They all live on the cliff, in the middle of it.
There are many kinds of eagles, such as falcon, eagle, vulture, eagle and so on. , all belong to the eagle class, each class has many kinds.
Hawks in China are mainly distributed in Tibet, Xinjiang and Mongolia.
Eagle is a general term for vertebrates, birds and eagles.
Phylum: Chordata phylum
Subdivision: A subclass of vertebrates.
Category: birds
Hemiptera
Stork suborder
Eagles is a very complicated family, and familiar birds of prey such as eagles, eagles, harriers, owls and old world vultures are all members of Eagles. The members of the eagle family are different in size and habits, including the largest and fiercest raptors, small raptors, scavengers such as vultures, birds such as sparrows, mammals such as horned eagles, fish, reptiles, snakes, insects such as bees and eagles, and some adapt to special things such as palm vultures and fruit eaters. The family can be further divided into 9 subfamilies, including 64 genera and 209 species. Among them, there are 20 genera and 46 species in China, including kite subfamily, hawk subfamily, plover subfamily and plover subfamily.
Eagle generally refers to all kinds of birds of the genus Eagle. Keen eyesight, can see the prey on the ground when flying at high altitude. Because there are two fovea in the macula of the eagle's retina, there are not only 1 fovea more than ordinary animals, but also as many as 1 10,000 photoreceptor cells per square millimeter in the fovea (only about1.5,000 for human eyes). The upper beak is sharp and curved, and the lower beak is short. 4 toes have sharp claws, suitable for catching prey. Fierce, carnivorous, feeding on small animals such as birds and rats; Some species like to eat corpses, such as vultures. Developed wings, good at flying, generally more activities during the day. Most of them live in mountain forests or plains, such as the goshawk (Accipitergentilis), the sparrow hawk (Accipi-ternisus) and the kite (Milvus).
Eagle is a large bird of prey, with a stout body, long and wide wings and tail feathers, and slow fan-shaped wings. It often hovers on high mountains, can prey on rabbits, young animals and other large mammals, and also likes rodents. The common varieties in China are golden eagle and black hawk.
The golden eagle (Aguilachrysaetos), commonly known as the white eagle, is large in size, with a dark brown body color, which is the blackest among eagles and eagles. The head and neck of an adult bird are golden yellow. The tail feather base and wing feather base of young birds are white, and the white part disappears when they grow up. When flying, the wings are long and wide, and the tail end is slightly rounded. There are also white-tailed sea eagles and tiger-headed sea eagles in China. The whole body is brown, very similar to the golden eagle, but the tail is wedge-shaped, which is an important symbol different from the golden eagle. Living in mountainous areas, often perching on the top of cliffs or flying at high altitude. Ferocious, like to eat rabbits, pheasants, quails and even large mammals, such as young musk deer. Nesting is on high mountains, hanging rocks or trees, and it is often seen in Northeast China during migration. Young birds are domesticated into falcons; Flying feathers and tail feathers can be used to make fans, which has important economic value.
Aguilaclanga, commonly known as soap carving or flower carving, is bigger than an eagle, with a dark brown body, a V-shaped white spot on the waist and a longer tail than a golden carving and a white-shouldered carving. The complex feather tips of young birds' wings have bright spots. There is also a light spot at the base of the primary flight feather under the wing. They often live in swamps, rivers, watersides and other places. They are addicted to lizards, frogs, birds, seagulls, crows and mice, and often eat animal carcasses. He lives in northeast China and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River all the year round, and often haunts Fujian, Guangdong and other places in winter.
Falcon is a small bird of prey, generally slightly larger than pigeons, with narrow and pointed wings, long tail and agile flight, which mainly feeds on small animals and insects. The common species in China are peregrine falcon, swallow falcon and kestrel.
