Chapter 85
My Ranch Chapter 85
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Translated by NoobTrans
“You said this is a bald eagle? Don’t lie to me, I may have studied less but I have seen a bald eagle, er, in pictures, the bald eagle is very handsome, look at this thing, isn’t it ugly?” Jiang Hai said to Bell while looking at the ugly bird .
“It’s really a bald eagle, the national bird of the US . Our squadron accidentally knocked down a nest . This is the thing in the nest . Although we sent the nest back later, we were still given a penalty . ” Hearing Jiang Hai’s words, Bell here said helplessly . After hearing his words, Jiang Hai couldn’t help but look at the bird in front of him . Is this really the national bird of the US?
“But this time, they should have already migrated . Why is there a baby bird here?” Robbins asked while touching his chin .
This animal has the same status as pandas in China . Not to mention killing, buying and selling these animals, just destroying their place of residence is not a small crime . Look at Bell, They once knocked down a bird’s nest like this one too .
But as Robbins said, this kind of bird should not appear here this season .
Bald eagles, although they will nest in rock walls and forests, if they live adjacent to water, they will not move anymore and will become resident birds, but even though that’s the case, these eagles will still migrate when they should migrate, especially in the northern regions .
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More than 95% of the Bald Eagles in the south will become resident birds, but in the north, most of the Bald Eagles will become migratory birds, and will fly away in the coldest months and will only return come spring .
So Robbins felt it is a bit strange, these birds should have migrated already right? Why is there still a nest and a baby bird it? This made Robbins, the old man here, a little puzzled .
This creature, the Bald Eagle, once faced the threat of extinction, but it was not because of the killing of human beings that exterminated them . After all, their main habitat is in the US and as the national bird of the US, Americans rarely go kill them .
Though what caused them to almost be extinct once was still because of humans . With the increase in fisheries and logging, their habitats declined, and the most important thing is because it lives at the top of the food chain . When humans use poisons such as pesticides, they will eventually end up in their bodies .
In 1782, there were 100,000 bald eagles in the United States but shortly after the end of World War II, in 1963, there were only 417 pairs of bald eagles in the world .
However, in the past few years, the bald eagles have been deleted from the list of 48 endangered animals in the United States, and gradually recovered their vitality . By 2003, the number had returned to 76,000 from no more than a hundred pairs .
Although it is still not as good as the 100,000 in its heyday, it is not bad .
Another factor leading to the near extinction of this bird is that this bird’s reproductive ability is very weak, this bird only produces two eggs a year .
However, two adult bald eagles will not be produced, since only one will survive . The one born first will eat the one born later as food . This means that a pair of healthy white-headed sea eagles Carved couples will only have one child a year .
It takes at least five years for a sea eagle to grow up . Five years is not too much for a bald eagle that can live for thirty years .
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But it is far less than the number of deaths, so this is also one of the reasons that led to their almost extinction .
“I think this bird is probably the first bird to hatch . Before the winter came, the parents had already left, or were killed, and after it hatched, it ate the other one and survived until now . ” Robbins slowly analyzed while looking at the bird, and after hearing his words, Jiang Hai couldn’t help but look at the bird in a new light, this ugly bird isn’t a simple little guy, he didn’t expect it to be a cruel and hard-working person, and didn’t even let his brother go .
“Can I raise him then?” Jiang Hai said after listening for a while and thinking about it .
“It’s up to you, boss, although this bird is a first-class protected bird under the law, but as long as you don’t sell or kill it, no one will bother you . Of course, you better go to the police station and report it . ” Robbins said as he shrugged his shoulders after he heard Jiang Hai’s words . Jiang Hai also suddenly became happy when he heard his words . Now he has no thoughts of hunting again .
Putting the bird in his arms, he urged Robbins and Bell to leave with him .
As Robbins said, this woodland here doesn’t have much so it isn’t fun . When there is time, Jiang Hai can go to Alaska or other places to hunt . Now that he has tasted the joy of hunting he feels that those places are fun, unlike here but it’s more important to take care of the Bald eagle first .
