Saturday, 13 August 2011

Australian Masked Owl 澳大利亚假面猫头鹰

Description

Brown feathers surround a white, heart-shaped mask. Their coat is brown, aside from light gray spots on the upper back. Their front is white with brown spots. Their eye color varies from black to dark brown. Females are darker shaded and larger than males. A Masked Owl's weight is 23.3 ounces (660 g). Their wings generally span 35–47 cm. They are one of Australia's largest owls; the largest is the Powerful Owl.
布朗羽毛环绕白色心形面具它们毛色是棕色的除了上背部浅灰色斑点他们前面白色褐色斑点他们的眼睛的颜色从黑色到暗棕色女性较深的阴影和男性更大的一个蒙面猫头鹰重量为23.3盎司(660它们的翅膀一般35-47厘米他们澳大利亚最大的猫头鹰之一最大的是强大的猫头鹰

The Australian Masked Owl inhabits shrubs,with timber. In Australia they are seldom found more than 300 km inland. They roost and nest in large tree hollows near foraging areas. They are nocturnal and their prey includes rodents, reptiles, birds, insects and bandicoots. The population of the Australian Masked Owl on the mainland is declining and several states have this owl on the Species Conservation Status list. They are territorial and remain in the same area all their lives.
澳大利亚假面猫头鹰栖息在灌木木材在澳大利亚他们很少超过300公里内陆它们栖息附近觅食地区树洞它们是夜间活动它们的猎物包括啮齿类动物,爬行动物,鸟类,昆虫澳大利亚假面猫头鹰在大陆人口正在下降,几个国家有此物种的保护现状列表猫头鹰他们的领土并保持他们的生活在同一地区

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Masked_Owl

**Please be careful with this type of owl. It is very dangerous species and harm to our swiftlet house. From my observation, most of the owl is scare for LAMP that we install at our bird house's entrance except this type Australian Masked Owl. I thought this species can only found at Australia, but I also found in Malaysia too.
**请小心这种类型猫头鹰这是非常危险的种类甚至危害我们金丝燕我的观察,大部分猫头鹰怕灯光,可是这种类型的澳大利亚假面猫头鹰除外我也认为这种类型猫头鹰只能澳大利亚发现,但我亦马来西亚发现

Tuesday, 2 August 2011

如何解决亞硝酸鹽嚴重超標 (曾英儀‧燕業海嘯之亞硝酸)

筆者從事超聲波燕屋加濕器近兩年之久,替朋友解決燕屋過於乾燥使燕子製不了窩,甚至遠飛而去的難題。

觀 察了許多燕農的加濕方法卻不敢恭維。當時我對朋友說大馬燕窩遲早出問題。那就是亞硝酸鹽的含量過度。7月26日在報章上讀到中國不再進口大馬燕窩的新聞, 只是提到亞硝酸鹽嚴重超標,卻似乎無人知道原因何在!在自然界中就有分解氮化合物的微菌。鳥糞或魚缸內的動物糞便含有阿摩尼亞,學名氨,由3個氮原子和1個氫原子合成(NH3)的化合物。氨卻是亞硝酸的產生源頭!


除 了誘燕、燕屋設計,室內加濕是最關鍵的一回事。因為燕子需要大量的唾液製窩。製窩的當兒唾液必需獲得適當的滋潤,否則燕窩過於乾燥而顯得不晶瑩剔透。更糟 糕的是燕子不再繼續做下去而遠飛離開。早期燕農利用滴水法、室內建造水池來加濕燕屋。由於這些方法讓水蒸發得很慢,有人利用壓縮機經噴嘴洒下霧水,效果算 是不錯。但業者後來發現噴嘴常常阻塞,而且滴水,維修方面略嫌麻煩。


近來這兩年加濕方法是利用電動洒水 機。此機器本來是用來淋花草、園藝或養雞場所用的。由於價格便宜而且非常耐用,是當今精打細算的燕農所愛。從衛生角度來看,但它是非常不適用的。因為鳥糞 可以直接掉入水盤中,由電動馬達以離心力從水盤抽起經上部的一個小風扇擊碎成更微小的水顆粒。試想水盤的水和鳥糞混合重複再生使用,燕屋內會乾淨嗎?糞水 重複使用於滋潤燕子唾液一點都不衛生。


今天所爆發的亞硝酸鹽事件,我早已料到,因為我相信科學。


在 自然界中,如魚和鳥的糞便都會產生有毒的氨(阿摩尼亞),硝化菌(Nitrifying Bacteria)把阿摩尼亞分解成亞硝酸鹽與硝酸鹽(Nitrate)。養燕人是要去除氨的存在。從亞硝酸鹽的角度來看,燕農有兩大錯誤。一是加濕無 方,二是為燕屋內“加糞”,結果衛生條件則大大的扣分。有業者或燕子師傅建議在新燕屋內放置更多的鳥糞以去除泥水,新漆的味道,表面看來是好建議卻斷送了 生產優良燕窩的條件。有者還放入無水阿摩尼亞(Anbydrous Ammonia)來製造“氣糞”去除新燕屋的味道。燕子器材店還大量銷售甚麼激素、燕子香精等!氨是亞硝酸的源頭啊!


我認識一位比較有知識的養燕師傅,他建議燕屋內的鳥糞要經常清除,加濕器要用超聲波加濕器,霧水不要著地,不滴水而不長菌,清新的空氣和沒濕漉漉的地板。負責任的養燕師傅必須要自我提昇,愚昧的行動會把燕窩千秋大業白白斷送掉。



(转载自:星洲日報/言路‧作者:曾英儀) http://opinions.sinchew-i.com/node/20291

Sunday, 24 July 2011

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Wednesday, 20 July 2011

我家的幼金丝燕

                                                                                    
差不多可以飞的金丝燕

刚出生不久的金丝燕

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Bird house with Blue Star external sound 蓝星外声 (open roof 天井式)





This is one of the video taken in a bird house which are using Blue Star external sound.
The owner is very satisfaction for this external sound.

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