Falco peregrinus is a kind of falcon with big body and wide wings. Adult birds have a dark blue upper body, a white lower body and thin horizontal stripes. Young birds have dark brown upper body, longitudinal stripes on lower body, and obvious whisker-like black spots on the cheeks of young birds and adults. It is very fierce and flies very fast. Often living in coastal areas, flying over rivers and lakes, preying on wild ducks and other birds, it is a tourist bird in the north of China and a winter migratory bird in the south.
Falcon (Falcon) is similar to peregrine falcon, but it is smaller in size, with sharp wings and equal tail when perched, which is different from other eagles. The upper body is dark brown, and adult birds have black longitudinal spots from the chest to the abdomen, and reddish brown from gaskin to the lower part of the tail. Young birds have thick longitudinal spots, thick brown lower body and whiskers on cheeks. It is light gray under the wing and looks like a black bird when flying. Habitat in forest farmers, plains, grasslands and other places, flying lightly and quickly, often preying on flying insects and birds. All over the eastern part of China, in the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins, they are summer migratory birds and resident birds in Guangdong Province.
Falcon has a brown back, a blue-gray head and tail, and a black belt at the tip of the tail. The female body is reddish brown with horizontal spots on the top and vertical spots on the lower body. When flying, the flight feathers are dark brown, the compound feathers are very obvious, and the wings are sharper than peregrine falcons. They usually live in farmland, open foothills and grasslands near Pu Tian. Often grounded in the air, I saw the bait and swept it directly. I like insects, birds and small rodents. They are active in the north of China all the year round, and in the southeast of Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province province in winter.
Take the eagle as an example. There are seven species in China, one of which is called "Prairie Eagle", which is the only eagle that lives in the open grassland in central Inner Mongolia. It can kill a large number of rodent pests, such as rabbits, squirrels, jerboa, voles, etc., and plays a positive role in protecting the vigorous growth of pasture and providing sufficient feed for livestock, so it is a "hero" in developing animal husbandry production. In addition, because they prey on mice with infectious diseases and infirmities, they play the role of "scavengers" in controlling the spread of diseases and maintaining ecological balance.
The male bird carved on the grassland is small, with a body length of about 740 mm and brown feathers. The female bird is large, with a body length of about 780 mm and dark feathers. They spread all over western China, south to the Himalayas, and east to central and eastern Inner Mongolia and Hebei Province. After autumn, I moved to the south for the winter. Grassland carvings are mostly found in low mountains and open grasslands, generally flying very low, and often flying over grasslands at an altitude of 150-200 meters. Sometimes they look for prey on the ground and stand outside the rat hole "waiting for the rabbit". Its daily feeding time is completely consistent with the activity law of rodents, and it usually eats at 7- 10 in the morning and evening, which is a powerful fate for rodents. Build a nest in a tree, on a rock wall or in a woodchuck hole. Nests on trees are mainly made of branches, reeds, etc. And covered with grass or wool. Laying eggs in April-May, 2-3 eggs each time, with reddish brown and light gray spots on the eggs. The incubation period is 45 days, the brooding period is 55 days, and the young birds can fly out at the end of August.
The eagle is a legendary bird. For thousands of years, the eagle has been deified by human beings and become a symbol of courage and strength, but the relationship between the eagle and human beings is not limited to this.
Su Dongpo, a great poet in the Song Dynasty, once wrote: "The old man talks about juvenile madness, drawing yellow on the left and holding pale on the right ... The wine is drunk and the box is still open." This is what Su Dongpo described when he led people out hunting in the word "Hunting in Mizhou". Among them, "Right Qingcang" is a goshawk standing on its right arm. Of course, this goshawk is a falcon domesticated for hunting.
