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The above is the blue-eared kingfisher. One of the three kingfishers in China.

The blue-eared kingfisher belongs to the kingfisher family, and its scientific name is Alcedo meninting. Small climbing bird. The total length is about 15cm. The top of the head and neck is black with blue-purple horizontal spots; Ear feathers are purple and blue; The throat is light brown; There is a yellow and white spot on each side of the neck. Blue-eared kingfishers can be divided into forest and aquatic species. The wooded blue-eared kingfisher is far away from water and feeds on insects. Aquatic species mainly live in fresh water areas all over the country, and like to live and feed in ponds, swamps and streams. The food is mainly fish, shrimp and insects. Often live quietly on the leaves in the water and the trees on the rocks by the water. Blue-eared kingfisher is only distributed in Mengla, Yunnan. Its ecological and biological data are rarely recorded in China. 1960, famous scientists Zheng, Professor and others once collected one by a river ditch in Mengla County. It is a national second-class protected animal.

The upper back is dark blue, and the middle back, waist to tail are covered with blue feathers.

The wings are covered with dark blue feathers with cobalt blue spots.

The tail feather is dark blue.

The lower body is chestnuts.

The mouth is black and the base is red.

Red feet.

Perched in a tree by a forest stream. Feeding on fish, shrimp, mollusks and aquatic insects.

Produced in Yunnan. Attribution country

Chinese name: blue-eared kingfisher

Chinese names: Buddhism, Buddhism, monk.

Chinese name: Kingfisher [1]

Chinese name: kingfisher

Synonym: Al Cedo Men in Ting Horsfield, 182 1.

Blueeared kingfisher

Latin name: Coralliformes

Latin name: Alcateco

Latin scientific name: Alcedo

Latin name: Meningin

Name and year of species: horsfield, 182 1.

English common name: blue-eared kingfisher

Blue-eared kingfishers can be divided into forest and aquatic species. The wooded blue-eared kingfisher is far away from water and feeds on insects. Aquatic species mainly live in freshwater areas all over the world, and like to live and feed in ponds, swamps [4] and streams. The food is mainly fish, shrimp and insects. Often live quietly on the leaves in the water and the trees on the rocks by the water. Keep your eyes on the water. Once food is found, grab it directly at lightning speed, and then return to the habitat to wait. Sometimes you fly on the water like a rocket, which is very beautiful.

Blue-eared kingfishers often use their mouths to dig holes and nest on mud cliffs near the water or sand slopes on the shore. The nest room is spherical, and the nest is covered with fish bones and scales, ready to raise children. Because birds love to eat fish, people also call them "fish tiger", "water dog" and "fish dog".

Blue-eared kingfisher is only distributed in Mengla, Yunnan. [5] Its ecological and biological data are rarely recorded in China. 1960, famous scientists Zheng, Professor and others once collected one by a river ditch in Mengla County.

Blue-eared kingfisher has high ornamental value. Its upper body is dark blue, its lower body is red and brown, and the feathers covering its ears are dark blue. The top of the head and wings are densely covered with purple and blue horizontal spots. 1960 specimens, the total length is only165 mm. Blue-eared kingfisher is a resident bird, mainly inhabiting the banks of evergreen broad-leaved forest [6] below the altitude of1500m, especially in streams with dense forests and abundant aquatic animals. Often act alone. I like living on the low branches on the shore. They mainly feed on small fish, shrimp, aquatic insects and mollusks.

Blue-eared kingfishers like to inhabit rivers, lakes and irrigation canals with shrubs or sparse forests and clear and slow water. Lonely, usually living alone on branches or rocks near the water, waiting for opportunities to hunt. The food is mainly small fish, eating crustaceans, various aquatic insects and their larvae, and also pecking at small frogs and a small amount of aquatic plants.

Methods of artificial feeding:

The staple food of adult blue-eared kingfisher

The staple food of adult blue-eared kingfisher is egg yolk rice, including

Egg yolk millet

Two kinds:

Ingredients: 250g of rice and 2 egg yolks.

Production: put the washed and dried rice into a pot with a few drops of cooking oil in advance, stir-fry with slow fire, and add egg yolk, and stir-fry continuously until the water vapor gradually disappears and the egg yolk adheres to the surface of the rice grains evenly [9]. When the rice grains are dry, loose, fragrant and not sticky, cease fire and stir-fry the egg yolk rice.

Egg yolk rice is perfect in nutrition. Because the blue-eared kingfisher can eat it by itself, it can be used as a staple food. Egg yolk millet

Ingredients: 300 grams of millet and 2 egg yolks.

Production: The production of yolk millet [10] is basically the same as that of yolk rice.

The above two kinds of dark yellow rice should be eaten for 7 ~ 10 days at a time. Especially in rainy season, the climate is humid, and the storage time should not be too long to avoid mildew.

The staple food of young blue-eared kingfisher

Steamed bread paste or bread paste

Bread paste

Steamed bread paste or bread paste is a common staple food for chicks. Its processing method is: soak steamed bread [1 1] or bread in warm water until it becomes soft, and then feed it. The advantage is easy to digest. However, because its nutrition is mainly carbohydrates, simply feeding chicks can not meet the needs of their rapid growth, and it must be combined with other feeds.

