Hu Xiang naturally | wearing a "winning" guy, so smelly and so beautiful
Sunday, August 15, 2021 The 9th day of autumn
Dai Sheng, as the name suggests, wears a "win".
"Sheng" refers to a kind of gorgeous headdress for ancient women, also known as "Huasheng".
The brown-red crown feathers on the top of Dai Sheng's head are usually folded, like a small back, and there is nothing special about it. When frightened, excited or courteous, the feathers on the top of the head will "rattl" up, like a vertical upright fan, waving in the wind, colorful.
The ancients believed that this look was very similar to the appearance of a woman wearing Huasheng, and the name Daisheng came from this.
There are few combinations of this kinship structure in animal names, and it is not at all clear in the name which bird it belongs to. In fact, this is also excusable, because Dai Sheng is so unique that he almost becomes a family of his own, and there are no relatives who can be compared with it. In the classification of Chinese animals, it is also a bird dominating a family, called Dai Sheng family.
Dai Sheng loves "stinky beauty", but this "stinky beauty" is smelly and beautiful.
Dai Sheng, who has a bright appearance, emits a stinky smell all over his body, and even the bird eggs and nests are stinky and baked. Because of its "grunting" call, it is also nicknamed "Stinky Aunt".
Where does this stink come from?
It turned out that Dai Sheng did not pay much attention to personal hygiene. Especially during the breeding season, during the incubation of eggs in the nest, the female bird does not leave the nest at all, eating and drinking Lasa are solved in the nest, and the nest is dirty and smelly. Not only that, but the female will also secrete a foul-smelling grease that stinks in the nest, and it will also spread the grease evenly on the eggs.
Don't underestimate these smells, but they have a big use.
Dai Sheng's flight speed is not prominent, his figure is relatively thin, if he relies on the usual means of attack to protect himself, it is basically the meat on the chopping board, which can be grasped by others.
With this smell, the enemy can not avoid it, and the bird eggs can also reduce the breeding of bacteria and improve the success rate of hatching.
Dai Sheng has a slender mouth and often pecks everywhere, and many people see it and always mistake it for a woodpecker. It is true that Dai Sheng's way of foraging is to dig out the bugs through continuous pecking, but the object of pecking is usually not the trunk, but the soil floor.
Dai Sheng feeds on insects, and most of the insects it pecks at are pests such as golden needle worms, caddisflies, marching insects, walking insects and Tianniu larvae, accounting for about 88% of its total food, which plays a relatively important role in protecting forests and farmland.
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Dai Sheng, a bird of the order Dai Sheng family, is also known as the flower fan, the cockscomb bird, and the stinky partridge. The crown of feathers on the top of the head is long, broad and fan-shaped. It is brownish red or sand-pink in color with black and white secondary spots. The sides of the head and back of the neck are light brown, and the upper back and shoulders are grayish brown. The lower back is black with broad transverse spots of pale brownish white.
Its natural habitats are open areas such as mountains, plains, forests, forest edges, roadsides, river valleys, farmland, grasslands, village tuns and orchards, especially in forest edge arable land habitats. The breeding season is from May to June, and nests are laid in natural tree holes and hollowed-out borer tree holes by woodpeckers, and sometimes nestled in rock crevices, embankment pits, and broken wall ruins. 5-9 eggs are laid per clutch.
It is mainly distributed in Europe, Asia and North Africa. It is widely distributed in China, with summer migratory birds in the areas north of the Yangtze River and resident birds in the areas south of the Yangtze River.
Text/Peng Kexin Zhao Hitomi Iridium Photo/Zhang Jingming Design/Yuan Xiangqun Think Tank/Zhang Zhiqiang Gan Huiting Coordinator/Zhou Yuegui Special Support/Hunan Forestry Bureau
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[Source: Hunan Daily· New Hunan Client]