Chapter Eighty-Four: Peregrine Falcons

The little eagle flapped its wings and landed lightly on Li Junge's arm.

Li Junge thought about it, took a fish from the small lake, held it in his hand, and said to Xiaoying: "Do you eat fish?"

Kitty seemed to like the space fish very much, and immediately took it and ate it.

But no consciousness came to me.

Seeing that the little eagle liked to eat so much, Li Junge took a few more pictures of it, and suddenly thought of a question: "Why don't the fish in this space transmit consciousness?"

However, thinking of the poor brain of the fish, Li Junge was also relieved.

With a thought, he sent the subordinate dogs to the space.

Sure enough, as soon as the subordinate dogs came in and saw Li Junge, they came with a consciousness similar to "Dad".

Then it was "eat, eat, eat", and a group of subordinate dogs pounced on Lingquan.

"Ouch, it's not good", Li Junge hurried over, but saw that they could only drink water and flutter on the water's edge, wanting to catch betta fish, but they couldn't enter the spiritual spring, but were blocked by an invisible aura.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's a false alarm. Then it occurred to me that I could actually stop them with teleportation.

The subordinate dogs each drank some spiritual spring water, and they were still fluttering there, as if they were unwilling to catch the fish.

"Since you want to eat fish so much, let's have a good time today. Taking out some fish from the spiritual spring for the subordinate dogs to eat, Li Junge thought: "It seems that the spiritual spring in this space and the fish in it attract animals very much." It is estimated that this eaglet was also attracted by the chicks who had stayed in the space. ”

Thinking of the chickens, Li Junge remembered again, the chickens, ducklings, and some birds in the space did not have this kind of reaction, and it seemed that they still had to be more spiritual animals to transmit consciousness in the space.

Convey the consciousness to the subordinate dogs: "You can't flutter around in Lingquan, fortunately you can't get in, otherwise you will be an old dog when you come out." ”

The subordinate dogs didn't have the consciousness to pass it back again, but they seemed to understand, and the puppies with their butts towards Lingquan were all transferred to Li Junge's body.

"Damn, this doesn't seem to be working. Thinking like this, Li Junge waited until the subordinate dogs were full and the little eagle recovered, and then took them out of the space.

The subordinate dogs circled around Li Junge, and their expressions became more intimate.

Li Junge picked up the eaglet and said, "Go, remember not to catch my chickens in the future!" After speaking, he threw it into the air, and the eaglet flapped its wings away.

Back in the forest to collect the net, there was still a half-dead little rooster hanging there, Li Junge conditioned its feathers, fed it some spiritual spring water, and saw that it was okay, before putting it back into the chicken farm.

When he was free in the evening, Li Junge searched for information about the eaglet on the Internet and found that the little eagle he met today turned out to be not an eagle, but a peregrine falcon.

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.

Peregrine falcon, a medium-sized bird of prey, has a total of 18 subspecies. The body length is 41~50 cm. The wings are long and pointed, the eyes are yellow, the cheeks have a thick black mustache that goes vertically downward, the head to the back of the neck is grayish-black, and the rest of the upper body is blue-gray, and the tail has several black transverse bands.

The lower body is white, with fine black spots on the upper thorax, and the lower thorax to the lower tail are densely covered with black transverse spots.

When flying, the underwing and tail are white, densely covered with white transverse bands, often interspersed with gliding when the wings are flying, and often soaring in the air, which is easy to identify in the wild.

Peregrine falcons inhabit mainly mountainous areas, hills, semi-deserts, swamps and coastal areas of lakes, but also move around open farmland, cultivated land and villages. It is widely distributed and can be found almost everywhere in the world.

Peregrine falcons are partly resident birds and partly migratory birds. There are also those who wander around after the breeding season.

A total of 18 subspecies were differentiated, and 4 subspecies were distributed in China.

Common subspecies is rare, summer migratory birds in Heilongjiang and Jilin, traveling birds in Liaoning, Beijing, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Shanxi, and winter migratory birds in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Taiwan, Guangdong and Guangxi.

The Xinjiang subspecies is extremely rare and is only found in Xinjiang as a breeding bird.

The southern subspecies is also extremely rare, with a migratory bird in Shanghai, Qinghai and Ningxia, a winter migratory bird in Guizhou and Yunnan, and an occasional lost bird in other regions.

The Oriental subspecies is extremely rare, only recorded in Jinyun, Zhejiang, as a winter migratory bird, and this subspecies may also be produced in Taiwan.

After reading this, Li Junge thought: "It seems that this peregrine falcon should be the southern subspecies, and it is still a lost bird." ”

Then let's look at the habits of peregrine falcons.

Peregrine falcons fly quickly. Move more alone and scream sharply.

It is usually accompanied by a burst of gliding when flying with fast wings, and also likes to soar through the air.

It mainly preys on small and medium-sized birds such as mallards, gulls, doves, crows and chickens, and occasionally small mammals such as rats and hares.

It has a fierce temperament, and even golden eagles and falcons, which are much larger than its size, dare to attack.

Because it hunts mainly in the air, it needs to be faster than other birds of prey, so it has a relatively large body weight, narrow wings that reduce drag, and relatively short tail feathers like high-speed airplanes.