The domestication of wild eagles for hunting activities began before Su Dongpo's time. Our ancestors discovered early that eagles are good at catching pheasants, rabbits and ducks, so they began to explore ways to train eagles to hunt. Historically, hunting with eagles was called eagle hunting. Sima Qian recorded in Historical Records that Li Si, the prime minister of Qin Dynasty, was still thinking about the life of "leading a yellow dog with an eagle on his arm and going out to the East Gate of Shangcai" before he was executed. It can be seen that falcon was one of the main recreational activities of the nobles at that time. According to textual research, Falcon originated in the East, starting from 72 1 ~ 705 BC when King Sargon II of Assyria (the kingdom of northern Mesopotamia, now northern Iraq) was in power. Later, western businessmen, adventurers and crusaders learned eagle hunting in the East and introduced it to the European continent. At first, falcons were the exclusive pastime of the privileged. In the17th century, falcons became popular among the public. 1770, the world's first falconer association was established in Britain. There are many kinds of eagles used in eagle hunting, and goshawk is the main one in China. This kind of eagle is slender, the eagle is 0.5 meters long, and the female eagle is bigger than the eagle, about 0.56 meters. Wild goshawk likes to live in the forest. Their wings are short and round. When flying, the goshawk can fly with its wings, fly leisurely in the sky, hover in the air, and make a cry of "Didi-Lili ...". When a goshawk hunts, it always falls on a tree with a wide view to find its prey, and once it finds the target, it rushes down. Eagle hunters use the hunting habits of goshawks. The success rate of goshawk hunting is very high, because it has hunters and hounds to help disturb its prey. When its prey panicked, it quickly attacked and caught its prey in one fell swoop. At this time, the hunter should arrive in time, catch the prey and feed the falcon as a reward, otherwise the prey will become the food of the goshawk. It is said that the hunting ability of the female eagle is higher than that of the eagle, so the falconer likes to trap and domesticate the female eagle.
Eagle training is mainly to tame young eagles. However, goshawks usually nest at the top of tall trees, and few people dare to dig up their young eagles in Ying Chao. In that case, the thief will be attacked by male and female goshawks, scratched, scratched and even killed. Due to the extensive use of pesticides in recent decades, the forest has been overexploited, and goshawk is rare. Falcon activity also affects the survival number of goshawk to a greater or lesser extent. How to solve this problem remains to be studied. Peregrine falcons are also commonly used falcons in many countries in the world. In medieval England, only nobles above the count had the right to own peregrine falcons, and ordinary poor people could only tame other eagles. Strictly speaking, peregrine falcon is not an eagle but a falcon. Falcons are generally smaller than eagles. It has long and sharp wings and is good at flying fast. It is considered a fighter among birds.
In ancient China, falcons were called storks, which means flying birds. The important difference between a falcon and an eagle lies in its mouth. Falcon has a sharp odontoid process on the edge of maxilla, but eagle doesn't.
Peregrine falcon is the largest of its kind, with a body length of about 0.5 meters and wings spread up to about 0.7 meters. Peregrine falcons are mainly active in the open Yuan Ye. Farmland, grassland, river valleys and hills are all places where they show their talents. Peregrine falcons fly very fast, catching prey at the fastest speed of 360 kilometers per hour. Peregrine falcons mainly feed on birds, mostly preying in the air. They catch up with their prey at high speed and slam it with their claws. The prey falls directly to the ground after being injured, and peregrine falcons sometimes intercept it in the air without waiting for the prey to land. However, peregrine falcons sometimes miss and cannot hit their prey in one fell swoop. In this case, peregrine falcon never gives up its prey, and it will take off again until it catches its prey. When hunting, peregrine falcons usually pierce the cervical vertebra of their prey with their claws, then peck through the blood vessels in their necks with their mouths, and sometimes even peck off their necks. Then, it tore off the feathers of the bird and the muscles of its prey. This skill can be used freely even by peregrine falcons who have just left the nest. A nest of peregrine falcons can eat 300 medium-sized birds in a summer. Their diet includes needle-tailed ducks, red-necked ducks, wild ducks, seagulls, turtledoves, pheasants, rabbits, mice and insects. Because of this, peregrine falcons are widely appreciated by falconers.
