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People often say that Yunnan is the hometown of peacocks, and the peacocks mentioned here are green peacocks, which are national first-class protected animals and are rare and endangered wildlife species. At present, in China, it is only distributed in Yunnan.
Green peacocks are larger pheasants, and males will determine each other's territories by chirping, and if they find that there are female peacocks visiting their territories, they will post them on the open screen for courtship. Adult peacock tail screens are 2-3 meters long and have colorful feathers. When peacocks open the screen, they need a large open space, which is very necessary for them. In the valley of the middle and upper reaches of the YuanJiang River in central Yunnan, a large number of green peacock populations inhabit it.
Yang Xiaojun, researcher at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences: (Green peacock) the crown is gathered into a cluster, its feathers are like willow leaves, but the blue peacock's crown is fan-shaped, each feather is like a badminton racket, while the chest and neck color, the green peacock has the usual copper coin spots, a bit like the past Chinese copper coins, the scale spots are very obvious, the blue peacock does not.
According to the researchers, peacocks are divided into two major species of blue and green by the Himalayas. The blue peacock is mainly distributed in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and other places on the southern side of the Himalayas, compared to the blue peacock, the green peacock is more picky about the living environment. In recent years, Yunnan has accelerated the protection of green peacock habitats and the connection of ecological corridors to provide convenient conditions for population exchanges, and at the same time, through artificial feeding, patrolling, monitoring and other measures, a protection network has been formed around the habitat of green peacocks.
Han Lianxian, secretary general of the Wildlife Conservation Association of Yunnan Province: Scientists and local community residents participate in connecting the habitats of small rare and endangered animals through corridors to form a conservation network, which is more in line with China's current land use status and China's national conditions.
Yang Xiaojun, researcher at the Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: The number of green peacocks has now reached 555 to 600, which is less than 500 compared with the survey from 2014 to 2017. Therefore, from this point of view, the protection effect of the green peacock is still relatively significant.
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(Edited by Liu Zheng)