What kind of food does Pulsatilla eat?

White-headed Weng, also known as White-headed Bulbul, White-headed woman, White-headed Shell, etc., is a small bird of the family Passoidae. It is a songbird. In winter, northern birds move south to become migratory birds, and Taiwan subspecies are resident birds in Taiwan, with an average life span of about 10 to 15 years. Pulsatilla eats a large number of agricultural and forestry pests, one of the beneficial birds in agriculture and forestry, which is very worthy of protection. Let's take a look at what kind of food Pulsatilla eats.

What kind of food does Pulsatilla eat?

Pulsatilla is an omnivorous bird, which eats both animal food and plant food. animal foods mainly include beetles, walkers, golden beetles, turtles, night moths, ladybugs, locusts, snakes, bees, flies, mosquitoes, ants, horned fireflies, cicadas and other Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera and other insects and larvae, as well as spiders, ticks and other invertebrates. Plant raw food mainly includes wild Hawthorn, wild rose, cold berry, health grass, mulberry, heather, privet, neem, cherry, neem, grape, Sapium sebiferum, cabbage, indigo, sour jujube, camphor, catalpa and other plant fruits and seeds.

The living habits of Pulsatilla chinensis

Pulsatilla likes to nest on Acacia or banyan trees. In cities, it is common to build bowl-shaped nests with ears of withered grass or awn grass in balcony flowers and trees. The breeding period of Pulsatilla is from March to May every spring. During the breeding period, each pair of pulsatilla will establish their territory, which covers a small area, and their nests are usually built in mixed wood forests or trees not high above the ground. Female and male birds raise their chicks together, usually one or two times a season, and a litter lays 3 to 4 eggs. Almost all of the breeding season feeds on insects. The chicks need to hatch for about two weeks before they can break out of their shell, and then after about two weeks of feeding, they can get out of the nest.

Population status of Pulsatilla chinensis

Pulsatilla is a bird endemic to China and a common bird in the Yangtze River Basin and its southern areas in China. The distribution range of this species is very large. It is not close to the fragile and endangered critical value of species survival (distribution area or fluctuation range is less than 20000 square kilometers. Habitat quality, population size, distribution area fragmentation), the population trend is stable, so it is evaluated as a species without survival crisis. It has been included in the list of terrestrial wildlife under state protection or of important economic and scientific research value issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1, 2000.

Artificial breeding of Pulsatilla chinensis

1. The choice of birds: generally, pulsatilla is raised in order to listen to its pleasant songs, so more males are chosen, but the colors of male and female feathers are similar, so it is difficult to distinguish them. Experienced people can identify according to the gray chest of male birds, light female birds, white and clear pillows of male birds, slightly stained females and other characteristics. Young birds have a grayish brown head, brown olives on the back, and gray feathers on the abdomen and tail, which can be easily distinguished from adult birds. Because the adults caught in the wild are timid and not easy to tame, they usually take out the chicks with long feathers or raise the chicks that leave the nest.

2. The characteristics of the cage: Baitou Weng eats insects and fruits, has a lot of soft feces, and likes to take a water bath, so the bottom of the birdcage should be bright, and there is a dung support plate underneath, so it is easy for feces to leak and clean. Can be self-made bamboo cage, round (diameter 26 cm, height 30 cm) or square (26 × 26 × 30 cm), in the north can also be raised with a chin cage.

3, Feed feeding method: raising Pulsatilla chinensis can use a kind of powder as regular feed, such as mixing corn flour, peanut rice flour and cooked egg yolk at 5:2:3, or feeding some chin powder (mung bean flour, corn flour, cooked egg yolk, freshwater fish meal or silkworm pupa powder according to 5 / 2 / 2 / 1), often replenishing some fruit and insect larvae and pupae.

4. Management and training: pulsatilla is a soft predator under artificial rearing. The water in the water tank is easy to be polluted and needs to be brushed and replaced with fresh drinking water every day. Take out the rest of the fruit that you can't finish on the same day. Provide bath water every day (summer) or every other day (spring and early autumn) and let it bathe on its own. Wash the birdcage once a week. White-headed Weng is not cold-resistant, so in the north, it must be raised indoors in winter and stop going out to walk birds.

5. Feeding requirements: pulsatilla is suitable for eating some soft and delicate food, and the pitcher used is easy to be contaminated. Wash it every day and make sure it always gets clean water, and the water that you haven't finished that day must be replaced. It is necessary to provide water channels for bathing in Pulsatilla in summer, which is also needed in Spring and Autumn and will freshen up by itself. The cage should be kept clean at all times and thoroughly cleaned once a week.