Birds mostly like to live between the mountains and fields, the rarer the birds are farther away from the human gathering area, but recently a grandmother in Shanghai picked up a rare bird in the park, this bird has a variety of colors, and the color is very bright, come and see:
This bird is not large, the head and tail are about 20 cm long, the head is brown, there is a dark stripe in the middle, a white stripe below, the cheeks and eyes are black backwards, the neck is white, the wings are blue-blue, and it can also shine with metallic luster, the outer edge feathers are black when spreading their wings, the lower part of the neck is light cyan, the abdomen is white, and there is a vertical bright red stripe from the back of the abdomen to the tail, and it is very thick, as if the brush is stained with red ink on it, the short tail, with a slight black and red feather on it, The beak is jet black.
This grandmother is in Shanghai Baoshan District Sitang Park when playing to see this bird, it seems that the bird is not in good condition, close to it is not how to fly, grandma held it in her hand and asked others do not know what bird, and then brought the bird home, her granddaughter thinks it is likely to be a protected animal, so through 110 contacted the wildlife protection station, the staff identified it as a fairy eight colored bird, it is indeed a national second-level protected animal, it is said that there are only about 10,000 birds in the world, which has been identified as a global vulnerable bird.
Fairy eight-colored plover is a bird of the genus ⇒ eight-colored thrush in the family ⇒ the order Finches, named after the feathers of 8 colors on the body surface, which have two subspecies in China, but the difference is not large, and the color of the male and female birds is not much different, because of the beautiful color and elegant posture, this bird is also often called "fairy in the bird", "bird in the West Shi" or "bird in the beauty".
Xianba colored partridge is alert, the place of survival is usually more hidden, usually in the mountains and trees more places, encounter danger will quickly fly away, although it will fly but fly slower, most of the time on the ground activities, mainly to the underground earthworms, centipedes, crickets and grasshoppers on the ground for food, life habits similar to quails, bamboo chickens, etc., the difference is that the fairy eight colored partridge is a migratory bird, spring and summer season to the middle and high latitudes, autumn and winter will fly to low latitudes and warm places, and it also belongs to the traveling birds, Usually does not move in a fixed place for a long time.
In China, this bird is also very rare, ornithologists believe that the number of this bird in our country is about 100-1000 breeding pairs, that is to say, the number of about 200 to 2000, China's Yangtze River Delta region is its breeding ground, so most of them are concentrated here, before there are records found in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and other places, and this bird likes to act alone, which may also be the reason why Grandma only saw one, but the single action also makes the survival and reproduction ability of this bird poor, so its number is not much Its protection is also particularly important.
After being inspected by the local wildlife protection department, the Xianba colored bird picked up by Shanghai Grandma found that the Xianba colored bird was a female bird, and its body surface was not scarred, the vitality was not strong or hungry and other reasons, and the staff took it back to the Yebao Station and released it into nature after its recovery.
Resources:
"Xinmin Evening News" September 24 article "Grandma visited the park to pick up a colorful bird, only 10,000 in the world"