How to raise birds? What do birds eat?

When raising birds, you need to have "five hearts", "five excesses" and "five don'ts".

Five Hearts:

1. Love: People who raise birds need love in order to raise birds well. This is a point that everyone agrees on and does not need to be discussed.

2. Patience: Raising birds is a troublesome thing. Not only do you have to clean it up every day, don’t feed it, but also give it a lot of delicious food. It is a very troublesome thing, so people who raise birds You have to be patient.

3. Careful: When raising birds, you must carefully observe the birds every day and pay attention to their health. You should also observe more birds raised by others to find out the differences between the birds raised by yourself. Only in this way can you improve yourself.

4. Be open-minded: listen to other people’s opinions, accept other people’s suggestions, and be open-minded and eager to learn.

5. A normal mind: If a bird opens its mouth, anything that opens its mouth will definitely die, so the same is true for raising birds. If you don’t talk about anything else, you will die an unknown number every year, so everyone When raising birds, you must maintain a normal mind. You must not be arrogant when you have raised them, and you must not be discouraged when they die. You must maintain a normal mind.

Let’s talk about the "five more":

1. Listen more: When you have nothing to do, why not go to the bird market and stay for a while, listen to the old people talking about birds, you will grow A lot of insights. If you listen more, you should listen to other people's experiences and enrich yourself.

2. Read more: Read more about other people’s birds, their raising methods, such as making bird food, etc., read more relevant information, and read more other people’s posts in this forum.

3. Ask more: Bird raising is also knowledge. To learn something, you must also ask questions. To learn, you can read books. Of course, coming to our forum is also a good way. You must not only learn but also ask. If you don’t understand, just ask everyone. The bird friends here are very good and they will answer all your questions.

4. Think more: Think more. For example, every time you raise Dianqin, you should think more about the successes and failures, sum up more experiences, and learn more lessons.

5. Be more hands-on: To be honest, raising birds is really troublesome, but who will let us do this? So don't be afraid of trouble. If you need to do something, you must do it. You must also do something, such as making bird food, making perches, etc. You have to go through some experiments.

The last is the "Five Don'ts":

1. Don't be impatient: raising birds is something for slow people, so don't be impatient. If you raise a few chins, the birds will not be impatient at first. , The bird will not eat when it comes, and it will not eat dry food after it has eaten. The bird will die if it comes and goes in a hurry, and everything is in vain. Therefore, I would rather say that raising birds is nourishing one’s nature and mind.

2. Don’t be angry: Don’t be angry when you have a good bird or you have raised a bird, and don’t look down on others. Some people often like to take their love birds everywhere and let others see them. There is nothing to guard against when you look at it, but sometimes it is hard to accept what you say. The bird is done well, but the person is smelly. Why bother? What do you think?

3. Don’t have too high expectations: The higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment. They also said that it is difficult to raise a chin. It is difficult to raise a good bird. It is really sad that you finally get a good bird, but unfortunately it dies. It's been a while, so I don't hope too high.

4. Don’t be greedy: I ??used to raise birds and bought a lot. I wanted to raise all the good birds in the world, but the result was that the more I raised, the more birds I raised. Nowadays, many birds are either thrown away or raised. It’s really a bit of food. It would be a pity to abandon them if they are tasteless, so everyone who raises birds can finally choose a species to raise and raise.

5. Love, don’t spoil: Whose bird will be loved, whose child will be loved, this is the same truth, but love cannot spoil, the same is true for raising birds, don’t be afraid that it will not eat well, feed it desperately If you eat it, the effect is often not ideal, so you need to be scientific when loving birds.

Extended information:

Birds eat a variety of foods, including nectar, seeds, insects, fish, carrion, or other birds. Most birds are diurnal, but some (such as owls) are active at night or at dusk. Many birds migrate long distances to find the best habitat (such as the Arctic tern), and some spend most of their time at sea (such as the albatrosses). Flight Most birds can fly, but a few ratites cannot fly, especially those living on islands, which have basically lost the ability to fly.

Flyless birds include penguins, ostriches, kiwis (a wingless bird native to New Zealand), and the extinct dodo.

