Nicknames: reed strings, croaks, cut reeds
The Book of Verses begins with the words "Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the River Continent." Lady, gentleman is good", this poem about love, people are familiar with this poem, but for the "dove" bird, since ancient times, there have been many opinions, some people say it is an osprey, some people say it is a wild goose, a swan, and there is a saying that it is an oriental reed warbler. According to this, the oriental reed warbler has been a common bird in wetlands since ancient times.
The Oriental Reed Warbler is the summer migratory bird of our city, it is slightly larger, with a significant yellow eyebrow stripe, a small pink mouth is very cute, the call is sharp and crisp, full of rhyme, it is very beautiful, it is a famous singer in the wetland, it likes to fly in the reed fields, rice paddies, swamps and secondary shrublands in the lowlands, and sometimes likes to stand on high branches.
The Great Reed Warbler of the East is an insectivor who cleverly uses several reed poles to build a nest, and the nest mouth is deep cup-shaped upwards, woven from dead reeds and reeds. The female produces eggs in small nests, the newly hatched chicks are featherless, and the work of brooding is shared by the male and female parent birds.
In addition to being associated with beautiful love stories, the Oriental Reed Warbler is also associated with the volunteering of raising other birds. The cunning cuckoo is always accompanied by the oriental reed warbler, and when the other party has built the nest and laid eggs, the cuckoo will choose the opportunity to lay its own eggs and remove the eggs of the oriental reed warbler out of the nest. Cuckoo chicks are born early, and after birth it squeezes other eggs out of their nests, while the Eastern Reed Warbler, unaware, raises this "adopted son", even though it appears that the Eastern Reed Warbler is only half the size of the cuckoo's body.
In addition, the oriental reed warbler is distinguished from the noisy reed warbler in that the eastern reed warbler has a blunt, shorter and thicker mouth, a shorter tail and a lighter tail end, a heavy lower body color and a dark longitudinal stripe on the chest; when held in the hand, it is distinguished by the outer primary flight feathers (the ninth) longer than the sixth, and the mouth crack is pink instead of yellow. The Oriental Reed Warbler differs from the Great Reed Warbler in that the Eastern Reed Warbler is smaller, with shorter projections of primary flight feathers and more longitudinal stripes on the side of the chest.