Peregrine falcons are widely distributed, from the cold Arctic to the southern tip of Africa. During the First World War, Germany domesticated a large number of peregrine falcons and used them to intercept homing pigeons used by the Allies to send messages in the air. In doing so, it really destroyed the allied intelligence system. However, peregrine falcons can't identify the enemy and the enemy, and they won't let go of German homing pigeons, so the Germans were forced to stop using peregrine falcons. There are peregrine falcons in China, but they are mainly winter migratory birds, and the number is very rare. At present, peregrine falcon is seriously threatened in the world, and its number has dropped sharply. The main reason for this phenomenon is the worldwide abuse of pesticides. After peregrine falcon preys on prey with accumulated pesticides, its reproductive system is damaged, which will reduce the spawning rate and embryo survival rate. More seriously, many raptors, including peregrine falcon, have detected trace pesticides in their blood, which is undoubtedly a potential threat to peregrine falcon's highly developed movement regulation system. Once the amount of pesticides in the brain reaches the poisoning level, peregrine falcon is not only no longer a professional hunter. It's even hard to fly. Peregrine falcons are considered to be endangered in the United States, and many scientists are doing their best to save and protect them. Can this popular falcon regain its glory? People will wait and see.
Eagles are not just birds that humans hunt. More importantly, they play an irreplaceable role in maintaining ecological balance. In the early 1950s, the French rabbit got sick. In order to control the number of rabbits and protect the farm, the French deliberately made rabbit myxomatosis popular among rabbits. In this way, France did effectively control the number of rabbits, but other European countries suffered greatly. Because the number of rabbits in these countries remains at a normal level, and the epidemic of rabbit myxomatosis causes 90% rabbits to die. However, the number of rabbits living in Marimas in southern Spain is still quite large. Why? It turns out that there are more preys on raptors in Marimas, and sick rabbits infected with myxomatosis are more likely to be killed by raptors, and infected rabbits are constantly being eliminated, so myxomatosis is not popular in Marimas rabbits. If there is no raptor, who can save Mary Mas's rabbit from the plague? This is an extreme example, but it shows that in the natural ecosystem, eagle, a carnivorous bird, can control or protect its prey groups. In fact, they are helping the prey group to eliminate the weak, unable to survive and compete, thus ensuring the health and competitiveness of the prey group. Of course, they also control the number of prey within a certain range. For example, a sparrow hawk eats 290 mice every year, which is equivalent to 16 of the number of mice that a pair of mice can breed in a year. It is conceivable that sparrows have a strong ability to control the number of mice. Therefore, the eagle is an indispensable part of the ecological balance. Let's try our best to protect these raptors.
The golden eagle is famous for its courage and strength. The ancient Babylonian kingdom and the Roman Empire used golden eagles as a symbol of kingship. In Kublai Khan's time in China, powerful Mongolian hunters prevailed in domesticating golden eagles to catch wolves. Today, the golden eagle has become a scientist's assistant. They have been domesticated and used to catch wolf cubs, which has played a great role in further studying the ecological habits of wolves. Of course, before flying, you should trap their claws to avoid catching the wolf cubs to death. It is said that a golden eagle once captured 14 wolves, which shows its ferocity.
The golden eagle is not a golden eagle, although it comes from the Greek name which literally translates into the golden eagle. The golden color mentioned here may be in terms of the metallic luster reflected by its head and neck feathers under the sunlight, because its feathers are chestnut brown, which is far from gold. The golden eagle is nearly 1 m long and weighs about 4 kg. It is the largest kind of eagle. Its legs are covered with feathers except toes, and it looks really handsome.
