Chapter 609 (2/2)

The feathers on his back are light lead gray and look a little dirty. Behind his head is a ribbon like crest, like a row of braids scattered behind his head.

They found that they were a little alert, looked up and forgot, but there was still some distance, so they lowered their heads to look for food.

Tang Xiaoxin said curiously, ”what bird is this?”

Looking at the exhibition board next to him, he was surprised: ”it's a crested ibis!?”

In her impression, crested ibis should be covered with light red feathers. It is a very beautiful bird, which looks like Flamingo!

Is it a mistake in your memory?

No, crested ibis. Crested Ibis is red. It should be a red bird! Why do you look so simple?

Qian Keke was surprised and said, ”ah, is it really a crested ibis?”

Tang Xiaoxin pointed to an exhibition board with different feather colors of Crested Ibis and said, ”there seems to be an introduction here!”

Carefully read the exhibition board, which introduces the mystery of the feather color of Crested Ibis!

It turns out that many birds change into different feather colors to attract the attention of the opposite sex during the breeding season.

For example, mandarin ducks and mallard ducks in waterfowl lake!

The female mandarin duck looked at the gray, and the male mandarin duck was dressed in colorful feathers, looking like a striking fireworks in the water.

But in summer, the male mandarin ducks in the zoo seem to have disappeared strangely, leaving only the ordinary female mandarin ducks.

In fact, the male mandarin duck faded its breeding feathers and put on a simple gray women's dress, changing from ”pattern male god” to ”Cinderella” in an instant.

So is the mallard. The male is characterized by the dazzling green on his head. In summer, the green disappears, which is no different from that of the female duck.

Ducks and ducks usually change their breeding feathers around January and start making objects in the wintering area. In June and July, they will fade their beautiful breeding feathers.

For Crested Ibis, black is the color they think is beautiful!

Crested Ibis has a ring-shaped area around its neck, which secretes a black substance during the mating period from March to June.

While bathing in the water, rely on the neck to rub the black substance on the neck and back repeatedly to achieve the effect of coloring.

Just painted, the color of the feather is pure black, and it will gradually turn gray black after drying!

When the feathers change in July and August, the feathers will turn white again, as pure as snow.

And red is actually the color under their wings.

Tang Xiaoxin suddenly said, ”I see!”

He looked back at the Crested Ibis in the exhibition area and just saw a crested ibis sticking its head down and its sharp mouth into the mud.

It seemed that he had found prey, but he didn't catch it. He raised his head and shook his feathers. He pecked again and brought up a splash of water.

It worked this time!

A loach was firmly clamped by the Crested Ibis's sharp mouth from the middle, rolled up and slapped violently. Sometimes it entangled the Crested Ibis's long beak like a snake. The Crested Ibis shook its head left and right to throw the loach, trying to throw it out.

Maybe it was too slippery. It threw it out of its mouth and jumped around on the grass. The Crested Ibis hurried after it, stared at it closely, turned its head around, pecked it from front to foot, and clamped the Loach's Tail from head to tail.

The loach struggled and jumped. I don't know whether it was pinched and poked by the sharp beak. It was too injured or weak. The struggle range became smaller and smaller. Finally, the Crested Ibis shook its beak, lifted it from the beak tip, raised its head, blinked, encouraged its throat twice and swallowed it.