"Then let's wait here for a day." Chen Rui said.

"Okay."

So they set up camp by the brook, and set up a tent, under which they spread dry branches and hay, and on top of the dry branches and hay they spread blankets.

Deciding to stay here for the day, the two of them had plenty of time in the afternoon to explore the surrounding jungle.

The two of them placed their backpacks in their tents, surrounded them with thorny bushes to prevent too curious beasts from entering the tents, and then traveled lightly into the jungle.

It's about 1 p.m., about four hours before sunset, and the two need to return to camp after two hours of deep immersion in the jungle.

Chen Rui brought a knife and a kettle and entered the dense jungle.

There is a lot of wildlife in the jungle, wild boars, pheasants, monkeys, various birds, insects.

"Jiayi, come here, be quiet, and walk over slowly." Chen Rui shouted quietly.

"Okay."

Li Jiayi slowly walked to Chen Rui's side.

"Look what this thing is." Chen Rui pointed to more than a dozen birds on the tree and said, the birds on the tree are a bit like turtledoves, the head and upper body are blue-gray, the tail feathers are long, 2 tail feathers are brown, the rest of the tail feathers are white, the wings are gray-brown, with irregular black patches, the abdomen to the tail is brownish-gray, **** dark red, with large white spots, the throat is white, the beak is black, and the legs and feet are red.

"It's,." Li Jiayi was almost about to exclaim, if it weren't for the bird in the tree, Li Jiayi would have exclaimed a long time ago, but Li Jiayi's heart was full of surprises. Li Jiayi's grandfather was a biologist. Li Jiayi has witnessed it since she was a child. There is a very good knowledge about the birds in the trees. The famous bird, "This is the North American passenger pigeon." ”

"Yes, it's the North American passenger pigeon." Chen Rui nodded.

The North American passenger pigeon, in the biological world, is well-known, commonly known as the passenger pigeon, is the most famous representative of extinct birds in modern times.

North American passenger pigeons live in North America, and there used to be as many as 5 billion passenger pigeons living in the United States. The American pioneers encountered a flock of passenger pigeons, which could reach more than 100 million in each flock for several hours, as they drove their wagons in the wilderness, and the name "passenger" in its English name means "one who passes by".

Before Europeans came to the North American continent, there were as many as 5 billion passenger pigeons, and by 1914, the last passenger pigeon, Martha, stopped breathing, witnessing the death of the Americans, and also witnessing the destruction of a huge species in humans, and the rapid extinction.

In the 17th century, Europeans discovered the American continent shortly after. Because of the delicious meat, the passenger pigeon became the food of the pioneers, and the nightmare of the passenger pigeon began.

Large-scale commercial hunting began, and in 1805 in New York, a pair of passenger pigeons were sold for two cents, and the meat of the passenger pigeons was transported by train from the western United States, and the poor people of the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries often saw no meat but the passenger pigeon.

In the 40s of the 19th century, Birdwatch in the United States found that the number of passenger pigeons was declining too fast, and they decided to find a way to protect them.

In 1857, some scholars introduced a bill to the Ohio Legislative Assembly to protect the passenger pigeon. However, a special committee of the Legislative Council refused to legislate to protect the passenger pigeons on the grounds that "the number of passenger pigeons is huge, the habitats are everywhere, and the feeding grounds are wide and open".

In the 70s of the 19th century, after the end of the American Civil War, it was difficult for ornithologists to find large herds of passenger pigeons, and there were fewer and fewer records of wild passenger pigeons found in various places

In 1878, in Pytoski, Michigan, 50,000 passenger pigeons were killed every day, and this continued for five months.

In 1896, a flock of about 250,000 passenger pigeons was hunted, the last known large herd of passenger pigeons.

In the mid-90s of the 19th century, passenger pigeons were very rare. After that, there were almost no records in the field for the passenger pigeon

At the end of the 19th century, conservationists began to call for the protection of passenger pigeons, and legislation was passed in Michigan prohibiting the use of bird nets within two miles of the nesting sites of passenger pigeons, but this law was not strictly enforced.

On March 22, 1900, in a woodland on the outskirts of Pike County, Ohio, a 14-year-old boy hunter used his air gun to shoot down a wild passenger pigeon, the last recorded case of a wild passenger pigeon to date.

The last remaining pair of passenger pigeons left this world after leaving behind a young chick and a few unhatched eggs. Their chicks were named "Martha", after Martha Washington, the wife of the Founding Father of the United States.

At noon on September 1, 1914, the caretaker came to Martha's loft to inspect it, and saw Martha crouching on the roof, motionless looking at the sky outside, Martha's body was given to the Smithsonian Institution, which owns 140 museums, and was made into a taxidermy for preservation, but not for public display.

The Americans killed a passenger pigeon with a large population of 5 billion individuals.

The previous environmentalists had the same fighting power as the environmentalists in the United States today, and the passenger pigeon would not have such a fate, from 5 billion to 0, it only took more than 300 years.

If the Americans talk about the environmental protection of a certain country, as long as the people of a certain country take the American passenger pigeon to talk about things, it will definitely not be wrong, and the Americans will have nothing to say, and the Americans say: Chinese, you have PM2.5. The Chinese say: Americans, you exterminated the passenger pigeons, and the Americans say: Chinese, you discharge sewage indiscriminately. The Chinese say: You have exterminated the passenger pigeon. The Americans said: Chinese, how, Chinese said: Americans, you exterminated the passenger pigeon. The Americans burst into tears, big brother, don't mention whether the passenger pigeon is good or not! Let's just say, China's economy, your Chinese economy has created decades of gold.

For the stalk of the passenger pigeon, you can't reveal the scars of the Americans, once 5 billion passenger pigeons, the passenger pigeon with a strong reproductive ability, with the 'number of survival' strategy failed, was killed by the Americans to 0, the strongest human death process, the Americans did it.

In fact, although the passenger pigeon is called the North American passenger pigeon, the North American passenger pigeon is not limited to living in North America, but also found in Canada, Mexico and Cuba, in Europe, southern Africa has also been found, the passenger pigeon a "brigade" word illustrates their habits, weather, travel, wandering everywhere.

The most famous species, the passenger pigeon, which had already been identified as extinct in 1914, was rediscovered in the distant Daqing Mountains of China. (To be continued.) )