Chapter 10025: Shiratori Lake (1/2)
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Suddenly, everyone heard the chicks of chicks in the nest of golden eagles on the cliff.
"It's a bird, ah! no, it's an eagle!!"
These experts were overjoyed, they didn't expect to find young eagles here, which shows that there is more than one golden eagle in Eagle Rock, at least two adult golden eagles, and a few newborn baby golden eagles.
This is amazing, everyone actually found a family of golden eagles, but now it seems that the golden eagle that was injured just now should be a female eagle, and the male golden eagle is not there, so it is estimated that he went out to forage for food.
Sure enough, after about half an hour of observation under the cliff, a larger golden eagle finally flew back to the nest.
You can still vaguely see that it is still clutching a lump of minced flesh under its claws, presumably torn from the body of the prey it has just killed.
However, with the return of the male golden eagle, it seems that it also noticed that the female eagle was injured, and after some chattering exchanges, the male eagle immediately became furious after figuring out the situation.
Swooping down the cliff and flying straight for the sparrowhawk not far away.
However, the sparrowhawk did not show weakness, and immediately rose into the air, soaring into the sky, and in an instant, an eagle and an eagle kept intertwining and flying in the sky, and a big war was about to begin.
"Can Xiao Feng stop them??" Professor Zhou asked Zhang Feng with a worried expression.
Zhang Feng shook his head helplessly: "It shouldn't work, one mountain can't tolerate two tigers, even if I let the little bird leave now, the golden eagle probably won't give up!"
Seeing that Professor Zhou's brows were furrowed even more, Zhang Feng hurriedly comforted: "Professor Zhou, don't worry, my little finch is very measured, it shouldn't hurt the golden eagle too much, and I am still here!"
"Okay then!!" Professor Zhou nodded helplessly, thinking that this was the only way!!
Just when the two birds of prey were about to go to war.
Suddenly there was a rush of shouts from the cliff.
When the male golden eagle heard this, he forgot about it on the cliff, looked at the sparrowhawk on the side, hesitated for a while, and then flew back to the nest decisively.
The sparrowhawk had a gentle personality, and when it saw the golden eagle leaving, it immediately flew back, and stood obediently on the branches, combing its feathers, and did not feel nervous about the battle just now.
Seeing this, everyone below breathed a sigh of relief, it's good that the big battle didn't break out, otherwise it would not be good if this male golden eagle was injured.
"Looks like the female golden eagle from earlier stopped it!"
"Tut-tut, I didn't expect this female golden eagle to be so smart, knowing that her husband couldn't beat it eight or nine times out of ten, so she quickly called the male golden eagle back!"
Seeing the female bird on the cliff calling the male bird back, everyone couldn't help but be amazed, I didn't expect the animal to have such wisdom, knowing that it would not be able to beat it, it would immediately admit it, and being able to bend and stretch is indeed one of the survival rules of the animal world.
Due to time constraints, everyone spent the morning observing Eagle Rock and then left, continuing to other places.
"Master Ranshan, is Shiratori Lake about to arrive??"
At three o'clock in the afternoon, everyone had been shuttling in the mountains and mountains for more than two hours, and they were so tired that they couldn't hold on.
"Hehe, it's going to be soon, you can arrive in half an hour at most!" Ranshan Ye smiled and encouraged everyone to arrive.
"Half an hour!" Hearing that there was still half an hour, the experts gritted their teeth and continued to insist.
At this time, Zhang Feng not only carried everyone's tent on his shoulders, but also the luggage of several old professors, which were more than three meters long and the cedar flat pole with the thickness of the bowl mouth was crunched.
In this way, the things on his shoulders weighed three or four hundred pounds, but at this time, everyone was numb, and he was no longer as shocked as he was at the beginning, and his innate divine power had become everyone's first influence on him.
"Xiao Feng, if only I had as much strength as you!" A mountain patrol member was sweating profusely with a bag of seventy or eighty pounds, and then looked at Zhang Feng's relaxed and comfortable expression, and suddenly shook his head.
"It's innate, and I can't help it!" Zhang Feng replied with a smile.
"Okay, Xiao Wang, you haven't graduated from elementary school, even if someone Xiaofeng has the strength of you, what can you do, it's not the life of moving bricks??"
"Alas, that's right, we just suffered the loss of no culture, it seems that we can only sell coolies in this life!!" Xiao Wang shook his head with a wry smile.
Everyone joked with each other, chatting while walking, but it was not so dull, and before they knew it, they finally came to Shiratori Lake.
Shiratori Lake, as the name suggests, is a gathering place for wild and small birds in Qinglong Mountain because of the flocks of birds here.
When everyone came to Shiratori Lake, they saw a mighty lake appear in front of everyone.
At this time, although it is winter, the reeds in Shiratori Lake are still thick, the water and grass are abundant, and the reeds in the lake are full of nests of birds.
Hundreds of birds are flying in the sky, and on the wetlands by the lake, birds are scratching on the ground, looking for delicious food.
White waterfowl, black geese, and countless other birds that you don't know all gather here to spend the cold winter in this beautiful lake.
"Ah!!Look at the red-crowned cranes, there are a lot of red-crowned cranes over there!!"
"Wow, what is that? Is that a crested ibis?? I didn't expect there to be a crested ibis!!"
The experts were all stunned, they didn't expect that there was such a place in the depths of this primeval forest.
Not to mention geese and red-crowned cranes, although they are also very rare, they are not so precious compared to the endangered crested ibis.
Crested ibis!!
It was a rare bird that was almost extinct.
The crested ibis was called the crested ibis and the red crested ibis in ancient times, and the crested ibis is endemic to East Asia. Medium-sized, with white feathers, a long willow-shaped crest on the hind occipital, bare and bright red skin from the forehead to the cheeks, and a gray-black color is applied to the head, neck, upper back, and wings during the breeding season.
The crested ibis mainly inhabits the sparse forest area at an altitude of 1200-1400 meters, wading in nearby streams, swamps and rice fields, wandering and feeding on small fish, crabs, frogs, snails and other aquatic animals, and also eating insects;
Rest and stay overnight on tall trees, resident birds, in autumn and winter, small flocks to the low mountains and plains for a small area, start nesting in April and May, breed a nest every year, each nest lays 2-4 eggs, hatched and brooded by both parents, the incubation period is about 30 days, 40 days out of the nest, sexual maturity is 3 years old, and the longest life span is 37 years.
It was widely distributed in East Asia, but due to environmental degradation and other factors, the population declined sharply, to the 80s of the 20th century, only in the southern foothills of the Qinling Mountains in Hanzhongyang County, in the southern part of Shaanxi Province, China, there were only 7 wild populations, and then after artificial breeding, the population has reached more than 2,000 (2014), of which the wild population exceeded more than 1,500, and the distribution area of the crested ibis has expanded from southern Shaanxi to Nanhe, East China and other places.