What kind of food do yellow birds eat?

Oriole bird is one of the favorite animals of ancient literati, is the object of poets often sing, beautiful shape and beautiful call deep people's favorite, some captured oriole bird because do not know how to feed this bird, resulting in oriole bird starved to death things are very common, let's take a look at oriole bird eat what food bar!

What do orioles eat?

Oriole is a famous insectivorous beneficial bird, mainly living in broadleaf forest, most of them are resident birds, a few species have migration behavior, do not flock when migrating. Inhabits in the plain to low mountain forest zone or near the village on tall trees, arboreal, in the branches through the fly foraging insects, berries, etc., rarely to the ground activities, in the brood period, a large number of predation pear star caterpillars, locusts, moth larvae, etc.

The growth and reproduction of orioles

Oriole male birds in the breeding period of crisp and pleasant song, in the high tree level branches at the base of the suspension nest, male and female together with bark, hemp fibers, grass stems and so on in the horizontal branches of the basket suspension nest. More slender plant fibers and grass stems woven into a compact structure. Each nest lays 4~5 eggs, pink with rose sparsely spotted, egg shell shiny. The eggs are incubated by females and the incubation period is 13 - 15 days. The brooding period is 14~15 days, and the nestlings need parental care for about 15 days after leaving the nest.

Artificial Breeding of Orioles

The staple foods of oriole artificially raised include meat (such as beef, lean pork, fish), insects (such as bread worms), pasta (corn flour, soybean flour), cooked egg yolk and watermelon, apples, etc. The meat served should be cut into fine shreds and mixed with a small amount of vitamin B1. In order to keep oriole plumage gorgeous, but also to feed a certain amount of pigment feed. In daily management, attention should be paid to cleanliness and hygiene. Feed and water in food cans and water tanks should be replaced every day. Clean the cage bottom and feces tray 1~2 times a week to prevent feces from contaminating bird feathers and toes. Add protein feed and vitamins when molting. Orioles winter to winter indoors, room temperature should be above 10℃.

Note: Orioles are soft-eating birds, just caught wild orioles, often because of fear and refuse to eat gradually physical exhaustion and death, so began to be artificially fed. Feed lean pork, beef or mutton strips 2 cm long and 1.5 cm wide wrapped with chin powder 4 times a day. Be careful not to break the beak. At the same time, put congee chin powder into the food pot, sprinkle some yellow powder larvae on the surface, lure them to peck, and do not put water pot, promote the surface water in the oriole food pot to "change food". With Huang Peng's self-feeding situation, the artificial feeding times were gradually reduced, and it took 7~10 days to reach complete self-feeding.