At present, the climate in the north is getting warmer, and various migratory birds have returned one after another and entered the breeding period one after another. During this period, incidents of bird injuries or disorientation also occurred frequently. Lianyungang Forestry Station attaches great importance to this. Station Director Wang personally led a local wildlife conservation volunteer team to go to the wetland protection area, guide the patrol and protection work, and provide a safe and comfortable habitat for various birds living there.

On the afternoon of April 23, when someone was exercising in a local park, he spotted two birds in need of help on the sidewalk in the mountains. After receiving the news, station Director Wang and bird lover, the volunteer of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) Mr. Zhou Chong rushed to the scene immediately. After preliminary identification, they are the young birds of long-tailed tit just out of the nest. They were not injured. They may have just learned to fly and lost their way when exploring the new world.

The rescue personnel judged the scene and transferred the lost baby birds to the nearby birthplace in time. After more than ten minutes, people heard that the mother bird made a sound calling the kids back to the nest, and then the birds flew to the mother's voice and disappeared into the woods.

According to Director Wang, the way they used to rescue wild birds was usually to take them home for breeding. But for these two young birds, after all, the mother bird will take care of them more carefully, so the volunteers now generally choose to rescue at the discovery site and release at the discovery site to ensure that the birds are not injured and the unique calls of adult birds can be heard by young birds.

At the same time, it is understood that in recent years, the comprehensive restoration of wetlands in Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province is proceeding in an orderly manner, and the ecological environment of the protected areas has been increasingly optimized. There are more and more birds perching there, and the number of illegal poaching birds has correspondingly become less and less.

The long-tailed tit or long-tailed bushtit (Aegithalos caudatus), occasionally referred to as the silver-throated tit or silver-throated dasher, is a common bird found throughout Europe and the Palearctic. The genus name Aegithalos was a term used by Aristotle for some European tits, including the long-tailed tit. Globally, the species is common throughout its range, only becoming scarce at the edge of the distribution. The IUCN, BirdLife International and The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) all list the long-tailed tit as a ‘species of least concern’, currently under little or no threat and reasonable abundant.

The protection of this species should still be taken seriously, because the long-tailed tit is a natural "pesticide", pine caterpillar, larch sheath moth, moth, inchworm and other forests pests are all foods of the bird. The long-tailed tit is beneficial to the stable development of agriculture, food security, plant protection and forest protection.

(Photo credit: Zhou Chong)

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By / Maggie, Jin Zhihao