Recently, the green-breasted eight-colored thrush, a national second-class protected bird, was discovered for the first time in Lushui, and according to experts, this is the green-breasted eight-colored thrush that has been recorded living in the northernmost area of Yunnan.
On the morning of April 30, the sky was still raining, Duan Huiyuan, an employee of the Lushui City Emergency Management Bureau, had just arrived at the unit and found a beautiful bird squatting under the office building, it was dying, its feathers were wet by the rain, and it was trembling slightly, Duan Huiyuan and her colleagues immediately took it to the office for treatment.
"We wiped the water on its body and found that its feathers were very beautiful, and after searching on the Internet, we found that it was originally a national second-class protected animal - the green-breasted eight-colored thrush, which is currently scarce." Duan Huiyuan said.
After discovering the "precious identity" of this bird, the Lushui City Emergency Management Bureau attached great importance to it, and Deputy Director Ou Lingjun quickly and carefully sent it to the Lushui Management and Protection Branch of Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve for treatment.
Staff from the Lushui Management and Protection Bureau carefully examined the green-breasted eight-colored thrush and sought treatment from Wu Fei, an associate researcher at the Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who is engaged in bird research.
"There are no obvious wounds on its body, and it is suspected that it may have suffered serious internal injuries from hitting the window glass, and the expert's opinion is to feed it sugar water and bugs first, so that it can recover its strength first. After we fed it, it ate too, became active, and was able to beat, and we were very happy. Our staff took good care of it, but I didn't expect it to leave this world in the early morning of May 2. Wang Bin, head of the science popularization and education unit of the Lushui Management and Protection Branch of Gaoligong Mountain National Nature Reserve, said.
Wu Fei, an associate researcher at the Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who specializes in bird research, rushed to hear the news. He said he would bring the green-breasted eight-colored thrush back to the institute for analysis of its DNA. It is also made into specimens for long-term preservation, which provides valuable physical materials for subsequent research.
"The green-breasted thrush usually lives in tropical rainforests, such as the Yingjiang and Ruili areas of Dehong Prefecture, and there have been no records of this type of bird living in northern areas in Yunnan before, but in recent years we have also found other tropical birds migrating north along the warm Nu River Valley, which also shows that the ecology of the Nu River Valley is getting better and better." Wu Fei, associate researcher of Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced.
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The green-breasted eight-colored thrush has a black head, a green upper body, blue wings with white markings, a dark brown crown to the back of the head, apple green on the chest and abdomen, and bright red on the buttocks. They move at the bottom of the forest, digging through leaves and rotten trees in search of invertebrates for food. It is a fully migratory bird found in Brunei, Bhutan, China, Nepal, Singapore and Cambodia. Habitats include subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, arable land, plantations, swamp forests, mangroves, country gardens. Feed on insects and their larvae and berries on the ground.
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