Author/Chen Shengli
Purple howling bird, also known as chirping chicken, black spirit. The plumage is dark blue-purple , with bright purple drip spots at the apex , and black beaks and feet.
Purple Howling (Figure 1)
The bird is black from a distance and purple at close range, inhabiting the rocks of rocky mountain streams, often moving in pairs, often chasing each other in the bushes, flying and singing, and the sound is loud and short like the sound of a piano. Feeds on the ground or in shallow water, feeding on insects and crabs, as well as berries and other plants.
Purple Howling (Figure 2)
Purple howling is widely distributed, the population is relatively rich, not close to the fragile endangerment threshold standard for species survival (distribution area or fluctuation range is less than 20,000 square kilometers, habitat quality, population size, distribution area fragmentation), population trend is stable, so it is evaluated as a species without survival crisis.
Purple HowlingBird (Figure 3)
Individual or paired events. Ground habitat, often jumping between rocks or rocks by the stream or flying up and down, sometimes into the garden near the village or in the scrub near the ground, sexual lively and alert. When moving on the ground, it is mainly jumping forward, and the tail feathers are often scattered and swinging up and down, and sometimes swinging left and right.
Purple HowlingBird (Figure 4)
Foraging on the ground and in shallow waters near the water's edge. Good singing, the male birds during the breeding period are very beautiful. During the breeding season, the song is crisp and high-pitched, varied and full of rhyme, and its sound is quite like a whistle, which is very beautiful. When the alarm is alarmed, a sharp high-pitched eer-ee-ee is emitted, like a swallowtail, and when frightened, it flees to the cover and emits a sharp alarm call.
Purple HowlingBird (Figure 5)
Speaking of the purple dove this animal. So is the purple dove a nationally protected animal? In fact, the purple dove is not a nationally protected animal. Its population is relatively large, there is no endangered problem, and it is a non-crisis animal.