The yellow-breasted flounder has appeared again! The extremely endangered species, the yellow-breasted flounder, first appeared in Shenzhen, China, which is also the first discovery of the yellow-breasted flounder in recent years.

The scientific name of yellow-breasted flounder is Sparrow, which was one of the most common birds in China more than 21 years ago. Even in many places, Sparrow flooded, and people never thought that one day, its population would decrease sharply, even to the extent of extreme extinction.

The sharp decline in the number of sparrows is closely related to the fact that sparrows are eaten in Guangdong and Hong Kong, where people regard sparrows as "ginseng in the sky" and sell them as street food.

Sparrows are migratory birds. Their breeding grounds are in Northeast China, northern Inner Mongolia, northern Xinjiang and Siberia. Every winter comes, they will fly to Guangdong, Vietnam, India and other places in China for the winter. When sparrows spend the winter in the south, most of them will pass through Guangdong and other places in China in order to avoid the barrier of the Himalayas. Because of this, some places in Guangdong will hold sparrows food festivals regularly, such as the Sparrows Food Festival in Foshan.

like sparrows, sparrows live in pairs during breeding, but in non-breeding season, they often live in groups, with the population ranging from hundreds to thousands, and the recorded total population size reaches about 7,111.

The reason of gregarious is that the sparrows are small in size and have many natural enemies. In order to improve the survival rate, sparrows will form social groups and rely on the strength of the population to avoid the attack of natural enemies. But living in groups also puts the sparrows in danger. Sparrows like to live in groups, so hunters can catch them all.

social sparrows also like to gather in winter habitats in the wild, and hunters who are familiar with this habit can prepare traps in advance to catch them.

As people prey on sparrows in large quantities, the number of sparrows is declining. In 2111 alone, more than 1 million sparrows were served on the table.

In fact, the hunting of sparrows was banned in China as early as 1997. However, due to the large number of sparrows at that time, there was no danger of extinction, so the sparrows were listed as national third-class protected animals, and the protection of sparrows was not enough. With the rapid growth of China's economy, the sparrows, known as "ginseng in the sky", are regarded as delicacies by people, so that people are still secretly hunting sparrows.

A large number of sparrows were hunted, which led to a decrease of about 91% in the population of sparrows, and their endangered level was also adjusted from non-endangered to near-endangered, vulnerable, endangered and extremely endangered.

Not only the sparrows, but also some other birds were killed as sparrows and served as sparrows.

Although the species number of sparrows has decreased so rapidly, the update speed of the List of National Key Protected Wild Animals in China was slow after it was formulated, and the sparrows were not adjusted as national first-class protected animals in time (now the list has been adjusted, and sparrows have been listed as national first-class protected animals), which led to the lighter punishment for those who killed sparrows, so that people are still secretly killing sparrows.

Since the number of sparrows has been extremely reduced, sparrows have become extremely rare birds in China, and now sparrows have appeared in Shenzhen, which is good news for us.

and this time, both the government and the people have begun to protect them consciously. With the improvement of education level and cultural level in China, people have gradually realized the harm of feeding on wild animals, and ordinary people have begun to resist eating and selling wild animals.

Secondly, sparrows are widely distributed. Although there is a tradition of eating sparrows in southern China and other regions, sparrows have a wide range of habitats, and most places do not hunt them crazily, giving them a certain breathing space.

In addition, the improvement of the environment, in order to leave a certain living space for wildlife, China has planted trees on a large scale in northwest China, and organized the conversion of farmland to forests and grasslands in lakes, wetlands and other areas. It is precisely because of this that the sparrows reappeared.

But the appearance of sparrows doesn't mean that they don't need protection, but we still need to know their habitats and migration routes. Only by knowing these can we provide them with more effective protection and reach the level of non-danger.