Is it someone maliciously poisoning, or is it a collective illness, or is it really a sacrifice for love? Nearby residents were talking about it for a while. Chutian Metropolis Daily reporters rushed to the scene to interview, and contacted the Xianning City Wildlife Conservation Station and the Hubei Provincial Wildlife Epidemic Disease Monitoring Center staff rushed to the scene to find out the truth.

On the scene: 20 red-billed birds died collectively

At 10 am yesterday, the reporter came to Yinquan Avenue, Xianning City Next to the street-facing store in a community, sanitation workers have cleaned the site, and the dead birds have been put into a trash can not far away.

The reporter cleaned up and found that there were 18 animals in total. Careful observation found that these birds are about 10 cm long, with gorgeous feathers, gray-green backs, red-gray-yellow wings, pointed red beaks, yellow-white abdomens, and a part of the lower necks yellow.

Subsequently, under the guidance of the citizens, the reporter found two more birds nearby, and a total of 20 birds died.

Ms. Lu runs a supermarket nearby. At around 7:30 yesterday morning, when she opened the door, she found a few birds lying on the ground at the door. When she got closer, they were all dead. Looking at it again, at the door of the left and right shops, there are also several dead birds, adding up to a dozen or so.

Ms. Lu couldn't name the bird, and the neighbors didn't know either. She was wondering when she saw another bird flying over from the sidewalk tree, hitting the glass curtain wall on the second floor, falling to the ground and moving a few times before it stopped--It seems that the bird hit the wall and died. ' Ms Lu speculated.

The owner of the store next door introduced that there have been occasional bird deaths before, but not so many, just one or two. Why did they die?

Doubt: food poisoning or sickness

The news of the death of so many birds at one time spread like wildfire, and many citizens They all came to see the strangeness, and some citizens were still worried. Is it food poisoning? Or is it suffering from bird flu? Some citizens suspected: These birds may have eaten some poisonous food nearby, or they may have suffered from bird flu. They just flew here and became very sick. Not moving.

Some people have also analyzed that it may be that the birds lost their sense of direction and hit the wall due to the disturbance of the earth's magnetic field during the flight. bumped into.

After seeing it, a young man said half-jokingly: Although the bird is not big, it looks very beautiful. Wouldn't it be a collective sacrifice for love?

Reporter It was seen at the scene that the second floor of the storefront in the community was full of green glass curtain walls, and the shadow of the swaying trees on the opposite sidewalk could be clearly seen on the glass. Some of these dead birds had blood in their mouths, some had broken feathers, and some had their heads knocked off.

The truth: misled by the glass curtain wall and crashed

In order to find out the truth, a reporter from Chutian Metropolis Daily immediately contacted the Xianning City Wildlife Conservation Station. Liao Weijun, the deputy head of the station, immediately came with the staff and disinfected the site first.

After reading it, Liao Weijun said that the dead bird is called the red-billed acacia, which belongs to the provincial key protected animal. It is mainly distributed in the south and is relatively rare in Xianning.

After inspection, these birds all died under the glass curtain wall, with scars on their bodies. It was preliminarily presumed that they had hit the glass and died. As for the specific cause of death, further identification is required by wildlife protection experts from the Provincial Forestry Department.

Yesterday afternoon, the staff of the Hubei Provincial Wildlife Epidemic Disease Monitoring Center rushed to Xianning and carefully examined the carcass of the acacia. Li Yong, deputy director of the center, said that the preliminary judgment was that these birds were killed by mechanical injuries, which in layman's terms were killed by collision. In addition, the secretions of the mouth, eyes and anus of the dead bird were normal, so the possibility of death from disease (bird flu) was preliminarily ruled out.

Li Yong analyzed that in autumn and winter, food is relatively scarce in the mountains and forests. Acacias often migrate to cities in small groups to feed, but the shadows of trees on the glass curtain walls of some buildings in cities can easily make them Create an illusion, which interferes with their judgment of the direction of flight, resulting in a direct collision and death.

Li Yong said that with the acceleration of urban development, the phenomenon of light pollution is also increasing. Birds are injured and die from hitting the glass curtain wall when migrating. This is also the current urban construction. topics that require joint attention.