Chapter 156 The Butcher Among Birds
Brother Nan held a monocular telescope in his hand, squinted one eye, and looked around at the sky.
The stupid hair swayed in the breeze, like a radar.
Suddenly, Dai Mao pointed to a location, and Brother Nan's monocular was also pointed in that direction.
"Come on, come on, take a look!" Brother Nan touched Li Mu with his elbow and handed him the telescope in his hand.
"I can see clearly."
"oh."
Brother Nan knew that if he kept asking, he would definitely say that this was also a kind of mysterious power, so he continued to raise the telescope and look at the bird.
The bird flew closer and closer, becoming extremely clear in the telescope.
"Huh?"
Brother Nan exclaimed, somewhat disbelieving, "Why is it so small? Did it kill all the birds in this tree?"
Li Mu said nothing.
The bird had flown close to the tree covered with bird carcasses.
Brother Nan didn't make any sound, even his breathing became gentle, and he stared without blinking.
The forest fell silent for a moment, except for the flapping wings of the bird and the painful cry of the sparrow under its talons.
The bird was very vigilant and did not land on the tree immediately. Instead, it hovered in front of the tree and turned its head to look around.
After a while, after finding nothing unusual, he flapped his wings, gradually flew higher, and then swooped down toward a branch.
When you are about to hit the sharp thorns on the branch, block the sparrow under your paws in front of you.
"puff!"
"grumble!"
The sound of spikes penetrating flesh and the screams of sparrows sounded almost simultaneously.
The bird stood firmly on the branch, looking at the sparrow with sharp thorns piercing its body.
There was no expression on the bird's face, but Li Mu could see excitement in the bird's dark eyes.
It doesn't seem to hunt for food, but just to listen to its screams and enjoy the process of its prey struggling to die bit by bit.
The strength of the sparrow's struggle and screams gradually became smaller, and the excitement in the bird's eyes reached its peak.
Suddenly, the bird noticed something unusual behind it, turned its head suddenly, and found a small ocelot appearing behind it.
! !
The bird's eyes instantly became panicked, and it opened its wings and was about to fly away.
Unfortunately it was too late.
When a cat silently walks up behind you, there is no possibility of escape.
"Gah!"
It was still a bird call, but it was replaced by the bird itself.
The birds that had been killing birds in this forest for five days now became the prey of cats.
"Yoghurt is so handsome!" Brother Nan got up from the bush and ran towards the thorn tree.
The kitten was already squatting under the tree, holding a struggling bird with flapping wings in its mouth.
Seeing Li Mu and Brother Nan coming over, the cat lowered his head and put the bird on the ground. Before the bird could react, a paw was already on it.
The kitten looked small, and its claws were not wide, but no matter how hard the bird struggled, it could not escape from the cat's claws.
Brother Nan walked up to the kitten and squatted down, looking at the ferocious bird curiously, "It's so big and looks like a sparrow, but I didn't expect it to be so ferocious!"
If he hadn't just witnessed this bird impaling sparrows alive on the spikes, Brother Nan would never have believed that this bird was the murderer of the tree full of bird corpses.
Brother Nan watched for a while, then stretched out his hand to touch the bird under the cat's claws. Unexpectedly, the bird was indeed ferocious, and even after being caught, it still showed off its ferocity, using its beak like an eagle's beak to peck the outstretched fingers.
"Oh! You're still crooked!" Brother Nan reacted quickly and hid. In surprise, a dialect popped out of his mouth.
Seeing this, the kitten raised its little paw and struck a meow punch.
"state!"
Bird's body suddenly staggered forward and fell to the ground. He felt dizzy. Before he could react, the cat's paw pressed down on him again.
"Li Mu, what kind of bird is this?" Brother Nan squatted on the ground and looked up at Li Mu.
"This is a wedge-tailed shrike."
"Wedge-tailed Shrike?"
"Crab flavor Bo Nao?" Brother Nan and Xiaomao's voices sounded at the same time.
"Yes, you just said that it is the size of a sparrow, because this bird is a genus of the family Shrike and belongs to the order Passeriformes."
Li Mu walked to the shrike and squatted down, "Look at its beak and claws."
Brother Nan and Xiaomao looked down at the same time.
"Little golden eagle!" Cat answered first.
"It's like a miniature version of an eagle's beak and talons." Brother Nan also said.
"Absolutely, that's why it has another title, it's a bird of prey and a butcher of birds."
"The Butcher of Birds?"
Brother Nan raised his head and glanced at the bird carcasses hanging on the tree crown, "Who did it? It's so appropriate!"
Li Mu stared at the shrike under the cat's paws.
There are many types of shrike, with dozens of species in the world, and the wedge-tailed shrike in front of you is the largest among the shrike.
Their body length is generally about 25 centimeters, and larger ones can grow to more than 30 centimeters. Their upper body feathers are gray, the hair on their head and neck is gray-white, and the flight feathers on their tail and wings are black.
All shrikes also have a common feature that makes them instantly recognizable, and that is their eyes. A black stripe extends from the eyes to the top of the head, as if they are wearing a black eye patch.
Although this bird is small in size, it is ferocious and cruel by nature. It likes to pierce its prey on thorny trees or thorns and tear it apart to eat.
Sometimes people don’t know that when they see many birds, mice, lizards or other insects hanging on thorny trees in the wild, all dried up in the sun, they feel cruel and frightened, and even wonder if there is a ghost, but in fact it is all done by it. .
For this reason, it is called a small raptor due to its small size.
However, the main reason for the callback is that the trees in this forest are sparse and not tall. The only thing that lives in this forest is some common birds such as sparrows in the mountains. This is where it has the opportunity to show off its evil deeds.
If we went deeper into the mountains, it would have become the food of real raptors.
"The shrike was actually very famous in ancient times."
"Why are you famous?" Brother Nan moved his gaze down from the tree crown and looked at Li Mu.
"Do you know the song of the East Flying Shrike?"
Brother Nan didn't speak, just looked at Li Mu as if he were a fool.
The cat also tilted its head, eyes full of confusion.
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Li Mu felt that it was necessary to launch a literacy campaign in the courtyard.
"Shrike flies in the east and swallows fly in the west. We meet when Huang Gu is the weaver girl."
"oh oh!"
Brother Nan instantly looked like he suddenly understood, "Lao Yan will be separated, I know this!"
"Then what you just did."
Li Mu looked at Brother Nan's heshan smile and immediately changed the topic, "That's what the shrike in this poem is talking about."
"Oh." Brother Nan was obviously more interested in the shrike on the ground, pointing at it, "Hurry up and interrogate it."
Li Mu lowered his head and looked at the shrike, who also looked at him with a pair of dark eyes.
"You string prey on branches. This is your living habit. I understand, but you only have one bird, why do you kill so many?"
Li Mu paused as he spoke, "Not to mention storing food. You are a migratory bird. You flew here five days ago. This is just a place for you to stop and rest temporarily. If I am not wrong, you will leave in the next two days. Right?"
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Shrike's dark eyes rolled around, "You've already said it, what else can I say?"
"I just want to know, if you only stay here for a few days, why do you kill so many birds? You can neither eat them all nor take them away."
Shrike looked at the two-legged beast in front of him and felt a sense of closeness to him. He shook his head and suppressed the feeling, "Why should I tell you?"
"state!"
Another meow punch hit it.
"Gah!"
The shrike screamed in pain, raised its head with difficulty, and looked at the kitten that caught it.
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(End of this chapter)