Have you ever seen a raptor brood
The Japanese pine sparrowhawk is a bird of the eagle-toothed eagle subfamily, a small bird of prey, with a body length of 23-33 cm and a weight of 75-173 grams, and the female is larger than the male. A small number of them are resident birds, generally summer migratory birds in northern China and winter migratory birds in the south. It mainly inhabits montane coniferous forests and mixed forests, but also occurs in forest margins and sparsely forested areas, and is a typical forest raptor. Recently photographed in the jungle of Yishan Mountain, Shandong Province.
It feeds mainly on small birds such as and warblers, but also eats insects and lizards. The breeding period is from May to July, and it often nests in dense montane forests and forest edges, especially in coniferous forests or coniferous broad-leaved mixed forests, high trees near river valleys and streams, and also nests on tall trees such as red pine and larch in forest edge sparse forests, and the nests are mainly composed of thin pine branches and other thin branches. The outer edge of the nest is often woven with fresh pine branches with green leaves, and the inner pad is lined with pine needles and feathers. The nest is small and solid, round and thick in the shape of a dish or disc, with a height of 10-20 meters from the ground. Each clutch lays 5-6 eggs, which are light blue-white in color and covered with a few small purple-brown spots, especially in the outer end. The hatched eggs are off-white.
Parent birds have a strong nest protection behavior during egg incubation, and when they find someone entering the nest area, they often show an attacking posture or swoop down.
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