When there are a lot of chickens, bird people often takes wet mixture as its staple food for convenience.

Composition:

3 portions of corn flour, 0 portion of rice flour/kloc-0, and 0 portion of mung bean powder. 5 portions, egg yolk 1. Five copies. Production: cook the egg yolk, take out the egg yolk, add cold boiled water to make paste, then mix the above powders in proportion, add them into the egg yolk paste to make soft dough, and knead them into small strips.

tofu

An auxiliary food for chicks. Its advantages are soft texture, high content of protein, high content of lysine in protein, easy to digest and absorb, and can be fed with steamed bread paste and bread paste.

Eel paste

Monopterus albus is an ideal animal food supplement for chicks.

Production method: Choose live Monopterus albus, cut it into small pieces with a knife, and then chop it into minced meat. When feeding, you should control your food intake. At first, the amount should be small, and then gradually increase with the growth of chicks.

Egg yolk paste

Egg yolk paste

Animal protein supplement. Boil the egg, take out the yolk, make it into paste with warm water, add some steamed bread paste or bread paste, and stir and feed it. The effect is good. The feeding amount should be controlled at first, and then gradually increased.

insect

Animal complementary food. Insects mainly include breadworm [12], mole cricket, oil gourd, earthworm and so on. Feeding from less to more.

Mixed complementary food

Mixed cereal complementary food

defatted milk powder

Solid powder (such as rice flour, flour and corn flour), soybean powder (such as soybean powder [13] and mung bean powder), animal powder (such as meat powder, fish powder, egg yolk powder and skimmed milk powder) and mineral powder (such as calcium carbonate, bone powder, eggshell powder and shell powder) are mixed, with comprehensive nutrition, mainly adult blue.

condiments

2 portions of cereal flour, 0 portion of soybean flour/kloc-0, and 0 portion of animal flour/kloc-0. 5 parts and 0 parts of mineral powder. Five copies. Preparation: mix the above powders in proportion, add water to make paste, but not too thin, and put it into an auxiliary trough for the blue-eared kingfisher to peck freely.

Granulated feed

Granular feed has comprehensive nutrition and low water content. As long as it is kept dry, it is generally not easy to get moldy and lasts for a long time. There are some bird breeders on display, and the breeding effect is better.

thermal insulation

The fluffy chicks [14] that have just hatched and not hatched are young and tender, with thin fluff and weak cold resistance. In addition, the weather turns from warm to cold in late May every year, so it is necessary to pay special attention to the warm-keeping work of fluffy chicks. Warm keeping method: according to the number of chicks, make a warm nest with cloth and cotton and feed the whole nest. In the case of sudden cold weather, when the temperature of chicks can't reach its required temperature, hot water bottles can be added to the nest to supplement a certain amount of heat to ensure the required temperature of chicks. You can also cover the bird's nest with a cloth, but you should pay attention to ventilation and not overheat to avoid suffocation and heat death.

fodder

bread bug

The digestive organs of fluffy chicks are immature and their digestion and absorption ability is weak. When they start feeding, they should feed some digestible foods, such as steamed bread paste, bread paste, wet powder, tofu [15] and so on. With the growth of chicks' age, their bodies grow up gradually, their digestive ability increases day by day, and their food intake begins to increase. At this time, it can be added as animal feed, such as minced eel and bread worm. Because the chicks' bodies and feathers grow faster, they should be fed enough food, but not too much at a time. After feeding, let them have a full rest and don't disturb them often. The feeding interval should be about 2 hours.

Pay attention to hygiene

1, food hygiene: all food should be cooked and fed now. If it is kept for a few days, be careful not to deteriorate. Animal feed must be fresh and insects must be alive.

2, bird's nest hygiene: keep the bird's nest clean and dry, change the padding in the nest every day, and remove feces.

Feeding points

Full-feathered chicks are fed by their parents until their feathers are full. They have strong bodies, good appetites, low temperature requirements and certain mobility. The feed points are as follows:

1. There should be a gradual transition from artificial feeding to self-feeding: young birds who have just grown badminton will not feed themselves at first.

Blue-eared kingfisher-water bath training

As far as feeding is concerned, it needs artificial feeding for a period of time. The feed is basically the same as that of fluffy chicks, and it can be mainly wet powder. In order to let it learn to eat freely, some wet powder can be added to the cage food jar to lure it to peck. With the increase of age, some egg yolk rice and water can be added to the cage feeding trough to artificially guide them to eat and drink, that is, from artificial feeding to feeding and drinking by the young birds themselves, and when the young birds can eat and drink by themselves, the artificial feeding is stopped. At this time, the feeding method of young birds with full hair is basically the same as that of adult birds.

2. Starting from the young birds with neat hair, you can choose small rectangular cages with one bird in each cage. In hot summer, you can start training its water bath.

Training method: In the shade, put the blue-eared kingfisher cage into the basin, and the water level should not be too high at first. Because at first, some young birds in Mao Qi were called timid and refused to take a bath in the water. They should wait patiently and don't rush into the water. They should get used to it. After about 10 minutes, the cage will be hoisted out. If this is repeated several times, the amount of water can be gradually increased. After several attempts, it can basically learn to take a bath.