This is a movie that surprises me. After reading the film reviews of many people, none of them seems to be a birdwatcher like in the movie. I am an ordinary bird watching enthusiast who has just started, working full-time, non-retired, ordinary person in China. Perhaps the many laughs, touches and facts in this movie are more real to me.
First of all, Big Year is a bird watching activity, which originated in the United States, but now China also has it. Unlike the United States, where there are news reports, and so many professional and public bird guides, the domestic birdwatching New Year is more of the senior birdwatching enthusiasts (individual or group) to participate, 1.1 to 1.1 per year. On 12.31, I won’t say much about it, because I didn’t participate because my personal time is limited and my level is limited. My bird-watching enlightenment teacher specializes in environmental protection and nature education, and they should have a network to participate in such activities. There are also many reports in this regard on the Internet. Chinese birds are particularly rich, and the record of bird watching far exceeds the 700 species in the United States in the film. As an individual, everyone will upload their records to public bird watching websites. The most famous domestic bird watching website is China Bird Watching website, and the foreign one is Ebird. You can keep informed about bird news in different places at any time. There is an easier way. In the "Bird Watching Super Talk" on Weibo, bird friends share the birds they see every day, which is very active.
Secondly, as an ordinary office worker, I really admire the rich and time bird watching big V. Yes, birds wait for no one, especially rare bird species. Most birds are migratory, breeding in cool places in summer and warm places for overwintering in winter. This means that there are different bird spots to see throughout the year, Qinghai in summer, Yancheng and Beihai in autumn, Yunnan in winter, Nonggang and Dongzhai in spring...not to mention the small ones around you Bird point of the area. Just like Birder in the movie, if you want to watch it, you can chase the tracks of the birds. During the spring and autumn migratory season, some rare birds only stay in a certain woodland in a certain place for 2 days, attracting enthusiastic bird people from a city to find them by plane; after the typhoon, the bird people’s first reaction is to carry their cameras and binoculars and go to the beach. Look at the river to see if there is a bird fall that was forced in by a typhoon (Haha). Because some birds can only be seen by fate in this life.
There are two scenes that are really real. In the Alaska section, the birdman’s heat and shock are really laughable. Bird watching places are relatively remote and difficult. My teacher said that once they went to Yunnan, they were feeding mosquitoes in the mountains; when we went to Wuyuan to watch the birds, we squatted back to the village in a caravan in a fellow villager in the winter. The rarer the bird, the more it will appear in the deserted place, and it will be blank until you open the map without knowing how to mark it. But it's fun for a large group of people to be crazy, and they just rush to do it just for one thing. There is also a paragraph where many people can't find the bird, just follow the most powerful person. In China, it is to watch the uncle. When those uncles with telephoto show up in groups, you can rest assured that there will be good birds. We also often look for birds and uncles. Don't underestimate the uncles in China. They are well informed, call friends and call friends, and they are expensive. They make blockbuster movies.
So when I saw these details of the movie, I felt the same way. Although I am just an ordinary birdwatcher, I have no money or time, so I can only use my own weekends and holidays, but the curiosity about birds is the same as the excitement of discovering new bird species. Many people will be curious, why? I know that China's natural education is lacking. No one teaches us to pay attention to nature. Our concern has been the development of ethics and morality since childhood. I also watched birds because I had more time to go to the park during the epidemic, and accidentally saw these cute animals by our side. After entering this world, I discovered that these seemingly "similar" birds have so many different appearances, habits, changes, stories, and are so closely related to my natural environment. It's fun to find them, and it's more fun to watch them courting, playing, bathing, and imitating human voices. I think this is curiosity about the world, curiosity about the innocent and passionate life. I want to know when the bar-tailed godwits flying from Siberia to New Zealand have intersection with me. I want to know if the unlucky bar-headed owl is another Be chased and beaten by the birds. Open a world with knowledge. What I see is no longer ordinary parks, ordinary rocks and tidal flats, but more interesting places, which is a higher level of fun. Many people will say that there are many kinds of fun. Believe me, the obsession with fun is because deeper fun attracts us. It's a shame not to experience it.
In addition, another theme discussed in the film is actually the conflict between hobbies and life. We all know what is most important to ourselves, so whether we choose hobbies or life is actually a state of life. Some people are fanatical, and some people are more Buddhist (such as me). Movies are biased, and that is family. In real life, except for a very small number of fanatics, hobbies don’t compete with family. After all, it’s work and career that can compete with family. The meaning of life should not only be work, but also family. It's more about myself. What I like determines what kind of person I become, a person different from others. Finding one's own existence in fun is more meaningful than fun itself.
Finally, in China, the bird watching environment is not good. (Why do you want to talk about China, because I really care about China, and I hope he is good in all aspects.) There are many reclaimed aquaculture centers next to the tidal flats in Yancheng, and there are people pulling bird nets in the slightly wild forest parks around them, especially in rural areas. Home-cooked meals. Excavators are often called by the bird watching environment, and the wetlands are shrinking. I hope that the country can attach importance to nature, and hope that more people will be freed from low-level material desires, take a look at the lives around them, and see what kind of impact their actions will have on our partners.
Looking at them, I am as curious about everything as I was when I was a child, and I am as innocent and happy as a child with strange friends who share the same smell.
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