Endangered species -Green Peacock | Popular Popular Class

Green Peacock (scientific name: Pavo Muticus) large chicken, 180 ~ 230 cm in length. The male bird feathers are emerald blue -green, with a cluster of upright crown feathers on the head, and the back of the roof is green and has a copper luster. The body is dragged on the tail over 1 meter and the feather is covered. The feather end has a glossy eye spots, forming a gorgeous tail screen, which is extremely eye -catching. Female birds are not as beautiful as male birds, and there are no tail screens. The body feathers are mainly green metal green, with thick brown back, and a cluster of upper heads with upright feathers. The shape is similar to the male bird, and it is very eye -catching. It has not seen similar types of China, and it is easy to identify in the wild.

Hall of low mountain forests and shy inhabiting along the river. The male bird has a wonderful performance, showing off the opening screen to the female.

The food nature is relatively mixed, mainly eating Pyrus Pashia, Rubus Obcordatus, young branches and leaves, buds, mushrooms, grass, peas, rice and other plants and crops. Animal foods such as 蜥, earthworms, lizards, frogs and other animal foods. Chang Cheng's 5-10 small groups are walking while walking, especially in the early morning and near the evening.

Native species distribution: Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam.

It is distributed in the Nu River area in western Yunnan, the southwestern Simao area, the southern Honghe area, and the Chuxiong area in the central part.

Extinction areas: Bangladesh, India, Malaysia.

Peacocks are the largest pheasant birds, and their beautiful feathers can easily become hunting objects. Although the Green Peacock is listed as a national -level key protection animal in the Chinese Wildlife Protection Law and is strictly forbidden to capture hunting. However, in remote mountainous areas with inconvenient transportation, pocking is still difficult to control illegal activities. In addition, Green Peacock also has an English name- "Peafowl" (chicken eating pea), which can also profound a big habit. Some green peacocks that inhabit the cultivated land often often go to the cultivated land for food, causing damage to crops. To protect their crops, they will soak seeds with pesticides before sowing. "Disaster".

The living environment of green peacocks is increasingly shrinking, which is a major reason for their traces. Farmers scattered cattle and sheep in some mountain forests living with green peacocks. In the evening, cattle and sheep returned. During the period, they drank cattle and sheep. They often lost cattle and sheep. They needed to find them around. These behaviors caused a lot of disturbance to green peacocks. Many cattle and sheep were scattered in the core area of ​​the nature reserve, which had a certain impact and damage to the living environment and food of the green peacock. In addition, due to excessive pasta, the lack of vegetation under the forests of the habitat of green peacocks.

List of "National Key Protection Wildlife List": national first -class protection animal (effective on December 10, 1988).

Lutted into the "The IUCN Red List" of the World Nature Conservation Alliance: Endangered Species (EN), evaluated in 2013.

On May 22, 2017, on the day of the "International Biological Diversity", the Environmental Protection Propaganda and Education Center of the Environmental Protection Department of Yunnan Province issued a statement saying that green peacocks were listed as extremely critical species.

Sortoring/Qingyao, Acyl review/CEERRY editor/pierre

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