Tianshan Network News (text/reporter Zhao Mei photo/correspondent Tong Lighting) has a "zebra" pattern on the face, but the neck is chestnut red, which member of the water bird family is this? Recently, Xinjiang Bird Friends Lighting photographed such a rare water bird in the Yili River near Yining City, and later confirmed by the Xinjiang Bird Watching Association that this water bird is a juvenile bird of the national second-level key protected animal red-necked 䴘䴘 tī].
According to Tong Lighting, this red-necked young bird was photographed by him on August 30, and at 7 o'clock on the same day, when he was photographing birds in the Ili River, he found a young bird with a spotted face in several crested ibises, "I thought it was a young bird of crested ibis, but if you look closely, the neck has a different chestnut red color from the crested ibis cub." Tong said that he also found that the young bird was always expelled or chased by the adult crested ibis, which further concluded that it should not be a descendant of the crested crest. After taking a picture of the bird with his camera, he sent it to the WeChat group of the Xinjiang Bird Watching Association to inquire, and after the senior bird friends of the Xinjiang Bird Watching Association identified it as a rare bird with a red neck in China.
The red-necked beak is short and thick, and the plumage is different in summer and winter, and the feathers on both sides of the head are elongated and slightly protruding in summer, forming black crown feathers, the top of the head is also black, the cheeks and throat are grayish white, and the front neck, neck side and upper chest are chestnut red, which is a migratory bird. It is extremely rare in number in our country.
According to Gou Jun, president of the Xinjiang Bird Watching Association, the red-necked bird watcher can only be seen occasionally during the migration season, and has only been recorded a few times in Xinjiang for more than a decade.
According to the data, the autumn migration of the red-necked mangosteen is from late September to early October. Ma Ming, a researcher at the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a well-known ornithologist, analyzed that at the end of August, before the collective migration season of the Khun Family, the young birds of the red-necked lynx appeared in Ili, which may be related to the hot climate this summer. ”
It is understood that there are 5 species of birds in Xinjiang: crested, black-necked, small, and red-necked. They are good at diving, not good at walking and flying, and the young birds have more similarities, and they like to eat small fish, crustaceans, aquatic insects, molluscs, aquatic plants and so on.
The "home" of the bird is more unique in the waterbird family, during breeding, they will build the nest in the reeds, grass and other aquatic plants, with reed leaves or grass leaves to closely connect the nest and surrounding plants, to prevent nesting in the water with the waves, once encountered danger, they will quickly cover the nest with water, hide nearby observation, until the danger disappears, will return to the nest.