The golden eagle has a wingspan of 1.5 meters and its flying speed is very fast. When chasing prey, it is as fast as the falcon in the raptor. Because of this, taxonomists originally listed them as a kind of falcon. The golden eagle flies very fast. It has clever and flexible hunting methods. Golden eagles don't fly fast when searching for prey. They circled slowly in the air. Once they find their prey, they will rush down, catch it, flap their wings and fly into the sky like lightning. The cubs who have just left the nest are often attacked by this kind, and it is too late for the mother wolf to come to the rescue. In the air, golden eagles can also prey at will. It is described that the golden eagle rushed into the sky from the ground and preyed on the pheasant that flew by: when it flew under the pheasant, it suddenly leaned back to the sky and slammed catch the pheasant with its claws. The pheasant fell straight after being injured, and the golden eagle turned over and swooped down to catch the pheasant in the air. This is simply an excellent pilot performance.
The nests of golden eagles are built on high places, such as the tops of tall trees and convex rocks in the lee of cliffs, because it is difficult for people and other animals to get close to these places. A pair of golden eagles occupy a very large area, nearly 100 square kilometers. They will confront each other with their claws for any animals near their nests. Therefore, studying the Golden Eagle Nest is an adventurous activity. However, a Swedish female ornithologist successfully took an adventure. She found a golden eagle nest and wanted to get close to it. Because of her attack, Golden Eagle immediately attacked. In the shrill cry of "Ji Ji-",the golden eagle swooped down on her again and again, but every time she quickly avoided the attack of the golden eagle. Finally, the golden eagle gave up the attack and flew away in circles. So she built an observation point on the cliff opposite the Golden Eagle Nest. She found that in the nest she observed, there were already two chicks covered with white feathers, and the golden eagle flew far away every day to find food for the chicks. Over time, the golden eagle stopped paying attention to her. One day, she changed a hat, but I didn't expect this move to attract repeated attacks from the golden eagle. She had to put on her old hat again and the golden eagle flew away safely. This action of the golden eagle aroused her interest, so she made a dummy and dressed it in different clothes. She went out with the dummy on her back. The golden eagle immediately found the target again. Golden Eagle succeeded this time. It grabbed the dummy and flew to a clearing not far from the nest. It left the dummy and flew away. It turns out that this clearing is the "grain depot" of the golden eagle, and some animal bones have not been eaten by the golden eagle.
As time passed, the little golden eagle grew up. One day, a restless little golden eagle came out of its nest and landed on the hillside under it. Female ornithologists came to the rescue, and the golden eagle that came back from preying was in hot pursuit. Perhaps it is because the female ornithologists are holding their "beloved son" in their arms, and the golden eagle did not attack this time. The female ornithologist put the golden eagle in the nest, and after leaving safely, the golden eagle couldn't wait to fall into the nest.
China is a country rich in sea eagles, and its producing areas are concentrated in the west and northeast. Jade belt seahawk is a kind of seahawk widely distributed in the western plateau of China. They are huge, with a wingspan of 2 meters. They especially like to eat woodchuck cubs and pikas. They often live quietly at a distance of more than ten meters from groundhog holes and pika holes. When the prey leaned out of the hole and looked around, the huge jade belt sea eagle swooped down. They make little noise when taking off, so the success rate of predation is high. Jade-banded sea eagles living in Lake Baikal outside the Soviet Union mainly feed on fish, but also eat some mice and geese. The tail feather of the jade belt sea eagle is dark brown, and there is a white broadband in the middle of the tail feather. The tail feather of the jade belt seahawk is a very precious feather ornament, so it is often killed by people. The white-tailed sea eagle is similar to the jade belt sea eagle in shape, and its tail feather is pure white, which is very conspicuous. White-tailed sea eagles live in coastal areas. When breeding, it migrates to the northeast and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and overwinters south of the Yangtze River in winter. Besides fish, white-tailed sea eagles also eat rabbits, mice and young deer. In winter, they occasionally prey on dogs and cats, and even eat carrion and garbage near fishing grounds. White-tailed sea eagles eat a lot, but they are also hungry. They can eat nothing for 45 days, and they are safe. Almost all the feathers of the white-tailed seahawk have economic value. The feathers of wings and tails can be made into fans, and the feathers under the tail can be used as decorative feathers. White-tailed sea eagle and jade belt sea eagle are rare in China, and have been listed as national second-class protected animals. The vulture is the most famous one. They only live in North America. In the18th century, the American Congress designated the vulture as the national bird. Since then, the national emblem and military uniform of the United States have been printed with the pattern of vultures holding olive branches. In this pattern, the olive branch symbolizes peace and the vulture means war. Together, they symbolize the United States Congress, which combines the rights of peace and war.
