Field signs. Harrier Large dark color. Weight males about five grams of females - up to seven city of Male and female dark brown with lighter bottom and bright. Typical spring marital games, during which the birds, rising high into the air and making it difficult pirouette, then abruptly dive with a characteristic squeaky cry. Voice swamp lunya - nasal squeak "piyyu ...", sometimes vocal Creek" Ke-Ke-ke ". Cautious (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980).  Distribution. Widespread species that inhabit the coast marshes, zarosshih kamyshom and reed ponds. In Central Siberia is found only in the south. Mostly common to lakes and forest-steppe Khakassia, is also under Minusinskom and Achinskoy forest. East Valley Yenisei not penetrate. Under the Krasnoyarsk marked A. Tugarinovym very rare birds, and nesting it is not proven. For PP Sushkina (1914), available at Yenisei vicinities to Eniseyska. EV Rogachevo (1988) is not met.
Reproduction. Migratory birds. Jacks - the cane, good shelter, rarer in the coastal bushes or quite openly in the meadows. The nest is a great bunch of (up to one meter across) of cane reed. Masonry - 4-6 white with a slight greenish tinge eggs. Masonry - under Minusinskom at the end of May, departing chicks from nests - in early August (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Nutrition. Dobychu takes, flying low above the ground or water, short of offering lapami. Has a shot: a bird, pause, fast rises deployed wings and put down legs, falls prey to. It feeds birds and their young, eggs, to a lesser extent, rodents (up to the muskrat), lizards, insects. Among the birds in the mining dominated kuliki and waterfowl, especially utyata, young and linnye birds. Sometimes, eat fish (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). References. |