Most of the time, they fly in the air to hunt, and when they find their prey, they first quickly rise to a high altitude to occupy the commanding heights, and then separate their wings so that the flight feathers on the wings are parallel to the longitudinal axis of the body, and the head shrinks to the shoulders, and pounces down on the prey at a speed of 75-100 meters per second, at an angle of 25 degrees.

When approaching the prey, open the wings slightly, bite through the vital part of the back occipital part of the prey with a sharp mouth, and hit the hind toe at the same time, so that the prey is injured and loses the ability to fly, and when the prey falls, then quickly rush to the prey, grab the prey with sharp claws, all this is as fast and accurate as using an electronic computer control.

Finally, it takes its prey to a more secluded place, holds it down with its feet, peels off its feathers with its beak, and then tears it into small pieces and devours it. Sometimes they also hunt on the ground. Adapting to this pattern of predation, its tarsal plantar becomes short and stout, and the toes that grasp its prey become thin and long.

The peregrine falcon is also the national bird of the United Arab Emirates and Angola.

"Damn! This guy is so violent, 100 meters per second, 360 kilometers per hour! This is the speed of a Ferrari, right? And even a golden eagle dares to scare him!"

Li Junge picked at the core of his head, feeling that he seemed too bold to bully it like that during the day.

After clearing the space, Li Junge went to sleep.

Early the next morning, Li Junge was woken up by the babies: "Uncle Erpi, Uncle Erpi! There is an eagle on the roof of our house!"

Li Junge got up and walked to the open dam to look at the roof of the pigsty house, and the peregrine falcon yesterday had returned, looking left and right on the roof, and was still holding a pheasant at his feet.

Seeing Li Junge come out, the peregrine falcon grabbed the pheasant and flew down, threw the pheasant at Li Junge's feet, and was about to stop, when he suddenly found that the subordinate dog, which was secretly forming an encirclement around him, flew back to the roof with a loud cry.

"Stop it for me!" Li Junge hurriedly stopped the dogs: "People only met yesterday, and today they all know that gifts have come to the door! You have been at home for so long, what have you been doing all day long?! Besides, you dare to provoke other people's national second-class protected animals?!"

A group of puppies hung their heads, and they were probably still muttering in their hearts, Dad, you are so busy all day, you don't take us into the mountains, we have caught all the mice in the house, what are you going to do!

When he went to the house, he took out a pair of felt pads that were used to carry the burden and tied them to his shoulders, Li Junge picked up a copy net and shouted to the peregrine falcon: "Little thing, come down." ”

The peregrine falcon flew down in response and landed on Li Junge's shoulder.

A group of babies were happily preparing to come over to watch, and Li Junge shouted: "Don't be busy! Don't come here yet, don't scare it!"

A person carried a bucket to the fish pond, Li Junge put the net into the small cage where the fish was kept in the lobby and pretended to copy it a few times, but in fact, he got some fish out of the space, put them on the grass and said to the peregrine falcon: "Come, eat." ”

The peregrine falcon happily jumped down and began to eat the fish.

The subordinate dogs are watching from a distance, little traitors! Scheming ghosts! You know how to please your father! Another day, your father will not want you to look good!

Seeing that the peregrine falcon was satisfied with eating a few fish, Li Junge put it on his shoulder again, and took the subordinate dog to find Uncle Orion, and he had to ask him about it.

When they came to Uncle Orion's house, Uncle Orion and Aunt Miao Wa were about to go out to harvest grain, when they saw Li Junge coming over with a bird, Uncle Orion was surprised: "Ouch, this is a rare thing! What about the falcon! You dare to buy this thing? ”

Li Junge rolled his eyes and said: "I don't have the guts, it came to my house to steal chickens by itself, and I caught it and cleaned it up, so it depends on me." ”

Uncle Orion said: "And this kind of good thing? The wild falcon recognized the lord without training? How could you encounter such a good thing!"

Li Junge pretended to be angry and said, "You're just jealous! I haven't trained these subordinate dogs well!"

Miao Wa also picked at the core of her head and said, "I don't know where your strange skills come from." Forget it, anyway, there are a lot of strange things about the Li family in the river. Since it's not bought or caught, it's easy to do, so let's train it well, this thing is very good at catching chickens and rabbits!"

Li Junge laughed and said, "No need to train yourself! I cleaned up yesterday, and I caught a pheasant for me this morning and brought it over." ”

Now Miao Wa was so jealous that her eyes were almost red.

Uncle Orion was also full of envy, and said: "I have never seen such a spiritual falcon, this is the recognition of the master! In the early years, it had to be boiled for a while, and when it was tamed, it had to be prevented from running, and a bell was hung on its body, and it was not easy to find it when it was released. You don't have to worry about this, but at least you need to get an eagle platform, so you can have a place to rest. Forget it, I guess you're also blinded by telling you, so I'll get it for you!"

Li Junge smiled so much that he couldn't see his eyebrows, and he was still there to fake politeness: "Ouch, why are you embarrassed to trouble you, you still harvest grain, or you tell me what you need, I'll buy it online!"

Uncle Orion was so angry that he said: "In the past, the hound falcon was the half-life of the mountain runner! You just fooled it like this? I don't understand how these guys recognized you! Could it be that this is the lack of heart eye meets the lack of heart eye? Get out of here, I see that Lao Tzu is angry!"