Qiu Jinghui / invites black-winged kites to help farmers catch mice! Set up an artificial perch. DIY, come quickly.

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In the early afternoon of the cold dew, it rained heavily, interrupting the rhythm of ploughing and ploughing in the south. After the summer hot and rainy fallow period, at this time is planting red beans, turnips, small tomatoes and other winter crops, is the southern farmland vitality of the season. the next morning after the rain, a small group of small farmers who practice green conservation, along with teachers and students from the institute of bird ecology at pingtung university of science and technology, gathered on a large area of taiwan sugar farmland south of the terminus of national highway 10. under the lively leadership of "black kite princess" lin huishan, they held an activity entitled "ask eagles to help catch rats--black-winged kite habitat training and practice."

A Common Problem for Farmers Caused by Rodents in the Field

On both sides of the Taiwan Third Line, at the border between Meinung Chishan and Pingtung Li Harbor in Kaohsiung, the most familiar crop is the green bean known as green gold. Different from the enterprise model of soybean farmers, Runhui Organic Farm is mainly based on the mode of small-scale farming. In the past two years, several young farmers have joined in, planting pineapple, sweet potato, radish, corn, tomato, black bean, etc. here, with various crop forms.

Because of the lack of chemicals, rats are rampant. Zeng Qishang, a farmer who has been planting here for many years, said,"At least 50 rat traps will be lost every year." Hsu Ya-ching, who has a field in Mi-nung, says: "Last year, every sweet potato string was bitten by rats." As soon as the black-winged kite's perch training began, a mouse staged a scene of moving a young mouse. Princess Black Kite also deliberately lowered her voice."Don't let the mouse hear you."

Standing perch frame (Qiu Jinghui)

For details and precautions, please link to: Please black winged kite to catch mice in the field-Practical section (Bird ecology laboratory blog of Pingtung University Wild Protection Institute)

Sponsored by the Bureau of Disease Control and Inspection of the Council of Agriculture, Chang Yun-ping, section chief of the Ecological Conservation Section of the Kaohsiung City Agricultural Bureau, and Yang Chia-hung, section chief of the Meinung District Office's Agriculture Section, also came to observe and learn. It is hoped that it can be extended to the field in the future to achieve the effect of inhibiting rats.

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