The most prominent feature of a vulture is that its head and tail are as white as snow, and the rest of its body is brown. Their young birds are different from adult birds, and their feathers are chestnut brown at birth, similar to golden eagles. With the increase of age, the feathers on the head and tail of the little vulture gradually turn white. It usually takes seven years for a young bird to fully mature, and then its head and tail become exactly like its parents. Vultures feed on fish and other small animals. They also eat carrion. They often take food from his population by force. Sometimes they force weak fishing birds such as seagulls to spit out their prey; Sometimes they rob food by force, and weak birds are forced to give up food by their strength. Even the larger vultures have to be bullied by them to spit out the carrion in the crop, otherwise the vultures will be violently attacked by vultures, and they will be injured or killed. However, even such a powerful raptor could not escape the fate of being killed by human beings. Even in the United States, which is regarded as the national bird, 103454 vultures were shot from 1922 to 1940. After World War II, more than 1000 vultures were still killed by hunters at gunpoint. However, the bad luck of vultures does not stop there. Recently, scientists have found that the content of toxic chemicals in the blood of vultures is significantly higher than that of other raptors, and the reproductive organs and brain tissues of many vultures are damaged. More seriously, a large number of embryos often die because of too many toxic chemicals in the body. As a result, the number of vultures has decreased dramatically. At present, the United States is investing a lot of manpower and material resources to save the endangered vulture. If I had known this, why should I have!
Speaking of eagles, everyone may know them, because they can be found almost everywhere, whether in the suburbs of towns or in rural areas of Shan Ye. Sometimes they fly directly with their wings, and sometimes they hover at high altitude. Their flying posture is light and admirable. Gao Ding, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem: "The grass grows in February, and the willows on the embankment are drunk with spring smoke. The children came back from school early and were busy flying kites in the east wind. " The paper kite here is a kite, and the kite is the taxonomic title of the eagle. The ancients called kites paper kites, which shows how familiar people are with the beautiful flying posture of kites. In English, kites are also called kites, and kites in Chinese mean Phoenix Zheng. It can be seen that the understanding of kites in ancient and modern China and abroad is very similar.
Kites are a kind of eagles, and it is easy to identify them: their feathers are dark brown, and when flying, a white spot is exposed on the left and right sides of their wings, and their tails are forked and concave in the middle, which is completely different from other eagles' round tails.
"The eagle catches the chicken" is well known and has even become a game that children often play. So, is kite addicted to eating chicken? In fact, kites have various eating habits. They often prey on small mammals such as rabbits and mice in the field, and also eat birds, snakes, frogs, fish, locusts, ants and earthworms. Sometimes they even eat some whole grains. At the seaside, kites often feed on garbage, rotten fish and small animal carcasses, so they are called scavengers. Relatively speaking, chickens account for only a small part of the kite diet.
Red kite is a kind of kite widely distributed in Europe, North America and the Middle East. It is different from the common kites in China, and its feathers are reddish brown, hence the name "Red Kite". The red kite is about 0.6 meters long, with wings spread to 1.6 meters and a forked tail. In the breeding season, male and female red kites compete with each other in Qi Fei, and the clear sky in Wan Li is like a huge "dance floor". The red kite flies up and down to show her flying skills. After "staying together for life", the male and female red kites flew to their favorite nest sites and "settled down" together. The nests of red kites are mostly old nests, probably used by a pair of them the year before last. Nests are usually built on tall trees near the edge of the forest, which makes them not only "places" for hatching eggs, but also their watchtowers, making it very convenient to search for prey. Of course, the old nest must be repaired before it can be used, so both husband and wife are very busy. They use their mouths to pick up twigs, fresh moss, all kinds of notes, animal hair, rotten cloth ends, and even clothes on the clothesline of nearby people. It's really "eclectic choice of nest materials."
