Secretary Birds
from 自然英语
This bird looks like it was a normal stork but someone decorated it and dressed it up. The name of this bird also has a funny meaning behind it. The secretary bird can be found in the savannas of Africa and likes to be in places with spread out acacia trees. They spend most of their time hunting for prey and go back to their trees to roost. The bird's diet includes rodents, insects, frogs, lizards, small mammals, and they especially like snakes. The birds’ latin name is sagittarius serpentarius which means “the archer of snakes”. Since the secretary bird is quite a large bird they don’t have any natural predators. Other birds like crows and ravens steal their eggs to eat. Secretary birds are monogamous meaning they have the same mating partner for life. The secretary birds elaborate features are important to their mating ritual, the birds attract mates by doing aerial displays where they fly up and down. The birds name has a funny meaning behind it, it’s thought that it's called the secretary bird because secretaries used to tuck pens in their hair and it resembles the bird's feathers. The bird has a lifespan of around 15 years and has grey plumage all around its body but has a black tail and legs. Its eyes are yellow and it has black feathers resembling quills around it’s head. This bird also has feathers around its eyes that resemble eye lashes. For wild Suzhou I’m palm tree and thank you for listening.
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