Today's introduction of a new Internet celebrity, have you recently been brushed by this domineering little fat bird who steps on the vole?
This is a bit like a sparrow's little yellow fat chirp, called the big.
Parus major
Passeriformes,,. Small and medium-sized birds with a body length of 13-15 cm. The entire head is black with a large white spot on each side of the head. The upper body is yellow-green. The underparts are yellow , and a broad central longitudinal stripe on the thorax and abdomen is connected to the chin and throat black.
Obviously, it is a small bird about the size of a sparrow, why is it called a large, because it is the largest of the, that is, the largest of all kinds of. Well, it's really not creative.
The great is a common bird throughout Eurasia. There are many large in Xinjiang, which may be one of the most common birds except sparrows, especially in winter, which can often be seen in communities and parks.
At present, there are 3 independent species of large, according to the appearance, the upper body is yellowish green, and the lower body is mostly a large, mainly distributed in the northern part of Eurasia to the northwest of China.
△ This is called far eastern
The upper body is slightly yellowish-green, and the lower body is grayish or yellowish, most of which are far eastern (parus minor), mainly distributed in most of China, Japan and its islands.
The upper body is grayish blue, and the lower body is gray and white, which is mostly parus cinereus, mainly distributed in the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Hainan, China.
There are also more than 30 subspecies of the great. To separate them, leave it to an ornithologist. For ordinary people, the big is a yellow belly, black hat, white face, black scarf, the front looks from the neck to the stomach has a y shape, the call is similar to chirp ~ ~ chirp chirp of the bird... I tried my best, my heart was so tired...
The habits of the great look ordinary: they mainly eat various insects and insect larvae, but also some flowers and grasses. Its powerful beak also opens the shell of the nut and eats the nuts inside.
When encountering other small birds and rodents, the giant will not let go. These days, the picture of the big is from Finland, and netizens have been conquered by its toughness. According to a Finnish news report compiled by The Editor of the Fruit Shell @ent_evo, the scene at that time was like this:
On a cold winter morning in Finland, two embankment voles ran out to feed and bumped into a sparrowhawk that was also coming to feed. Just as the sparrowhawk was getting his hands on it, another magpie came running and also stared at the two prey, so the sparrowhawk and the magpie fought.
During the fight, a live vole fell to the ground, but the two flew away after a while, not noticing it.
Soon, two large ran over, pecked at the voles' heads and began to eat their brains. They have no interest in troublesome, frozen bodies, and after eating their brains, they flap their wings and fly away, leaving no feathers behind.
The melon-eating masses were astonished -- you and you look so cute, how can you be so ???
Ornithologists are very calm: the big is originally known as a brain-eating maniac.
Although the big is small, its temper is not covered. Although they look short-mouthed and petite, they are ferocious predators, and people are accustomed to the beak of nut shells, and it is not a matter of hitting a bone at all. One of its habits is to attack other birds, peck their heads, and eat their brains.
Birds that usually dare to grab food with it are also very courageous, as long as they are about the same size, they are likely to be taken advantage of by the big to eat their brains. Big Tit: Hmmm, good, made a fortune in a fight.
There are the following records of the great tit: the giant chased after the spotted crane, attacked it, and pecked the skull to eat the brain. Pecked at the back of Dai's head and flew away with it, still eating his brain.
Ornithologists have found the skull of the spotted nest bird shattered and died near the Nest of the Great Mountain. More than 10 white-waisted vermilion finches were found dead and their skulls shattered. Do you dare say you didn't do it?
The picture is a bit bloody, ahead warning, the big crime scene:
The giant is also a bird that hunts bats. They will fly into the bat cave while the bat is hibernating, knocking on them one by one... When do you eat cans and win the lottery, eat one can and then another can?
Why do big only eat their brains and not their offal? It may be because its beak is not hook-shaped and is not suitable for tearing the skin and meat, or it may be that it has a limited amount of food and cannot eat so much.
But probably the main reason is that the brain is a fat-rich nutrient tissue, the best source of calories and nutrients. Birds want to maintain a flight life, high-calorie food is their first choice, the brain is higher than the internal organs and meat calories, and it is easy to eat and easy to digest, big tit: my favorite!
Surveillance video captures a dynamic crime scene, with the victim bird again being the poor vermilion bird.
The big is more aggressive, even if it is caught, it will take a bite in your hand. But don't grab it, let it jump freely on the branches, it is a bird that is beneficial to the nature of the garden.
Thinking about the ferocious habit of this brain-eater, fortunately, the big is a small bird, if it is the size of an eagle or even an albatross, I am afraid it is the turn of us humans to wear a steel helmet when we go out...
There is an interesting study that says that the giant also has a parasitic behavior similar to the cuckoo's incubation, which is to lay its own eggs into other nests. But they are not the same as the cuckoo.
When the big can't find a place to nest, they will run to attack the blue, take them away, and live in the nest of the blue themselves. After the melee, some blue would come back and secretly lay their eggs into the nest of the big. And the big will also secretly lay their eggs into the unoccupied Blue Mountain Nest. Both parents will not recognize the impostors in the child and will raise them.
△ Blue
The blue raised by the big, although they initially think they are big, eventually leave and fly to the blue population. But the big raised by the blue will think of themselves as blue for the rest of their lives.
It's not clear why the big can't wake up, but this may be nature's compensation for the blue. Blue are small, and with their adoptive parents, they compete with other big pups and can easily die early.
Resources
Field Manual of Chinese Birds
The War of the Great and Blue
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