Parrot Aoi and Raven Ado

The breeze is gentle and the sun is warm. This is a very rare good weather in winter.

Just like what the unreliable expert on TV said, the snowfall a few days ago was the last time this cold wave showed its strength. After the heavy snowfall, the temperature climbed slowly and steadily at a rate of several degrees per day with.

About a week later, no matter the highest temperature or the lowest temperature, it rose by more than ten degrees compared with the arrival of the cold current. The highest temperature has returned to ten degrees above zero, and the lowest temperature is only a few degrees below zero.

This kind of weather is of course good news for the big sunflower cockatoo, which is not hardy to cold. At least it doesn't need to be tightly wrapped when it wants to go out during the day.

This day was the day off for Mr. Aoi and Mr. Chengyi. They drove on the road after getting up early in the morning and had breakfast. They wanted to visit Mr. Xuan at Mr. Osaki's Bird Clubhouse.

After a week of treatment, Mr. Xuan's condition has recovered very well. He can already flap his wings and slowly fly out of the ward, strolling around the clubhouse to watch.

When Cheng Yi and Aoi arrived, it was the busiest time at the Bird Hall. The doctors, nurses, and assistants who were busy handing over shifts were gathering in the office to hand over their work.

Aoi and Chengyi are regular visitors to the Bird Clubhouse, and they informed in advance that they would come this morning, so seeing them, Mr. Osaki, who was explaining what he was talking about, nodded slightly to them through the glass of the office, signaling them to be casual, and then Get on with your work.

As soon as Cheng saw this, he went to the computer, entered his veteran account on the Parrot Association, and logged in to check the electronic medical records of the old raven that had been sent over for the past few days. For Aoi, it was even easier, and he flew directly to the ward Just ask Mr. Xuan himself over there.

In the general ward, Mr. Xuan was standing on the window sill basking in the sun, and saw a clever big crested sunflower parrot flying in from outside. After carefully identifying it with his head tilted, the old gentleman said: "This Is that Mr. Aoi? I’ve been hearing about you from Ah Wu or Du them these days. If you hadn’t figured out a way to transport me with a hat, and found a human to treat me, I’m afraid I’m gone now. Xuan Zai Here, I would like to thank you for your life-saving grace, if you need my place in the future, Mr. Kui, just ask."

The big white parrot landed on the window sill after circling around the room, and shook its head to the black raven next to it, and replied, "Xuan, you are being polite. Thanks to your careful teaching, it is getting better and better now." I am really relieved to see that I am getting more and more like a big bird. This treatment is just a matter of effort, so you don’t have to keep it in mind.”

Mr. Xuan smiled when he heard the words, and didn't repeat what he said. Duan Crow's temperament has always been clear about kindness and resentment, and he will definitely remember such a great kindness in his heart.

Within a few minutes, the morning meeting at the Bird Clubhouse ended. The night shift staff last night breathed out and went to the lounge to change their clothes to get off work. The doctors and nurses who were on the day shift today started their day's work.

After the doctors finished their ward rounds, the nurses began to push the carts to distribute breakfast to the patients in the hall.

Except for the chicks and juveniles in the fast-growing period, the birds in the clubhouse generally have two meals a day for the rest of the adult birds unless there are special circumstances.

According to individual conditions, the birds will be assigned sick meals carefully prepared for each of them to ensure that the birds have a balanced nutrition and a better recovery.

There are several other birds of different species living in the same ward with Mr. Xuan. Most of them have traumatic hands. Some are domestic pets. Some were injured in the wild and were sent here for treatment by well-meaning people.

There is a special charity project in the Bird Clubhouse. Members will spontaneously donate a sum of money every year for the treatment of birds injured by accidents.

Originally, Mr. Xuan's situation was in line with the circumstances of the recipient, but Mr. Kui and Mr. Chengyi were unwilling to use the donation easily, and they were willing to bear the cost.

The nurse in charge of distributing breakfast is an old acquaintance of Aoi. After distributing the food to the patients in the ward one by one, she pushed a metal trolley to Aoi's side, and delivered a quarter of the peeled pomegranate to the patients in the ward. Kui said, "Kui, long time no see. This is a fresh imported red pomegranate. I brought it here for you."

"Thank you, Miss Xue Nai, hey, Miss Xue Nai, did you forget Mr. Xuan? You didn't give it breakfast?"

After getting his pomegranate, he found that the nurse was planning to push the cart and leave without giving food to the raven who was also standing on the window sill, so he hurriedly called her to stop.

Aoi originally thought that the nurse had forgotten, but she was surprised when she heard Aoi's words, and turned to them and asked, "This raven named Xuan, is he willing to eat in the courtyard today?"

"Miss Nurse actually asked if you would like to eat in the courtyard? Why would she ask such a question?" The big white parrot, who was also surprised, asked Xuan beside him.

"Oh, I heard that you have to pay for living here and receiving treatment. So far, all my expenses have been borne by Mr. Kui and your master. I really feel sorry for this. Therefore, I feel that my body After I got better, I thought about not eating the food in the courtyard, so I could save some food." Mr. Xuan explained to Aoi.

After hearing this, Aoi said in a daze, "So you haven't eaten these days? How is this possible? Why didn't Mr. Osaki say anything when he sent the video to Bird, and that guy Toto didn't tell Aoi when he came back."

"You misunderstood Mr. Kui. Although my meals these days are not as nutritious as the meals for patients in the hospital, they can be regarded as full and well-fed, and I am not hungry."

"But........"

"Haha, you have to ask too specificly. This is about the habits of our ravens. Well, I won't be able to tell for a while. It just happens to be about the same time. If you are interested, why don't you just come and take a look."

