Field signs. Stocky bird on short legs with 4 fingers, korotkoklyuvaya, with a wide cut mouth. Vilchaty tail, wings are long and sharp. Bird apparently is not like other sandpipers, but rather reminds tern or more swallow - not only appearance but also a lot of style and easy to toss in the air. Males and females are painted similar, but in males longer extreme steering, a long wing and a black spot on the bridle. In the autumn operenii more delicate, especially the "face" of the black "necklace" remains the dotted line of dark spots, brown chest. Young different from the old existence of dark pestrin on the neck and chest at operenii top of the wings back and great ohristye kaemki. Weight 80-110 grams length 23 -- 26, 18,0-21,6 wing, the magnitude of 60-68 see Male tokuet in the air, repeating with some intervals quadrisyllable phrase "THIEY THIEY THIEY-teek." When anxiety - brusque "tirkayuschie" sounds, with roll -- "tirli" or "kirli." Generally birds rather noisy (Ryabitsev, 2001). Distribution. Steppes and semi from the West Black Sea to the Altai. In Western Siberia - almost all the prairie area, but very uneven. Zaletayut north to the Middle Urals and the breadth of Tyumen (Ryabitsev, 2001). References. |
