There are two kinds of acacia: acacia tremella and acacia Anthurium, which are distributed in China and live in the Yangtze River basin and the vast area south of the Yangtze River. The two species are similar in appearance.
Red-billed lovebirds are deeply loved by people because of their gorgeous feathers, lively movements, graceful posture and sweet songs. But compared with other thrush songbirds, their songs are monotonous and difficult to imitate, so bird breeders multiply their feathers.
Acacia birds are vigorous and agile, and their songs are elegant, clear, changeable and beautiful; With beautiful feathers, it is a well-known ornamental cage bird at home and abroad. In the cage, this kind of bird is very active, rarely stands still, and often jumps up and down. Only when singing happily, or when male and female birds are tidying their feathers with each other, will they have a rest.
In the breeding season, the male bird's song is particularly pleasant to listen to and very popular, so people like to raise it, and its export sales are very large every year; Birds eating insects are beneficial to farmers and should not be caught; In order to make rational use of it, it is necessary to raise and breed artificially to meet the requirements.
Love birds, who has just arrived, is easily frightened. In order to avoid broken mouths and damaged feathers, we should "tie them up" at the beginning, then put them in cages or cages with cages, lure them with "soft food" like snacks and feed them to fruits. After the bird recognizes the food, it will gradually turn into powder and feed it with water.
People should approach slowly. First, open some cages (door curtains) and feed them to flour worms, corn borer larvae and so on. Then open all the cages and release the "binding arm" when people can catch bugs. Acacia birds have short intestines and fast digestion, so their feces are thick and soft. So clean the bottom of the cage every 2 ~ 3 days and bathe the birds.
In order to prevent yourself from taking a bath, you have to use a small water tank, otherwise it will pollute the drinking water. In addition, birds will be thirsty after splashing water dry. Always check whether the cage is damaged, and pay special attention when stringing cages or taking them out by hand, because love birds with red mouth is agile and good at taking advantage of loopholes to escape.
Acacia birds generally don't imitate other birds, but only listen to their own mouths. Can be raised in pairs, male and female snuggle, feather management, intimacy.
Love birds, who has just arrived, is easily frightened. In order to avoid broken mouths and damaged feathers, we should "tie them up" at the beginning, then put them in cages or cages with cages, lure them with "soft food" like snacks and feed them to fruits. After the bird recognizes the food, it will gradually turn into powder and feed it with water.
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Since ancient times, there have been many anecdotes about love birds. You can see its loyalty to love from its name. So many literati write love poems with love birds as the theme. There is such a poem in Bai Juyi's famous Song of Eternal Sorrow: "We hope to fly in the sky, two birds grow together on the ground with one wing, two branches of a tree." . "love birds" in the poem refers to love birds with a red mouth.
There are two kinds of love birds, one is love birds with red beak, and the other is love birds with tremella, both of which are famous ornamental cages in China. Among them, the red-billed lovebird, also known as "love birds", is not only a gift for ancient wedding activities, but also an object that flower and bird painters in past dynasties like to depict.
The name "love birds" has a long history. Since ancient times, there have been many legends and stories about love birds. People named it "love birds" because this kind of bird likes to move in pairs. Especially the red-billed lovebirds, males and females are always in pairs, loving each other, like young couples.
Every breeding season, it seems a little shy, quietly hiding in a quiet place, inseparable from each other, snuggling together, combing each other's feathers and making all kinds of intimate movements, just like lovers in love. It is said that when a male bird marries a female bird, the red-billed lovebird will accompany her for life. If one bird dies, the other will be silent, unhappy or even eat or drink, and finally die of double suicide.
Although this kind of thing usually happens in captivity, it is rare in the wild, but people think it died of lovesickness, so it is called "lovesickness", and they think they are typical representatives of birds loyal to love.
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