When humans or other mammals invade their habitats, these flightless birds, such as the great puffin and New Zealand's moa, will be more vulnerable to extinction.

Every spring and autumn, birds gather in flocks and fly in the sky, blocking out the sun. These birds have to change their habitats in different seasons, or move from their nesting grounds to their wintering grounds. , or the seasonal phenomenon of returning from wintering grounds to nesting grounds is called bird migration. Every year when the earth returns to spring, birds begin a series of activities such as courtship, reproduction, nest building, egg incubation and brood raising.

When birds fly, they rarely get lost, no matter how long the journey is. The reason is that they have their own "navigation system". During flight, they use many things to navigate themselves, such as landmarks, the angle of the sun, stars, smells, and even the geomagnetic field. There is a theory that the migration habits of birds and their ability to identify journeys are innate and can only be explained by heredity. The migratory habits of birds were caused by the difficulty of finding food in prehistoric times.

At that time, birds had to make periodic long journeys in search of food. In this way, year after year, from generation to generation, after a long evolutionary process, various migration habits are recorded in their genetic code, and then passed down from generation to generation through ribonucleic acid molecules. Therefore, those young birds that were abandoned by their parents very early, without the guidance of adult birds and without any migration experience, can still successfully fly thousands of miles to reach winter feeding grounds that they have never been to.

The fastest bird: the ostrich, which averages 72 kilometers/hour.

The fastest swimming bird: Gentoo penguin, which averages 27.4 kilometers/hour.

The smallest bird and the smallest egg: Many people know that hummingbirds are the smallest birds in the world. In fact, this statement is not very accurate, because there are about 315 species of hummingbirds in the world, distributed in From Alaska in North America to the Straits of Magellan in South America, and on many islands in between. Their body shapes are also very different. The largest giant hummingbird is 21.5 centimeters long. Of course, it cannot be said to be the smallest bird in the world. The body length of the wheatbird native to Africa is only 5.6 centimeters, of which the beak and tail account for about half, and the weight is only about 2 grams. Its size is similar to that of bees and other insects. Such hummingbirds are the smallest birds in the world. Its eggs are also the smallest bird eggs in the world, not much bigger than a period.

Most of the feathers of hummingbirds are very bright and shine with a metallic luster. Their flight skills are superb, they can fly backwards, take off and land vertically, and their wings vibrate very quickly, up to 50 to 70 times per second, so they have "magical birds", "comets", "forest goddesses" and "corollas", etc. call. In recent years, many places in China have claimed to have discovered hummingbirds, but these are actually misinformation.

The largest bird: The largest living bird in the world is the African ostrich living in Africa. It is 2 to 2.5 meters tall and weighs about 56 kilograms. The heaviest can reach 75 kilograms. . But it can't fly. Its eggs weigh about 1.5 kilograms and are 17.8 centimeters long, which is approximately equal to the total weight of 30 to 40 eggs. They are the largest bird eggs today.

The bird with the widest wingspan: the wandering albatross, which can reach 4 meters.

The largest flying bird: the Collie bird living in southeastern Africa, with a wing length of 2.56 meters and a weight of about 18 kilograms. The Great Bustard, the male weighs 18 kilograms.

The smallest bird of prey: the Borneo Falcon, with a body length of 15 cm and a weight of 35 grams.

The bird with the most feathers: swan, more than 25,000.

The bird with the fewest feathers: the hummingbird, less than 1,000.

The bird with the longest feathers: the cuckoo, whose tail feathers are more than twice the body length.

The bird with the longest lifespan: There are many long-lived birds among birds. For example, the average lifespan of the large seabird albatross is 50 to 60 years, and the large parrot can live to about 100 years. There is an Amazon parrot named "Jamie" in Liverpool, England. He was born on December 3, 1870 and died on November 5, 1975. He was 104 years old. He is worthy of being the "oldest birthday star" among birds.

The longest-lived ringed seabird: the King Albatross, more than 60 years.

The longest lived caged bird: Sunflower Cockatoo, more than 80 years old.

The fastest flying bird: The average flying speed of the sharp-tailed swift is 170 kilometers/hour, and the fastest can reach 360 kilometers/hour. It is called the fastest flying bird.

