large scale.
And the purple water chicken is also a "trickster" in birds, they for other birds of the same type, in order to get more food and habitat space, to destroy the nests of other birds, and even destroy the eggs laid by other birds, so that the flooded purple water chicken has become the "little bully" in the relevant ecological circle, naturally also need to control their number, to avoid them and other species.
Speaking of which, in the process of large-scale killing of purple water chicken in New Zealand, there is often a case of accidental killing of the south water chicken, because from the appearance point of view, the south water chicken and the purple water chicken look too similar, in 2018, there have been 3 precious south water chickens, so now New Zealand hunts the purple water chicken, it is also cautious and cautious, after all, the purple water chicken is often there, and the south water chicken is not often there.
In addition to New Zealand, the same is true of the purple water chicken in the United States, according to the data, the purple water chicken began to flood in the United States, from 1992, at that time, due to the impact of a super hurricane in the eastern United States, resulting in the destruction of a zoo, the purple water chicken raised in the park fled, and settled in the local wetland.
At first, people still liked these beautiful water birds, but with the increasing number of purple water chickens, this led to a crisis in the local ecosystem.
Because the purple water chicken breeds too fast, and they are too edible, these have led to other local species, are threatened, and after the purple water chicken increases to a certain extent, they also start from the eastern United States and spread to other parts of the United States, which also leads to more wetland ecosystems, which is threatened.
Therefore, in the United States, purple water chicken is not a protected animal, people can also hunt them, and the United States has also suggested that people eat these purple water chicken, but because they are too small, and the taste is not so good, it is like "Asian carp" and so on, purple water chicken in the United States, there is no market at all, naturally, it leads to more and more of them.
However, in New Zealand, there are many people who like to eat purple water chicken, in the season when hunting is allowed, there will also be people who hunt purple water chicken specifically to satisfy the appetite, which is also a kind of behavior supported by the local government, after all, for these purple water chicken flood countries, eliminating purple water chicken, everyone is responsible.