The bird in the picture below is very common in China, it looks very beautiful, with a fan-shaped crown on the head, orange and brown feathers on the head and neck, and black and white wings and tail feathers, which is more beautiful than most common birds. Jia Island of the Tang Dynasty has a poem praising it saying:
Star dot flower crown Taoist dress, Ziyang palace woman incarnation flying;
Can spread the news of the spring of the upper realm, if you go to Pengshan Mo to return.
Many friends see this bird are very like, know its scientific name is not much, all over the country for this bird's name can not be eight doors, a list of words can be listed at least dozens, such as: flower fan, a fan, fan face, chicken crown bird, mountain monk, nag wooden crown, hu duo, two-headed mule, flower moth moth, grunt brush, grunt wing, bu bu wing, brace- straw, peck rice crown, bag wrapped wings, collapse, stinky eight grunts, yangque mother, slimy paste, paste wave, crash, chisel wood, flower cloth hand towel, stinky baking, pickaxe head, stinky hair , stinky cuckoo, grunt grunt, grunt, pulling baba, bobosa, sheep duck, soul sparrow, coffin bird, stinky oil pot, cow beat, mud drill...
Does the list above also have the common names of your region? It can also be seen from its name that there are names from its appearance, such as flower fan, flower cloth hand towel, pickaxe head, etc.; there are also names produced from its characteristics, such as stinky grunts, mud drills, etc. In fact, the scientific name of this bird is Dai Sheng, China's written language since ancient times is called it, the above Jia Dao's poem about this bird is called "Dai Sheng", the reason why it is called this name is because the feather crown on the head of this bird is very similar to the "Huasheng (also called Caisheng)" on the head worn by people.
The daisy is also the national bird of Israel, which the Israelites consider to be a symbol of beauty, peace, and happiness. So why does it also have a lot of indecent and tasteful names in the common name of our country, such as stinky spots, stinky eight grunts, cheeky grunts, collapse and so on? This is because people have found that the smell of this bird is very smelly. So there is such a phenomenon: anyone who has admired this bird from a distance will like this bird very much, because its appearance is very high; anyone who has been in close contact with this bird, most of them hate this bird, because it is so smelly. Who would have thought that a bird with such a high appearance would actually stink?
Many friends who lived in the countryside when they were young have the experience of catching this kind of bird, and the nest of this bird is usually built in the holes of broken houses, wood, bridge holes, etc., which is relatively easy to dig, but after digging once, you will not want to take a second time, because this bird is too smelly, and when you dig it, you will be swept by it, very disgusting!
The reason for this is that this bird is very sloppy, and there are stink glands, it chooses to brood in the impermeable hole, the bird's bird droppings will never be cleaned up after pulling inside, which makes its nest very smelly, it can be called the "dirty king" in the birds; not only that, there is a stink gland behind the ass of this bird, which can produce a strange smelly mucus, so it is also the "stink king" in birds, if it feels the danger, it will spew out stinky liquid, just like the skunk relies on farting to resist the enemy, when someone digs its nest, What is sprayed on the hand by it is also its stinky liquid.
This bird is also called "coffin bird" or "soul bird" in some places, etc., because this bird sometimes appears in places where there are graves, sometimes it will follow some caves taken out by other animals into the grave, and sometimes it will build nests in the caves and breed chicks, so it has the above two names.
In biology, dai sheng bird in the ornithischia independent order, that is, Dai Sheng order, there are 8 subspecies, this bird is actually widely distributed in Eurasia and northern Africa, the number in our country is very large, usually there are many friends to recognize it as a woodpecker, because the body size and feather color are more similar, but in fact the two are not the same, not only is there a difference without a feather crown, is considered to be the most likely to cause confusion between the two mouth is actually different, the mouth of the woodpecker is straight, it looks very thick, the mouth of the dai sheng bird is curved The beginning and ends have a certain curvature, although it is very long, but it is very thin, and the Daisheng bird does not break the bark like a woodpecker to peck at the insects inside, its most common predation method is to extend its long mouth into a small hole in the ground to catch insects, so it is also called "mud drill", which is why it has evolved a long mouth.
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Do you like this bird? What do you call it there?
Resources:
"Xiaoxiang Morning News" February 23 article "Secret Tongbiguan Nature Reserve| mistaken for woodpecker bird world "strange" - Dai Sheng"