Benefits of birds to humans:
1. Birds can help humans eliminate many pests and spread the seeds of various plants. Moreover, many of our domestic poultry today are domesticated from the original wild birds. They provide us with nutritious meat and eggs.
2. Wild birds are an indispensable link in the natural biological chain. Once the natural biological chain is broken, it will cause a serious imbalance in the earth's ecological environment and even threaten the survival of living things, including human beings. Therefore, we must care for birds, protect birds, and protect all wild animals. This is to protect biological diversity and at the same time protect humans themselves.
3. Birdsong, like music, is a kind of information that can regulate the function of the human nervous system, relax people's tension, and thus make people feel relaxed. Some bird songs are also used for disease prevention and fitness. effect. Therefore, concentrating on listening to bird calls can rest the tired brain, dispel physical fatigue, forget mental pain, increase mental happiness, and form a cheerful character. The action of gazing at the bird can also focus people's attention and gradually organize their spirit. It is not only beneficial to preventing myopia and improving eyesight among teenagers, but also helps to cultivate the habit of seeking tranquility in motion among teenagers, so that they can concentrate on their work. , and can also directly play an auxiliary role in the treatment of various diseases.
Birds are more beneficial to people’s production and life. A pair of woodpeckers can protect more than 10 acres of forest from pests. One cuckoo can kill more than 100 pine caterpillars every day. A swallow can eat more than 1 million flies, mosquitoes and aphids in one summer. An owl can eat 4 to 5 mice in one night, and its ability to catch mice is as good as that of a domestic cat. This can reduce food loss by more than 1,000 kilograms every year. More than 60% of the food of magpies and crows is also pests. After dissecting 500 flying birds, an entomologist found that 93% of them had insects and insect body fragments in their stomachs.