Golden roosters will gather in winter and enter the breeding season in mid-March, and the rooster will announce it with a song. Its nest is located on the ground and is very hidden. The nesting materials are mostly litter and feathers of female birds. Generally, 3 ~ 7 eggs are laid in each nest. Because of its high ornamental value, it is threatened by illegal hunting and habitat destruction. In order to strengthen protection, its related associations have taken many measures, such as establishing breeding bases for artificial breeding and then releasing them into the wild, and a small number of them have been domesticated for zoo viewing or fitness research. Shaanxi Institute of Zoology mainly focuses on the artificial domestication and breeding, disease prevention, field population investigation and protection of golden roosters, and has established a relatively perfect artificial breeding system, which has accumulated rich experience for the protection and management of golden roosters.
Golden roosters in southern Shaanxi, including golden pheasant with red belly and cotton pheasant with white belly, are independent species, which originated from Qinba Mountain and Hengduan Mountain respectively. They are very active in the mountains, singing love in the forest and calling for the dawn. The altitude and climate here are suitable for health preservation, which belongs to the origin of golden roosters and is also a paradise and paradise for their life and reproduction. In my observation, I found that Jinji is alert, timid, very good at running, flying quickly and sensitively, and flying freely in the dense forest; Hearing and vision are extremely keen, and they flee at the slightest noise, mostly alone or in pairs, and flock in winter.
The golden rooster is known as the "Little Phoenix" and crowned with "five virtues": those who wear the crown also have culture; Those who are full of distance are also martial; Those who dare to fight in front of the enemy are brave; See food, benevolence also; Those who don't waste time watching believe in it. There is a poem saying that "the plateau is spring, and the crown is painted with gold." The stone slides and the smoke shines, and the rock branches depend on each other every moon and night. Sometimes, I dance, and suddenly I fly. This is a message that Yao and Taiwan Province are happy to be back in the same place. The golden rooster is the prototype of the phoenix, and the dragon and phoenix are auspicious. It is a cultural totem of China for thousands of years, which needs us to cherish and protect. The harmony between man and nature will be the icing on the cake, with a bright future and brilliant future.