Henan Farmer Finds a Bird, Weighing 3 Kilograms, Wingspan Reaches 80 Centimeters; Expert Says Fortunately It Was Not Randomly Released
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The earth is an animal world, lacking no precious birds and strange beasts. When we happen to find an unfamiliar animal, what is the correct way to handle it? This picture book story might be a revelation to us. Let's say that in Zhongmou County, Henan Province, Yaojia Town, Yan Family Village, there lives a farmer named Lao Tian who values diligence and wealth. On a day in June 2017, while working in his garlic field, he suddenly discovered a bird in the middle of the field, flapping its wings.
Seeing someone approaching, the bird flapped its wings even more frantically, but no matter how hard it flapped its huge wings, it couldn't take off. Seeing that Lao Tian was approaching, he picked up the bird. Unknowingly, this bird was very fierce and kept struggling, and Lao Tian's arm was scratched by its claws and beak. Lao Tian avoided its claws and beak, grabbed its wings, and subdued the bird. Lao Tian had never seen this kind of bird, so he took it home to see if any villagers recognized it, but no one among the villagers recognized it.
What should be done with this fierce bird? The villagers spoke up, some said they had snapped off a bottle, some said they would sell it for money, and some said they would release it into the wild. But Lao Tian had his own opinion, and his approach was to call the county to report the situation. After receiving the call, the Zhongmou County Forestry Bureau dispatched two staff members to drive to Lao Tian's home. The two staff members looked left and right, and couldn't tell what kind of bird it was. They regretfully told the onlookers: 'Sorry, we don't know what kind of bird this is.'
The two staff members took the bird back to the unit, and found that the bird was not injured, perhaps because of hunger, it didn't have the strength to fly. Therefore, they gave it water and food. Subsequently, the staff members photographed the bird with their mobile phones and sent them to an expert at Zhengzhou Forestry Bureau's Wild Animal Rescue Station for review. The expert recognized the bird at a glance, its name was Falcon, and it was a young bird. The expert said: 'Falcon is a large raptor, mainly feeding on birds and small animals. You did the right thing, fortunately you didn't sell it or release it randomly. If you release it randomly, it will seriously affect the local ecology.'
The expert said: 'Falcon is a noble identity, the national bird of Mongolia, a second-level key protected animal in our country, extremely rare and scarce.' The expert estimated that this young Falcon bird was escaped from a hobbyist who illegally raised it, and Falcon was worth a fortune, some wealthy Arab billionaires liked to raise Falcons to catch fish. Owning Falcons in Arab countries is a symbol of nobility, and a Falcon that sells for more than 5 million is popular. Subsequently, the Zhongmou County Forestry Bureau's two staff members sent the Falcon to Zhengzhou Forestry Bureau's Wild Animal Rescue Station.
The Wild Animal Rescue Station staff measured and examined the Falcon: its wings opened nearly 80 centimeters, and its weight was about 1.5 kilograms. It had no fractures, and was currently only due to prolonged hunger, its mental state was poor, and it had a little inflammation in its intestines. In order to let it recover as soon as possible, the rescue station staff set aside a separate isolation room for it, and cleaned it for it to live in, and injected it with cephalosporin and gave it some water and meat. After a period of careful treatment and feeding, the Falcon was taken to a specific area to return to nature.
The Zhongmou County Forestry Bureau awarded Lao Tian a banner in recognition of his behavior of protecting animals. When the villagers came to Lao Tian's home and saw the banner hanging on his wall, someone laughed and said that he had brushed past 5 million and let him say a word.
