Field signs. Melche Skvortsov, spin pink-brown or light brown, male top of the head and nadhvoste gray; ventral side white with pinkish tinge on the chest, the tail of male black and white in females and young birds tail brown at the sides thin transverse dark figure (young also on the head and back). In the air wing with white spots or stripes (Böhme et al, 1998). Distribution. Bird clarified forests and shrubs in Europe and western Siberia, previously in Central Siberia has not been forthcoming. Eniseyskoy detected in the southern and middle taiga (Rogacheva, 1988). In the southern taiga 6 Jun., 1977 at Kolmogorovskom Island (59 o 25 'N) met the male, keep in the bushes of grassland along with a pair of Siberian zhulanov (Bursky, Vakhrushev, 1983). In the middle taiga (Peace, 62 o 15's. Rd.) 22 Aug., 1978 during the fall of Siberian overflight zhulanov to mirnovskoy clearing was an ordinary young Okol'covannaja zhulan. On 27 August, the same bird hit the second trap (Rogacheva et al, 1978). The Peace ordinary zhulan occurs almost every year and a small number of breeds in the clearing near the village and transitional swamps in the basin of the river. Varlamovki (Rogacheva, 1988). Habitats. Inhabit the bushes and melkolesya Edge, felling, in river valleys. Do not avoid the parks and gardens, vegetable gardens, the outskirts of villages. The main requirement for the habitat - the presence of bushes in the neighborhood with open areas (Ryabitsev, 2001). Reproduction. Jack in the form of thick-walled bowl built mostly male, female has been more involved in the process of lining tray. The nest is placed anywhere in the solid fork in a tree or bush, mostly in the 1-2 meters above the ground, rarely higher than 3 m, sometimes - on the ground. Especially love spiked with thick bushes, thorns. In the steppes of nests found in the reed. The framework consists of a nest of thin branches, grasses, roots, moss, in a tray - a soft grass, fine roots, wool, feathers are. In laying 4-7, usually 5-6 eggs. Their color variable. Background coloring shell generally bright and sometimes three main types - greenish, yellow, reddish. Marks different setting, too, are very different - mostly olive, brown, red, can be as precise and blurred, big or small, usually not very dark, if not faded, are often only a halo of the blunt end. The size of eggs 18-27 x 14-20 mm. Nasizhivaet female, starting with otkladki last eggs, 14-16 days. Male feeds nasizhivayuschuyu female, sometimes short of its substitute. Young are fed by both. The young naked, mouth orange -yellow to pale yellow klyuvnymi rollers, sitting in the nest 14-15 days (Ryabitsev, 2001). Nutrition. Pitayutsya mainly large insects - beetles, butterflies, locust, etc., Which podkaraulivayut, sitting on bushes or trees, sometimes flit from place to place may hang in the flutter on the ground. Sometimes attacking small birds, chicks, lizards, rodents . Widely known zhulanov style with plenty of food nakalyvat remnants of mining thorns, thorns, to strengthen the fork in the branches - quiver. But such stocks are not often and not everywhere, which is inhabited zhulany (Ryabitsev, 2001). References. |
