The red-billed bird, with its long tail, jumps up and down and flies around among the branches on the side of the road in Baiyun Yanshui Park, making a "chirping" sound like a magpie from time to time. Curious citizens found out and solved: so beautiful, what kind of bird is it? Experts call it the red-billed blue magpie, the legendary blue bird, a bird that is good for the ecology.
Strange Baiyun goose water came a few long-tailed red-billed birds.
On February 20, when Ms. Sun, a citizen, went to Baiyun Yanshui Park in Xigang District to play, she saw three or five beautiful birds in the roadside woods opposite the park lake. These red-billed birds, with their long tails, jumped up and down from the branches of the trees, flying around, and occasionally making "chirping" sounds like magpies. "Look, it's the first time I've seen this long-tailed bird. "Fly, fly, and it flew to another tree. At noon that day, these long-tailed birds attracted onlookers from the citizens in the park.
Ms. Sun said that at that time, she was standing opposite the bird across the road, and took a picture of **and** with her mobile phone, and found that its tail was extraordinarily long, the end of the outer tail feathers had black and white wide stripes, the beak and feet were red, and the tail feathers were open when flying, which was very beautiful. "It's the first time I've seen this kind of bird, and there were three or five of them, because they called like magpies, and some said they were magpies, and some people said they were snakes, and I wanted to know what kind of bird it was. It can't be an alien species. Ms. Sun said.
Experts for the red-billed blue magpie are ecologically beneficial.
Gu Guoqiang, executive vice president of the Dalian Wildlife Conservation Association, recognized the bird as a red-billed blue magpie after seeing it. Gu Guoqiang said that the red-billed blue magpie has the cunning and opportunistic nature of crows, and can imitate not only the calls of other birds, but even the shutter sound of a camera.
Gu Guoqiang said that the red-billed blue magpie is a native species, which is distributed in Liaoning, and this bird is not uncommon in Dalian, around 2005, he found it near the Lianhuashan mountain range, and there were five red-billed blue magpies when he found it, and many people did not believe that there was such a bird in Dalian at that time. In recent years, there are more and more birds in Dalian, not only in Lianhua Mountain, but also in Laohutan and Qingyun Linhai communities in Zhongshan District. It belongs to a small population, and there are now more than 100 of them in Dalian. "And, it's an ecologically good bird. Gu Guoqiang said that for the first and second generation larvae of the American white moth that harm trees, the red-billed blue magpie is their "nemesis". The larvae of the American white moth have bristles on their bodies, the bristles are relatively hard and poisonous, the general birds dare not eat it, only the red-billed blue magpie and the gray magpie dare to "mouth" them, these two birds have a way to get rid of the bristles on the larvae of the American white moth, and the young birds of the red-billed blue magpie are out of the shell, mainly catch it to feed. The red-billed blue magpie has made a certain contribution to the ecology of Dalian and is worthy of protection. Know more about the red-billed blue magpie, the mythical blue bird.
According to the data, the red-billed blue magpie is the mythical and legendary blue bird. In the folk tales that have been passed down for thousands of years, the red-billed blue magpie has brought people a beautiful vision. The poet Li Shangyin once wrote in a poem: "There is no way to go to Pengshan, and the blue bird is diligent to visit." ”
The red-billed blue magpie was included in the List of Terrestrial Wild Animals Protected by the State on August 1, 2000 and of Important Economic and Scientific Research Value Protected by the State Forestry Administration.
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