As a wealthy old man, *cough* , wealthy young man, it is inevitable to have an eagle and a dog . Before, Jiang Hai had a dog, but there is no eagle . Now, God gave him one . If he didn’t take this blessing, then he will be condemned .
Riding on a snowmobile, Jiang Hai returned quickly to his estate with Robbins and Bell .
After simply handling other things in the manor, Jiang Hai and the others drove to the police station in the town .
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The police station in the town actually has a lot of responsibilities . Unlike those in big cities . That’s why the police in the town look more shining than the police in those big cities .
However, these police officers, when they saw Jiang Hai, stood up oozing with politeness(1) . After all, these guys owed Jiang Hai a favor . If it were not for Jiang Hai’s mercy, they could not even keep their jobs .
So after seeing Jiang Hai coming, these policemen showed great enthusiasm . The policewoman who interrogated him last time even took the initiative to give him a cup of coffee, but unfortunately, Jiang Hai was not interested . Compared to coffee, he prefers to drink milk, just like at home, he only drinks beer or milk, and hardly touches coffee, so he does not know whether the coffee is good or not, he just came to ask about adopting the eagle .
The current chief of the police station, Morris Smith, personally came over to help Jiang Hai handle the things he needed to do .
When he learned that Jiang Hai had picked up an abandoned bald eagle in his own forest, and wanted to adopt it, the old man started flattering and said that Jiang Hai had so much love and the like while smiling too much .
The rest of the matter was very simple . After calling the pet center, they made a personal inspection of the bird and determined that the bird had no problems other than some malnutrition . The police station also awarded Jiang Hai a permit to raise wild animals . Only with this thing will he not be reported by others .
After everything was done, Jiang Hai rejected the proposal of Morris Smith to have dinner together, and returned home with Robbins and Bell . After going back, Jiang Hai gave the bird a bath, okay, even after taking a bath it still looked ugly, after that he fed it with a lot of premium beef, along with a drop of his blood .
Originally, after getting on Jiang Hai’s hand, the little eagle has been looking around with horrified eyes, and his body was trembling constantly, for fear that these huge behemoth, Jiang Hai, will eat it, but after ingesting Jiang Hai’s blood, it calmed down, and there was a trace of intelligence in his eyes . After rubbing his head on Jiang Hai’s hand, he fell asleep on Jiang Hai’s bed .
Jiang Hai knew that the reason for this is because the blood was upgrading it . Just like the two dogs at the beginning, after eating Jiang Hai’s blood, didn’t they also fall into dormancy, this was also the case for the little eagle .
After using some hay and some of his own old clothes, he built a nest and put the small eagle into it . Jiang Hai also breathed a sigh of relief, looked back, and saw two dogs with curiosity in their eyes, squatting with their mouth open . Jiang Hai smiled gently and patted the heads of two big dogs .
“This little guy will be our family in the future, don’t bully it!”
Hearing Jiang Hai’s words, the two big dogs could not help but glance at Jiang Hai with their heads tilted, and then barked loudly .
At this time, the little sleeping eagle couldn’t help but move a little when he heard the dogs bark, and when Jiang Hai saw the little eagle’s movement, Jiang Hai immediately gestured for the two dogs to stay quiet, and then looked at the small eagle again .
“Bang . ” At this moment, a loud noise suddenly sounded . Jiang Hai looked back and found that the waist bag he had just taken off had fallen to the ground . At this time, a small hole had been opened in the bag . After a while a small head popped out of the hole, looking at the world in front of it curiously .
It didn’t feel much when he saw Jiang Hai, but when he saw Xiao Bai, he was instantly frightened and drilled back again, and Xiao Bai seemed to remember that he and this little guy were enemies, he couldn’t help but come over, he opened his mouth, clenched his teeth, and threatened the little guy hiding in the bag, but at this time Jiang Hai remembered that he had brought it back .
“Okay, don’t frighten this little guy . ” Jiang Hai said as he kicked Xiaobai’s ass, Jiang Hai walked over, picked up his belt bag, and pulled the cable freely, trying to pull out this little guy, But at this moment, the little guy bit him .
1 . he used the word Niu13 or Niu B . it is an internet slang used to describe a person who could accomplish something that an ordinary person can’t .