After the comfortable nest is repaired, the female red kite lays 2 ~ 4 eggs. In mid-April, chickens with gray feathers hatched. They opened their mouths and kept singing for food. The male red kite hurried out to look for the young kite. At this time, the male red kite goes out hunting as many as 6 times a day, and each trip is at least 20 kilometers.
Red kites have a complicated diet like kites. They eat voles, house mice, marmots, snakes, worms, dead animals and carrion. When food is in short supply, Chiyang will also "beg" for "children". Of course, strictly speaking, he said that they were not really "begging", they just stood quietly next to the large raptors or beasts that were biting food. If the owner of the food is "merciful", there will be some food left, and the red kite will "clean up" these leftovers.
In the first week of incubation, the male red kite always goes out alone to hunt for the whole family. A week later, the female red kite and her husband went hunting.
The little red kite began to "exercise" its wings about 45 days after birth. They stood by the nest and kept flapping their wings, but they couldn't take off. "Parents" are indifferent to small practices and continue to hunt food every day, all by themselves. After 4 ~ 5 days of practice, the strong little red kite tried to fly for the first time. During the period of practicing flying in Xiaochiyuan, "parents" were particularly busy, because Xiaochiyuan, who practiced flying, always didn't have enough to eat. Red kite "parents" went hunting again and again, returned to the nest and put food in the nest, and then hurried to the hunting ground. "In the nest, as they fly back again and again, there are" food disputes "again and again. Hungry little red kites are fighting for food. Of course, the strong little red kite always prevails, and the competition for survival is no exception even among "brothers and sisters"! A few months later, the little red kite with hard wings left home and began to live independently.
There are many strange kinds of kites. For example, there is a kind of kite distributed in Florida and South America, called snail kite. It has long been known that this kind of kite only feeds on snails, but how to eat it is little known. Later, an American explorer named Herbert Lang described in detail how snails spent their honeymoon on snails based on his observations in British Guiana. It turned out that when the snail kite picked up a snail, it was not in a hurry to act. It holds the snail shell with its claws and waits patiently. When the snail thought everything was all right and the body slowly stretched out of the shell, the snail kite accurately stabbed the snail's body with its sharp mouth. Two minutes later, the snail was paralyzed. Then, the snail kite shakes the hard shell and throws the snail's body. At this time, they can't wait to swallow snail meat, even the cutin of snail's closed hard shell.
This feeding method of snail kite is really unique and interesting. However, what is more interesting is another kind of kite, the cuckoo falcon, which is distributed in the jungle of India-Malaya region. They can dig out animals hidden in tree holes with their feet. Their feet are as flexible as monkeys' hands. Their ankles, that is, the "knee joints" of ordinary birds, can not only bend forward, but also bend backward, just like human wrists.
The bee eagle is also a kite. They are about 0.6 meters long and have dark brown feathers on their backs. The face has small and rich feathers that look like scales. Falcons often inhabit sparse pine forests and often go to rural fields and grasslands. Humminghawks dig hives and devour eggs, larvae and even adult bees with thorns. Their scaly feathers on their faces are like helmets, which makes bees helpless. In summer, humminghawks often move their habitats with the movement of bees. In winter, they will return to warm places. Humminghawks not only eat bees, they also eat small animals, such as slugs, bugs, mice, frogs and snakes. According to records, the bee eagle is very common in the hills in the east and the south of China. The bee eagle loves bees, which brings some losses to the bee industry, but on the other hand, the bee eagle also pecks pests, which brings some benefits to agricultural and forestry production.