After Mr. Xuan finished speaking, he waved his wings one step ahead and slowly flew out of the ward. Seeing this, Kui followed behind.

In the lobby of the Bird Hall, Mr. Chengyi was asking Mr. Osaki some specific things by the computer.

When he asked when the raven he sent could recover and leave, Dr. Osaki thought for a while and replied: "If it is domesticated, then it can be discharged from the hospital tomorrow, just wait a few days later to come and have the stitches removed. But It is wild, so it is best to stay until it is discharged from the hospital. And in order to facilitate the wound suturing, I removed most of the feathers and fluff from the chest and abdomen of the raven. If there is no protection of feathers in this weather, it will fly to the sky It’s looking for death. Even a healthy bird can’t do it, let alone an old raven that has just recovered from its injury. So my suggestion is that it should at least stay here until its feathers grow or the weather gets warmer, otherwise it will be very difficult Fly back to the nest by yourself. Of course, if the ravens still plan to use something to transport it back, then these words will be ignored."

Dr. Osaki's suggestion was very pertinent, Mr. Chengyi expressed his understanding, and then he pointed to some of the electronic medical records and continued to ask.

When Mr. Chengyi asked why there was no feeding record for that raven on the medical records since three days ago, Mr. Osaki approached him mysteriously and whispered to him: "This is what I just said I wanted to let the raven eat." You saw a spectacle, don't make a sound for a while, and watch the excitement with me."

Soon two big birds flew out from the lobby, one black and one white, the white one landed directly on the front desk, and the black one landed on the window of the lobby with the bird path.

The bird trails on the side of the Bird Hall are specially designed, and generally you can only enter but not exit, in order to prevent the birds staying in the hall from flying out if people are not prepared.

The few birds raised by Mr. Osaki all go out outside the gate, and then go home from here, and the birds who are not allowed to come in and out at will can only stay in the hall obediently.

Not long after Mr. Xuan landed there, a few ravens flew over from the south, and Kui immediately recognized the ravens inside.

Those ravens flew in from the bird road in a group, and Du naturally separated from the other ravens, and came to look for Kui alone.

The rest of the ravens were the female Ravus, with her brood of chicks.

They all had something in their mouths, and after falling down, they jumped up and down on the window sill, one by one approaching Mr. Xuan who was lying on the window sill in an orderly manner.

When Xuan saw them, there was a smile in his eyes, and he opened his mouth naturally, letting the children and grandchildren who came over to feed it the food they brought.

The three little ravens brought all kinds of grains and plant seeds for Mr. Xuan, and what Su brought for his father was a fat, gray bug that looked delicious.

On such a cold day, it looked like the insect had been picked out by a bird during hibernation, and it was unknown how the female raven found it.

It is not the first time for Mr. Osaki to see such a picture, but he still can't help but take out his mobile phone and keep taking pictures.

While patting him, he said: "Although we have known for a long time that ravens are birds with the habit of feeding back, and have also studied this habit of Corvidae in depth in the study of materials and some document videos, but so recently This is the first time I have seen the habit of feeding back for a long time, and this information is simply too precious."

"Hey, Cheng Yi, why don't you react? You know, since the raven was able to eat normally, those little ravens have come here in droves to deliver food to it on time and every meal in the past three or four days. Isn’t this kind of filial piety and perseverance worthy of praise?”

Hayakawa Chengyi glanced at Dr. Osaki blankly when he heard the words, and asked in a very accustomed tone: "Oh, is it rare for a raven to feed back?"

"It's not uncommon but it's not very common either, at least at observation points in cities."

"Oh, what do you see over there?" Mr. Cheng Yi said and pointed, and everyone looked in the direction of his finger.

On the marble countertop at the front desk, Du was carefully tearing open the tough exocarp of the red pomegranate with his bird's beak.

After pulling a few openings in the peel, it easily tore off a few pieces of peel with its beak, then jumped on it, and gently tried to pry the red pomegranate's densely packed and irregular three-dimensional fruit with its beak. grain.

Anyone who has eaten pomegranates knows that the fruit of that thing is very crisp, and the inside is full of juice. If the skin is accidentally touched, the whole fruit will be broken.

Du obviously knew this, so he was extra cautious when doing it. It took about half a minute before he managed to remove a whole pomegranate, turned his head and fed it into the mouth of Aoi who was waiting beside him.

Compared with the hassle of taking the fruit, the great white parrot moves more freely and quickly when eating pomegranate seeds.

I saw it took the pomegranate grains from the mouth of the black raven, and nimbly shifted it a few times in its mouth. After finding the position of the lower mouth, it closed its beak up and down vigorously, and the pomegranate grains were squeezed, and all the juice flowed into it. into its mouth.

In order to prevent the remaining juice from wetting its feathers, the great white parrot will hold its head up when eating.

When the juice of the pomegranate grains is almost left, it will swallow the belt seeds together, chew, suck, and rub vigorously, peel off all the edible things on the pomegranate grains, lick them clean, and finally make a pooh sound Spit out a light/dry pomegranate seed.

With the spit out of this pomegranate seed, another fresh sour and sweet pomegranate will be delivered by the black raven soon, and Aoi will happily pick it up and continue to enjoy it. The gesture is very smooth and natural, as if That's how it should be.

"Did you see that the raven feeds back? Our family has been doing it for more than three months. From summer to now, I can see it almost every day. How else can I react?"

Dr. Osaki was speechless when asked. He stroked his spectacle frame silently, and quietly adjusted the angle of the phone lens towards the white parrot and black raven, recording the two guys together.