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Owlet-nightjar
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Long Valley and Bird Flu 塱原與禽流感
« on: Jan 30th, 2004, 9:17pm » |
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The action of the government to close Mai Po Nature Reserve for an indefinite period have touched the nerve of HK citizens.
This evening I met a couple of farmers in Long Valley, they are on the board of Ku Tung Vegetable Farmers Association.
After hearing of the closure of Mai Po Nature Reserve, they are very concerned about the danger of Bird Flu at Long Valley.
Their worry is the farmers or visitors to Long Valley might get a chance to catch the bird flu.
As we all know that Long Valley is another place like urban parks where people and birds might meet.
The farmers have invited journalists to Long Valley, hoping to air their concern on the issue.
They are keen to talk to any other interested parties about the avian flu situation.
It seems that this our chance to keep up a dialogue with the worried farmers in Long Valley and maintain understanding of each others views.
If we go to Long Valley in the next few weeks, we may need to be sensitive about the bird flu issue.
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Re: Long Valley and Bird Flu
« Reply #1 on: Jan 30th, 2004, 9:57pm » |
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... and the mist net issue as well!
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Re: Long Valley and Bird Flu
« Reply #3 on: Mar 3rd, 2004, 9:39pm » |
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I think the farmers should understand what the birds are doing in their field before 'clearing' the birds from their fields. The birds remove a great number of insects from their fields everyday.
The following photos were taken in one of the vegetable fields in Long Valley on 14.12.03.
http://kite.center.kl.edu.tw/vbb/attachment.php?s=3d0a8d4e808a95e7912d4f 6e95d34344&postid=89547
http://kite.center.kl.edu.tw/vbb/attachment.php?s=3d0a8d4e808a95e7912d4f 6e95d34344&postid=89550
Long Valley 塱原
14/12/2003
The first photo was taken at 2:46pm and the second one was taken at 2:48pm for the same Olive-backed Pipit. It caught 2 bugs within 2 minutes and ate both.
If the birds are 'cleared' from the fields, the number of insects will suddenly increase.
Firstly insects can be carriers of infectious diseases and impose health hazards to human beings; secondly what will the enormous number of insects do to the crops of the farmers?
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Re: Long Valley and Bird Flu
« Reply #4 on: Mar 4th, 2004, 8:06pm » |
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Are this bird is Richard's Pipit or Olive -Backed Pipit
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Re: Long Valley and Bird Flu
« Reply #5 on: Mar 4th, 2004, 9:32pm » |
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Olive -Backed Pipit 
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Re: Long Valley and Bird Flu
« Reply #6 on: Mar 4th, 2004, 10:02pm » |
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on Mar 3rd, 2004, 9:39pm, cywong wrote:If the birds are 'cleared' from the fields, the number of insects will suddenly increase.
Firstly insects can be carriers of infectious diseases and impose health hazards to human beings; secondly what will the enormous number of insects do to the crops of the farmers?
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上個世紀五十年代中國大陸已受過教訓:
http://www2.cnsh.mlc.edu.tw/std/PAGE_3.html
敲鑼打鼓殺麻雀
在大陸的農村, 有一年秋天, 稻穀成熟的時候, 農民正歡天喜地要收割, 沒想到飛來好多麻雀, 在田裡爭啄稻穗上金黃的穀粒, 農民看了又心痛又生氣. 村子裡的農民 都 跑 到田裡趕麻雀. 可是東邊田邊一趕, 麻雀又飛到西邊田邊, 哪裡趕的走呢? 沒法子, 農民就開了一個會,專門商量趕麻雀的方法. 他們商量了很久, 終於想出了對付麻雀的 妙計.
一天早上, 天還沒亮呢, 村裡突然響起驚天動地的鑼鼓聲."咚咚嗆,咚咚嗆......" 滿山遍野都響起會震聾耳朵的巨響. 原來農民知道麻雀膽子最小, 就聯絡全村村民在同一時間, 全部都出來敲鑼打鼓, 沒有鑼鼓的,打大鐵鍋也可以, 使得平靜的村莊突然吵鬧得像要著火一般. 麻雀還沒睡醒, 就被嚇得驚飛起來. 牠們飛到東邊, 東邊鑼鼓響; 飛到西邊,西邊鑼鼓也響, 簡直沒有一個可以安靜休息的地方. 鑼鼓不停的敲, 噪音不斷的鬧, 可憐的麻雀,滿天亂飛,最後, 一隻隻都累昏了由半空中掉下來,被農民捉住, 綁成一串串. 農民得到了大勝利！他們殺光所有的麻雀, 打了了一頓大牙祭. 那年秋天,田裡靜悄悄的, 一隻麻雀的叫聲都聽不到 , 更沒有任何鳥類來啄食田裡的稻穀了 .
在這年的豐收之後, 第二年, 田裡忽然飛來像烏雲一般濃密的蝗蟲群, "沙沙沙......" 把田裡的稻子吃了個精光. 迷信的農民說: "這是麻雀的鬼魂變成蝗蟲來報仇......"
村子裡, 不斷的鬧蝗災,接連都是荒年......
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