However, these winter resident birds do not hibernate and therefore require a large amount of food. If they devour all of human food or other crops, they indirectly harm people's interests.
Therefore, the attitude of people in the mountains towards birds is ambiguous and unclear.
Generally, there is no deliberate killing, but also no blind indulgence.
For rarer birds, rangers not only cannot hunt them, but also have a duty to protect them.
Just like the great bustard I encountered in Ziwu Ridge.
Anyone who gets hunted down by a great bustard will face a life sentence in jail.
There are also some birds that, although they do not need protection and are not rare, are generally not hunted by people, such as owls and kestrels.
Because their diet consists mainly of various rodents and small birds, they do not conflict with humans and even indirectly protect human interests to some extent.
The rest of the birds will depend on what they eat.
Birds that eat insects are also not hunted by people in the mountains.
The only birds that eat grains or grass seeds are hunted by humans every year.
At best, they would use slingshots, bird traps, or even house cats to hunt them.
In severe cases, this could involve being logged out of the internet or poisoned.
Poisoning involves directly spraying pesticides.
In the past, pesticides were quite toxic. They were usually mixed with seeds and would decompose over a growing season, by which time they were basically completely decomposed.
but……
That's not absolute.
Because pesticide residues harmed so many people, the use of many highly toxic pesticides was later abolished.
In addition to the potential harm to human health from pesticide residues, the use of pesticides can also have a significant impact on the surrounding ecosystem.
For example, if rodents and birds in the field eat poisonous seeds, they will die in the ground. Weasels or large birds that feed on them will also die from the poison, thus forming a huge chain of poisonous deaths.
This situation persisted until less toxic pesticides were gradually developed, which effectively solved the problem. For many years in between, the presence of pesticides led to the complete extinction of many bird species in the mountains.
If pesticides are considered chemical or biological harm, then netting is a form of physical slaughter.
A hanging net is a very fine net that is suspended along the flight path of birds.
Because birds generally have poor eyesight, they may be able to see something that is constantly moving, but they cannot see very fine nets at high speeds and often crash into them and get caught.
In their panic, they will struggle harder and harder until they are finally bound tightly, becoming a dried-up corpse on the internet.
In later years, this kind of online posting became illegal, but it still persisted despite repeated bans.
The reason is simple: the relevant departments cannot determine the motives behind posting on the internet.
Many people who set up nets believe that they are only using the nets to isolate their own land, not to catch birds, so they bear little responsibility.
In the end, the worst that can happen is that the net is removed, and generally there will be no punishment.
In this day and age, there is no regulation on netting, and often the law has not yet recognized the stage where birds need protection. In addition, birds are generally very abundant in this era, and if they are not protected, there will be too many of them to go anywhere.
Seeing that Wang Tianxiao was determined, Liu Yuan nodded and said, "Alright, let's hang it up and see. But the whole mountain is so big, how do you plan to stop it?"
Wang Tianxiao smiled and said, "I have my own way."
Unlike later generations with advanced industrial production, the productivity of this era was weak, making it extremely difficult to find large-scale bird nets. Therefore, it was impossible to use traditional methods of netting birds, where nets could be hundreds of meters long.
The method Wang Tianxiao used was less about hanging nets and more about laying them out.
It looks more like a trap for birds.
Since there was no place in town that sold these nets, Wang Tianxiao planned to go to the city again tomorrow to look for them, and also deliver the wild animals to the Wenyuan Hotel.
In the afternoon, he and the others went to the field to check and found that the white winter cuckoos were indeed annoying, taking advantage of their agility to play a game of chase with people.
Although some of the slower ones were caught and killed by the dogs.
Catching birds is not an easy task for dogs, but mountain dogs run very fast, and there are so many birds that they often take off together when startled, affecting each other's takeoff speed, which gives the dogs an opportunity to catch them.
Because Dafeng was injured last time and hasn't fully recovered yet, he was kept at the depot and not allowed to leave. Only Dahei and Aying were running around outside.
The two dogs seemed to have developed a subtle bond, sniffing each other's rear ends. Wang Tianxiao estimated that it wouldn't be long before the station had a second-generation dog.
The prosperity of his dog population was something he was very happy to see.
Just like Lu Ding's prosperity.
Lying on the kang (a heated brick bed) that night, Li Yali and I chatted about what had happened recently. As we talked, we got to the topic of our son's one-month celebration.
My son, Wang Peng, is twenty-seven days old today, and he will be a month old in three days.
In Qingcheng, the celebration of a child's full moon is extremely grand, almost on par with weddings and funerals, or even, to put it bluntly, more grand than a daughter's wedding.
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