Scientists are busy studying birds, so Xu Zhen can only skip dinner, and the whole family eats some of them!

Carrying a long wooden ladder, Xu Zhen carried the night vision goggles up the mountain. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The little girl was clamoring to go, but how could Xu Zhen let her go, it was so dangerous this night, the little girl pouted and didn't want to!

It was late at night, and Xu Zhen placed the ladder under the tall cypress tree.

One of the advantages of cypress trees over other trees is that they are full of branches and branches, making it relatively easy to climb! Like eucalyptus, birch, and plane trees, the long trunks under the trees have no branches, and it is much more difficult to climb up.

Although Xu Zhen didn't feel that he was as light as a swallow, he still climbed to the top of the tree trunk, and when he looked up, he could see the bird's nest.

He climbed very slowly, for fear of startling the black ibis!

However, the higher you go, the thinner the trunk becomes, swaying slightly in the evening breeze, which adds some concealment to Xu Zhen's climbing, but also increases the difficulty!

He had to keep himself safe first!

Zhang He told him earlier that many of these birds are blind at night, and even their hearing has been attenuated, so it is actually very easy to catch them!

Tang Xin had already seen Xu Zhen on the tree through the night vision binoculars in the distance, looking at such a small trunk, Tang Xin's heart was hanging!

"Whew! Whew! ”

Xu Zhen looked at the nest on the top of the tree, and a feeling of helplessness was born in his heart, he didn't dare to climb up anymore! But just as he was preparing the second plan, using an injection pistol to inject the bird with an anesthetic needle, he heard the bird's unique call. Apparently the message of his climb of the tree had alarmed the bird.

With a flutter, the bird soared into the air, and then, probably because it was not very visible in the darkness, stopped at the tip of a nearby tree.

"If you can't catch it, come down first, and find a way tomorrow!" Of course, Zhang He also heard the birds.

In fact, if Xu Zhen was good enough, he would be able to shoot directly at this time, but if this medicine was shot directly, the bird would fall to the ground and might fall to his death, so he didn't dare to shoot rashly! Besides, his accuracy is not enough to pass! That's a bit of a waste of anesthetic needles.

Helpless, Xu Zhen had to give up.

A busy night of work in vain!

Because it is a nest in a tall tree, it is not easy to observe, so Zhang He plans to go home and eat something and then come back to see if there is a better way to observe!

"Uncle, didn't you catch it?" Li Xiaole saw that his uncle came back dejectedly, and he knew that he must have not caught it.

On the dinner table.

"Professor Zhang, is this black ibis a male female?"

"It's a female black ibis!"

"It's not breeding time, is it?" Xu Zhen knew with little knowledge of birds that most birds would not breed in winter!

Zhang He knew that Xu Zhen didn't know much about birds, so he took the trouble to explain some knowledge of ornithology to Xu Zhen and Li Xiaole.

"The black ibis is a national first-class protected endangered species, and it has not been observed in the wild in our Sanchuan province for many years! As for why this female black ibis is here, I haven't come to a conclusion yet! There are only a few hundred black ibises in the wild in the world! In addition, there are only more than 1,000 animals raised in captivity in zoos around the world. It's precious! The black ibis generally breeds in the summer, that is, from May to August, and some black ibises will migrate, but they were originally resident birds in our Sanchuan Province! ”

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Xu Zhen was fine at night, so he followed the two experts to climb the mountain! After all, people are guests, and they are sleeping at home, and it is not good to cool the two of them in the mountains.

It's really cold outdoors this winter, and besides, at night, this black ibis has already rested, so it's not good to observe it closely.

At ten o'clock in the evening, everyone returned home.

For Xu Zhen's enthusiastic help with food and accommodation, Zhang He expressed his gratitude!

Xu Zhen's house is a three-story building, the third floor is generally used to pile up sundries, parents and grandmother sleep on the first floor, Xu Zhen and his sister are on the second floor, in fact, the room is full and spacious, at least there are enough rooms!

However, there is no air conditioning installed in the house.

Before Xu Zhen didn't come back, Lin Yue'e of course didn't think it was necessary, and after Xu Zhen came back, she also felt that there was no need to use air conditioning in this weather, so she didn't buy it.

The so-called guest is as good as the host.

Of course, Tang Xin and Zhang He will not pick.

Although there are some bed choices, Tang Xin still feels quite warm when he sleeps on the bed covered with electric blankets!

Nothing was said all night.

The next day was another full day of observation and squatting.

Xu Zhen thinks these people are too great! Not for money, not for fame and fortune, just because they love nature and have the support of this belief in their hearts, even the almost boring squatting outdoors in the winter can't change their feelings.

Xu Zhen couldn't go far, so he went to the lemon orchard to collect some grass or pick some old vegetable leaves and throw them into the fish pond to feed the fish.

Day 3.

Tang Xin left, and when she asked, she found out that she had gone back to get another bird catching tool!

In the evening, Zhang He excitedly told Xu Zhen that he might have discovered the reason why the bird was wandering and not leaving.

"It must be because of the fish pond! When I observed it this day, I found that it only looked for food in the fish pond! The small fish and shrimp in this fish pond must be very suitable for its taste! ”

Xu Zhen saw that the experts said so, and he thought that his guess was really correct!

However, as for why this bird liked the food in the fish pond very much, Zhang He still did not know, and Xu Zhen was inconvenient to tell him.

After Tang Xin got back more professional bird catching tools. After a few days of observation, Zhang He decided to catch the bird.

At night, Xu Zhen climbed the tree and frightened the bird to the treetops not far from the next door, so that Xu Zhen was very conducive to shooting out the bird trapping net with a gun, such a thin net was very large, and the bird in the dark could not avoid it at all, and such a net was easy to hang on the branches, so as not to fall directly to the ground, and on the ground, Tang Xin and Zhang He also prepared some soft thatch and balloons and the like!

This time, I was able to catch the black ibis very smoothly.

If people who don't know how to catch these birds, they will definitely be wailing all day long, but Zhang He is an expert in bird conservation and knows how to calm the emotions of these birds.

It didn't take long for the black ibis to fall silent.

"Are you going to take it?" Xu Zhen didn't know if they really wanted to take it away, and there was really no way to provide better protection here.

"I think I'll take it! After all, there is only such a female black ibis here, and there are no black ibises in the zoo and bird language forest in Sanchuan Province, so we have to report to the State Forestry Administration to deploy black ibises from other places to breed and grow here! This black ibis is in good shape and condition, but it seems that it was injured some time ago and is recovering relatively well! Although the natural environment on your side is not bad, the protection of the black ibis may not be in place! ”

Xu Huan knew that they would definitely take it away, although he really wanted to keep it, but for the sake of the inheritance of the black ibis, it was really not suitable to leave this bird here.

"Then can you leave later tomorrow, I have to let my little niece come and see!"

"It's going to be fine!"