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Today to introduce you to a beautiful bird, it is a songbird, but in more than ten years, it was almost extinct by Chinese! It is the yellow-breasted bunting, this name you may not know, it also has a name called the grass finches, first look at its basic information!
Chinese scientific name --- yellow-breasted bunting
The English name --- Hello-breasted Bunting
Also known as --- yellow bile, grass finches, yellow belly sacs, yellow bean paste, wheat yellow finches, old iron backs, golden bunting, white-shouldered bunting
The --- animal kingdom
Phylum --- Chordate phylum
Subphylum --- vertebrate subphyla
Order --- ornithischia
Suborder --- suborder Ornithopodium
Order --- Passeriformes
Family --- Bunting family
Genus --- Bunting genus
Species --- yellow-breasted bunting
Subspecies --- 2 species
The yellow-breasted bunting is a small bird with a black forehead, crown, chin, and throat, and a chestnut or chestnut red on the top of the head and upper body; a dark brown tail with long wedge-like white spots on the outer pairs of tail feathers; and a black-brown wing with a narrow white band and a wide white wing spot on the wings. The underparts are bright yellow and have a dark maroon transverse band on the chest.
Females have brown or yellowish brown upperparts, thick black-brown central longitudinal stripes, waist and tail coverts are chestnut red, both wings and tails are black brown, the middle covert has broad white end spots, and the large coverts with narrow gray-brown end spots also form two pale wing spots, and the eyebrow skin is yellowish white. The underparts are pale yellow , the thorax has no transverse bands , and the two flanks have chestnut-brown longitudinal stripes.
Body weight ♂20-29 g, ♀18.5-24 g; body length ♂134-159 mm, ♀130-158 mm; mouth peak ♂9-12 mm, ♀10-12 mm; wings ♂70-79 mm, ♀69-79 mm; tail ♂53-70 mm, ♀50-63 mm; tarsal ♂19-22 mm, ♀18-22 mm. (Note: ♂ male; ♀ female)
It inhabits shrublands, meadows, meadows and forest edges in low hills and open plains, especially likes shrublands and meadows near streams, lakes and swamps, and also inhabits shrub meadows and fields and fields with sparse willow, birch and poplar trees.
The food eaten varies from season to season, with the breeding season feeding mainly on insects and insect larvae, as well as some small invertebrates and plant foods such as grasses, seeds and fruits.
It is distributed in most parts of the world, in China, breeding in northeast China and The Siberian region of Russia, wintering in the southeast coast of China, South Asia and Southeast Asia, and passing through most parts of China during the migration of spring and autumn every year.
However, in the process of wintering, most of the world's grass finches like to first detour to Siberia, and then cross the whole of China from the north to the south of China, and it is in this process that the grass finches suffered a catastrophe!
The story of the Grass Flower Sparrow seems to be more absurd than these, since the 1990s, there have been rumors in the Guangzhou area that the Grass Flower Sparrow can supplement the kidney, and we still can't understand the basis of this statement, and how the connection between the Grass Flower Sparrow and the kidney is established.
But the market and diners do not seem to care, after all, "prefer to believe that there is", after all, kidney supplementation is the most important therapeutic effect of Chinese diners.
No matter how many grass finches can not withstand this way of eating, a large number of market demand, pulled the price of the grass finches, at the beginning of the grass finches are a bunch of strings, a plate of plate is eaten, and with the rise in prices, the grass finches began to sell only, it also from a snack, into a privileged food, which stimulated the enthusiasm of suppliers, so they began to cross provinces to catch the grass finches - first near Guangdong Fujian, Zhejiang, and then the north of Hebei, Shandong, to 2001, More than 100,000 yellow-breasted buntings were seized on trains from Tianjin to Guangdong, and within a few years, European scientists immediately noticed a plummeting of the yellow-breasted bunting.
The population of the yellow-breasted bunting plummeted, starting with the hype in Guangdong in the 1990s, when it was able to support itself with a large aggregate, but then finally reached a critical point.
The yellow-breasted bunting had been in a state of no-danger (as the name suggests) on the IUCN IUCN until 2004, but for the next 13 years, it soared, half-foot into the abyss of extinction, and finally at the end of 17 years, it became a critically endangered species.
Currently, the Finches are listed on the IUCN 2012 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 – Endangered.com.
Listed on the IUCN's 2017 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 – Critically Endangered (CR).
I hope that the government and animal protection organizations can actively formulate programs and measures to severely crack down on hunting and trafficking, and do not let us only watch its popular science films on TV in the future, only to know that there are still such beautiful birds in the world!
There is no killing without buying and selling, and I hope everyone will encourage you!