The picture shows the cute white-browed harrier.
Yangzi Evening News Network April 25 (correspondent Wu Jiamin reporter Mei Jianming) On the morning of April 25, in the trees of Nanjing's Purple Mountain, only dozens of bird lovers and bird guards were seen using long guns and short cannons to focus on flying white-browed birds.
The feathers of this white-browed bird are bright yellow and very beautiful, and its beautiful song is gentle and melodious, flapping its wings, allowing the camera of the person taking pictures next to it to shoot like a machine gun " da da da da" strafing, not timid at all.
According to a bird-shooting enthusiast in Nanjing, the male bird of the white-browed bird is commonly known as duck egg yolk. The plumage is gorgeous, the song is gentle and melodious, all feed on insects, and it is a beneficial bird in the forest. It is of great significance in forest protection, and it is also a very rare bird in the city of Nanjing, and it has also become a bird-loving weekly net red bird.
This white-browed bird that flew to Purple Mountain is 11 to 14 centimeters long. According to reports, the male bird of this bird, most of the upper body is black, the eyebrow stripe is white, and it is extremely eye-catching on the black head. The waist is bright yellow , the wings and tail are black , and the wings are covered with white spots. Its lower body is bright yellow. They inhabit broad-leaved and mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests in low hills and foothills below 1200 m above sea level. It is often active alone or in pairs, mostly in the lower branches of the canopy and foraging, and often flies into the air to prey on flying insects. The main food is coleopterae insects such as tianniu family, adults of the genus Tianniu, kowtows, ladybirds, weevils, goldenrods and other coleoptera insects.
It is reported that the white-browed eagle breeds in Siberia, northeast China, North Korea and other places, winters in Southeast Asia, and belongs to the transit bird in Nanjing. With the continuous improvement of Nanjing's ecological environment, new bird species are also increasing.
Proofread by Faye Wong
Source: Purple Cow News