The fastest sprinting bird: the peregrine falcon, which can reach 180 kilometers per hour when diving to catch prey.

The slowest flying bird: Little Woodcock, 8 kilometers/hour.

The bird with the highest wingbeat frequency: Horned Hummingbird, 90 times/second.

The bird with the slowest wing beat: the vulture, which can glide for hours without flapping its wings.

The bird with the longest flight time in one flight: the North American golden plover, flying at a speed of 90 kilometers per hour for 35 hours and crossing more than 2,000 kilometers of sea.

The highest flying birds: Whooper swans and alpine vultures can fly over the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, with a flight altitude of more than 9,000 meters, and the alpine vulture has reached a height of more than 10,000 meters. Height, setting a record for the highest flight of a bird.

The bird that flies the farthest: The arctic tern is the bird that flies the farthest. It is a medium-sized bird that is accustomed to living during the day, so it is called a "day bird". When the Antarctic night falls, they fly to the distant North Pole. Since the day and night at the North Pole and South Pole are exactly opposite, it happens to be daytime at the North Pole.

Every year in June, they "give birth to children" in the Arctic region. In August, they lead their "children" to migrate south, flying across the earth, arriving near the Antarctic in December, and staying there until March of the following year. At the beginning of the month, we headed north again. Arctic terns fly between the two poles every year, flying a distance of more than 40,000 kilometers. Because it always lives in places where the sun never sets, people also call it the "day bird."

The most ferocious bird: the cassowary living in Australia. If you get too close and are considered a "terrorist" by the cassowaries, they will launch a brazen "preemptive" attack - a peck that may cause fractures. The bird's dagger-shaped claws can scratch you. Open someone's belly.

The bird with the longest tail feathers: the long-tailed chicken bred in Japan through artificial crossbreeding. The length of the tail feathers is very amazing, usually 6 to 7 meters long. The longest record is recorded in 1974. One is 12.5 meters. If it is allowed to stand on the balcony of a four-story building, its tail feathers can be dragged all the way to the ground on the ground floor, so it is also the longest bird feather in the world.

The bird with the largest weight difference between male and female birds: the great bustard living in northern Eurasia has the largest weight difference between male and female birds, with the male weighing 11 to 12 kilograms. The female bird weighs only 5 to 6 kilograms.

The bird with the longest beak: The toucan living in South America is the bird with the longest beak. The length of its beak is about 1 meter, which is very strange.

The longest beak: the Australian pelican, 47 cm long.

The widest beak: Shoebill, 12 cm wide.

The bird that learns the most words: the African gray parrot, which has learned more than 800 words.

The bird that is best at imitating song: the wetland reed warbler, which can imitate more than 60 kinds of bird songs.

The most complex bird's nest: the African weaver's nest. It is also the largest bastard nest, with more than 300 nest cells.

The largest bird's nest: the bald eagle's nest, 6 meters long and 2.9 meters wide.

The smallest nest: the honeybee bird's nest, only the size of a thimble.

The bird that lays the fewest eggs: The albatross only lays one egg per year, making it the bird that lays the fewest eggs.

The bird with the largest number of eggs in the clutch: gray partridge (a type of chicken), with 15 to 19 eggs per clutch.

The bird with the longest incubation period: The albatross is also the bird with the longest incubation period, generally taking 75 to 82 days.

The latest bird to reach sexual maturity: The process of reaching sexual maturity for albatrosses chicks is also the longest among birds, taking 9 to 12 years.

The largest bird egg fossil: Before the mid-17th century, an elephant bird lived in the southern part of Madagascar. It has become extinct in the 21st century. The length and diameter of the elephant bird egg fossil is 35.6 centimeters, which is equivalent to the size of 148 eggs. It is the largest bird egg fossil discovered in the world so far.

The largest bird fossil: The largest bird fossil is the fossil of Ornithornis, which is estimated to be about 4 meters tall. It originally lived on the island of Madagascar and became extinct in the 17th century AD.

Although penguins cannot fly, they could fly a long time ago.

Not only are hummingbirds the smallest, they can also fly upside down or stop in the air.

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