Tianfu's natural calendar 丨 Tibetan snow chicken wearing a "striped shirt" (September 20, 2022)

Chuanguan News reporter Shao Mingliang

Tibetan snow chicken is a larger chicken, mainly distributed in the Himalayas. They have no gorgeous appearance and no longer neck, but the hidden snow chicken is very individual. Its lower chest and abdomen are milky white, with black longitudinal lines, neatly planned, and it looks like wearing a trendy "striped shirt".

The Tibetan snow chicken has the ability to fly but is not good at. It is mainly active in running and fast walking. It often comes to the alpine meadow or streaming stone beaches of many rocks. The gray -white body feathers make Tibetan snow chicken easily integrate with the environment, which is conducive to them to avoid natural enemies. With a pair of thick and powerful "small short legs", the Tibetan snow chicken can walk in the nude rock and gravel.

In addition, the Tibetan snow chicken loves the group. During the day, from Tianming to the dusk, often walking from the mountainside to find food until the top of the mountain. They are timid and the police. Once they encounter danger, they will glide along the mountain to low, and they will soon fly out of hundreds of meters away. In the breeding season, the Tibetan snow chicken will make a short and powerful call to attract the partner. If the two male chickens meet the narrow road, they will still catch up with each other.

Tibetan snow chicken is mainly pecking plants of the ball stems, roots, grass leaves, etc. The thick bird beak is conducive to the rhizomes of the plants in the stone seams. When there are fewer foods in winter, Tibetan Snow Chicken will gather dozens of large groups to work at lower altitude places. As the place where the Snow Chicken lives is high and the people are inaccessible, they have become one of the most difficult to observe and shoot birds.