The Eagle Owl (scientific name: Ninox scutulata) is a medium-sized owl with a body length of 30 cm, named after its appearance like an eagle. Eagle owl are nocturnal birds that can't see clearly during the day, sleep in trees, and come out at night to hunt for prey. National second-level protected animals.
Because of its appearance like an eagle, it is named the owl - eagle owl. Nocturnal animals have particularly large eyes.
The hawk owl is a summer migratory bird in northern China and a resident bird in the south. Eagle owl have a reproductive trait – they adjust their annual spawning amount with the amount of food they have, ranging from 2 to 3 eggs per clutch.
A pair of eagle owl parents come to the campus of Peking University every summer to nest in the same ancient tree hole, where they have been successfully bred for many years due to the abundance of food. The first thing I knew and photographed was the eagle owl, which was the breeding season for birds seven summers ago. In early July, baby hawks are growing up and about to emerge from the nest. At that time, in order to minimize the influence and interference in the life of the eagle owl, the news that there were eagle owl in Peking University was kept secret, and few people knew about it.
The Hawk Owl is a nocturnal bird of prey that is energetic at night
Eagle owl parents come out at night to catch prey for their children
Stand on a large quaint roof
It was an old courtyard in Beidali, the house was an old house, the tree was an ancient tree, and the eagle owl stood on a big tree in front of the door during the day, and under it were teachers and students entering and leaving the garden, and people and birds had nothing to do with each other. In fact, the eagle owl is close at hand, and most of the teachers and students who pass by can see them as long as they look up. At that time, it was easier to enter and exit the gate of Peking University (now there are too many people visiting, and it is much stricter to enter and exit the school), and I was moving forward to the school at sunset in the evening, when the eagle owl parents were motionless in the trees, and they could clearly observe and photograph them.
Come out at night to forage for food and stand on the big roof of the old house to observe
In July, the baby hawk owl came out of the nest
Baby Hawk owl waiting for their parents to return food
When night falls, the hawk owl comes alive, preying on prey for the children in the tree hole. I was surprised to find that the main prey that the hawk owl had caught was bats! There are many bats in the old house, which may be the reason why the hawk owl chooses this place as the nest site, because during breeding, it is most important to ensure that the baby owl has something to eat.
Hawks on the Peking University campus eat bats
Later, it is said that in order to protect the ancient trees, the hole in the eagle owl's nest was filled with cement by the school's gardeners three years ago, and the eagle owl had to leave there to choose another nest site. Two years ago, photographers found two nests of nest-bred hawk owls on trees on the west bank of Beijing's Summer Palace, not far from the campus of Peking University.
The Eagle Owl who turns a blind eye to the Summer Palace
Baby eagle owl at the Summer Palace
As long as we establish the concept of loving birds and loving nature, learn bird knowledge, and put it into practice, pay attention to observation, perseverance, we will also find the birds around us and tell stories of living in harmony with them.
【About Peking University Nature Reserve】
Peking University has such a course, advocating such an ecological concept from the first day of the course, and it has become popular in the school. "Conservation Biology" is a general course that Professor Lu Zhi of Peking University has been offering to undergraduates, which is an applied discipline that integrates the knowledge of various disciplines and proposes a plan for human beings to cope with the ecological crisis. One of the cases is the Peking University Nature Reserve.
Protecting the nature and biodiversity of Peking University has always been something that some teams at Peking University are doing. Peking University has 206 species of birds, 11 species of mammals, 26 species of fish, 11 species of two climbs, 27 species of butterflies, 26 species of dragonflies, and more than 180 species of plants.
The construction of an overall campus nature reserve with an area of about 42.5 hectares is the first time that it has been proposed. The community covers the waters and forests under the jurisdiction of Peking University's Unnamed Lake District, Spoon Sea, Ximen Yuchi, Minghe Garden, Red Lake, Jingchun Garden, Langrun Garden and Yannan Garden. It is reported that the establishment of the Yanyuan Nature Conservation Community has been included in the school's work agenda, which is the first nature protection community in the country's colleges and universities, and the first nature protection community in Beijing, and will surely become a demonstration case of the fine management of the national protection community.
Grey magpies on the Campus of Peking University
The big spotted woodpecker on the Campus of Peking University
Crows on the Campus of Peking University
Hedgehogs on the Campus of Peking University
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