Field signs. The head, neck, wings and tail, black with metallic luster, the rest pink plumage. At the head toupee. Young - dust-brown with a light belly. Creek and the song - sharp and scratchy throat sounds takeoff - Creek, similar to the Creek ordinary starlings (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Distribution. Bird steppes and semi-Central Asia, including the foothills and cultural landscape, nesting on the east to the Altai (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). There are zalety in Minusinskuyu hollow: 7 Jun., 1911 on the island Tagarskom Minusinska in a gaggle of ordinary starlings have three pink; here in mid-June, a pastor was greeted in the gaggle thrushes. Another bird seen in the stae of ordinary starlings at Abakan, 20 km from Minusinska (Fedorov, 1911). One pastor of the flock was produced in Tuva on the Yenisey River at the mouth. Elegest, near the border with Krasnoyarsk edge (Ioganzen, 1929). In recent years zalety pink starlings in Central Siberia increased. In May and June 1979, this species was in Shirinskoy steppe (Prokofiev, 1987). In 1986 he finally found his nesting in the tract Sorokaozerki: BS Nalobin the spring of 1986 found the nest. At srednetazhnom Enisee number zaletov: 9 June 1983 in the Peace directly in the village had produced an adult male, feed on the road in early June 1984 residents of the neighboring village of Bahta also saw a solitary bird. In 1985, 27 and 28 June, a pastor flew to mirnovskoy clearing, often in a gaggle of ordinary starlings (Rogacheva, 1988). Met to catch in the Central Tuvinian Hollow (oz. Hadyn), where there are charges in the collection zoomuzeya Krasnoyarsk University. In May 1999, single highlighted our Ordzhenikidzevskom region of Khakassia (AN Baykalov). Reproduction. Selitsya colonies in schelyah rocks and cliffs, among stones, in burrows in the steppe zone (Böhme et al, 1998). Nutrition. It feeds mostly locusts, with its massive zaletah sometimes flocks of starlings are going to hundreds of thousands of birds (Böhme et al, 1998). References. |
