Chapter 156: Bird Butcher
Brother Nan was holding a monocular telescope in his hand, squinting one eye and looking around at the sky.
The hair fluttered in the breeze like a radar.
Suddenly, Daimao pointed to a location, and Brother Nan's monocular telescope was also aimed in that direction.
"Come here, take a look!" Brother Nan nudged Li Mu with his elbow and handed him the telescope.
"I can see clearly."
"Oh."
Brother Nan knew that if he continued to ask, the bird 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.
"what?"
Brother Nan exclaimed, a little unbelieving, "Why is it so small? Did it kill all the birds in this tree?"
Li Mu didn't say anything.
The bird had flown close to the tree where the dead birds were hanging.
Brother Nan fell silent, even his breathing became slow, and he stared without blinking.
The forest was silent for a moment, with only the fluttering of the bird's wings and the painful cry of the sparrow under its claws.
The bird was very alert 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, when it found nothing unusual, it flapped its wings, gradually flew higher, and then suddenly dived towards a branch.
When you are about to hit the sharp thorns on the branch, block the sparrow in front of you with your claws.
"puff!"
"grumble!"
The sound of spikes piercing flesh and the screams of sparrows sounded almost simultaneously.
The bird stood firmly on the branch, looking at the sparrow whose body was pierced by the sharp thorns.
There was no expression on the bird's face, but Li Mu saw excitement in its black eyes.
It seems that it hunts not for eating, but just to listen to the screams and enjoy the process of its prey struggling and dying bit by bit.
The sparrow's struggling strength and screams gradually became weaker, and the excitement in the bird's eyes reached its peak.
Suddenly, the bird noticed something unusual behind it, turned its head sharply, and found a little leopard cat appeared behind it.
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The bird's eyes suddenly became panicked, and it spread its wings and was about to fly away.
Unfortunately it was too late.
If a cat walks up behind you silently, there is no possibility of escape.
"Gah!"
It was still a bird's song, but it was the bird itself that was singing.
The bird that had been killing everywhere in this woods for five days now became the cat's prey.
"Yogurt is so handsome!" Brother Nan got up from the bushes and ran towards the thorn tree.
The kitten was already squatting under the tree, holding a struggling bird with its wings flapping in its mouth.
Seeing Li Mu and Brother Nan coming over, the cat lowered its head and put the bird on the ground. Before the bird could react, one of its claws was already on its body.
The kitten didn't look big, and its claws were not very strong, but no matter how the bird struggled, it could not escape from the cat's claws.
Brother Nan walked over to the kitten and squatted down, looking at the ferocious bird curiously. "It's so small and looks like a sparrow, but I didn't expect it to be so ferocious!"
If he hadn't just seen with his own eyes this bird impaling a sparrow alive on a sharp thorn, Brother Nan would never have believed that this bird was the murderer of the bird corpses all over the tree.
Brother Nan watched for a while, then reached out to touch the bird under the cat's claws. Unexpectedly, the bird was indeed ferocious. It continued to act ferociously even after being caught, pecking at his outstretched fingers with its eagle-like beak.
"Oh! You're still crooked!" Brother Nan reacted quickly and dodged it. In surprise, he uttered something in dialect.
Seeing this, the kitten raised its little paw and threw a meow punch.
"state!"
The bird's body staggered forward suddenly and fell to the ground. It felt dizzy and before it could react, the cat's claws pressed down on it again.
"Li Mutou, what is this bird?" Brother Nan squatted on the ground and looked up at Li Mu.
"It's a wedge-tailed shrike."
"Wedge-tailed Shrike?"
"Crab-flavored scratch?" Brother Nan and the kitten's voices sounded at the same time.
"Yes, you just said it was the size of a finch, because this bird belongs to the genus Shrike of the family Shrike, and is classified in the order Passeriformes."
Li Mu walked over to the shrike and squatted down. "Look at its beak and claws."
Brother Nan and the kitten looked down at the same time.
"Little golden eagle!" The cat answered first.
"It looks like a smaller version of an eagle's beak and claws." Brother Nan also said.
"That's about right. That's why it has another nickname: the raptor among birds, the butcher among birds."
"Butcher among birds?"
Brother Nan looked up at the bird carcasses hanging all over the treetops and said, "Who named this? It's so fitting!"
Li Mu stared at the shrike under the cat's claws.
There are many species of shrikes, with dozens of species around the world, and the wedge-tailed shrike in front of us is the largest of them.
Their body length is generally around 25 cm, and larger ones can grow to more than 30 cm. The feathers on their bodies are gray on the upper body, the feathers on the head and neck are grayish white, and the flight feathers on the tail and wings are black.
All shrikes have one common feature that makes them recognizable at a glance, and that is their eyes. A black line extends from the eyes to the top of the head, as if they are wearing a black eye patch.
Although this bird is not large in size, it is ferocious and cruel by nature. It likes to pierce its prey on thorny trees or brambles and tear it apart before eating.
Sometimes people don't know that when they see many birds, mice, lizards or other insects strung on thorny trees in the wild and being dried, they think it is cruel and scary, and even suspect that there are ghosts. In fact, it is all done by this tree.
Therefore, due to its small size, it is called a small bird of prey.
However, even though it cries, the main reason is that the trees in this forest are sparse and not tall, and are only inhabited by small birds such as sparrows, which are common in the mountains. This gives it the opportunity to wreak havoc.
If it had gone deeper into the mountains, it would have become food for real birds of prey.
"The shrike was actually very famous in ancient times."
"How did you become famous?" Brother Nan moved his gaze down from the treetops and looked at Li Mu.
"Do you know the song of the East-Flying Shrike?"
Brother Nan didn't say anything, he just looked at Li Mu as if he was a fool.
The cat also tilted its head, eyes full of confusion.
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Li Mu felt it necessary to launch a literacy campaign in the courtyard.
"The shrike flies east and the swallow flies west, the Yellow Lady and the Weaver Girl meet each other."
"oh oh!"
Brother Nan suddenly seemed to understand something, "We parted ways, I know that!"
"Then what you just did."
Li Mu looked at Brother Nan's kind smile and immediately changed the subject, "The shrike in the poem is talking about this one."
“Oh.” Brother Nan was obviously more interested in the shrike on the ground. He pointed at it and said, “Hurry up and interrogate it.”
Li Mu looked down at the shrike, and the shrike also looked at him with a pair of dark eyes.
"You string your prey on branches. This is your life habit. I understand. But you only have one bird. Why do you kill so many?"
Li Mu paused and said, "Don't talk about 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'm not mistaken, you will leave in the next two days, right?"
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The Shrike's dark eyes rolled. "You've already said it. What else can I say?"
"I just want to know, you're only staying here for a few days, why do you want to kill so many birds? You can't eat them all, and you can't take them away."
The Shrike looked at the two-legged beast in front of him and felt a sense of closeness to him. He shook his head to suppress the feeling and asked, "Why should I tell you?"
"state!"
Another Meowth 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)
