Field signs. Large Kulik (large blue) with a predominantly sand color upper body and numerous longitudinal pestrinami. At the pinnacle of the characteristic black and white stripes and spots. Big Yellow eyes and the rest looking good is different from all other species. Trehpalye legs. Female little different from the male less clear stripes on the folded wing. The young are even more obscure bands on the wing, more ohristy upper body, longitudinal pestriny less dramatic. Weight 350-450 g, 40-44 cm in length, wing 22,4-25,5 cm, the magnitude of 77-85 see Voice: loud svistovoe "irrhi" or "burrhi", or more drawl "iiiirrhi." issued also protyazhnye cries, similar to the voice of a large curlew - ulii, kuuurliii "or" tyurrlii. " Current song - quick "ut-ut-irhi-irhi-ut-irhi-irhi, ut-ut-irhi" and other combinations of the same sounds. The most frequently tokovanie Heard in the evening twilight. When anxiety publish similar, but shorter sounds: "ulii, klyui, klii, kurlii" etc. In negnezdovoe time tacitly (Ryabitsev, 2001).  Distribution. There is only one case of meetings of this kind in the territory of Tuva. In Erzinskom area on the bank of the river. TEN-Hem three kilometers below the village of Bay-Dag 29.04.1956 city has produced a male (Spassky, Sonin, 1959). It is obvious that this random zaletnaya bird, as well as near nesting sites away from Tuva to the many hundreds of kilometers. During work in the region (Tuva), this type has never met (Baranov, 1991).
Habitats. Naselyaet open spaces - desert, semi, dry steppe, bare. Select sites with poor sand, clay or rocky soil, dominated the open ground, oppression and rare grassy or shrub vegetation (Ryabitsev, 2001). Reproduction. Males guard the large nest territory. Live in pairs. Jacks as such does not, the eggs are in short yamke or on a flat spot, often without bedding, often among the stones, dried roots, sticks, pieces of land and manure. This and other minor material may be in the nest or complex around a curb. Eggs form is not like most other sandpipers, and oval or round, the color is very varied, from light clay to light yellowish-brown and gray, the figure could be as rare and small yellow-brown spots, often - in the form of brown, brown or black spots, strokes, lines, scrolls, sometimes - very densely. For color, shape and size eggs can be similar to eggs Tufted Duck. The size of eggs 47-62 x 35-42 mm. In laying 2 eggs, rarely - 1, very rarely - 3. Eggs lay at intervals of about 2 days, nasizhivanie begins with a full stack and lasts for 25-27 days. Sit alternately female and male, female bit more. Sitting almost continuously, including in the hot afternoon hours. Thanks to protective coloration nasizhivayuschaya bird even offshore low. When a person leaves the nest early. Birds are predators and drive away. By grazing cows and sheep fairly tolerant, go to the nest only when there is a risk of being downtrodden. We describe the cases where avdotki successfully repel animals from the slot. Ptentsov drive, and in the early days - and both adults feed the birds. Young raised on the wing at the age of about 1.5 months (Ryabitsev, 2001). Nutrition. Pitayutsya terrestrial insects, most of all - beetles, locust, eating worms, catch lizards, and sometimes - and small rodents (Ryabitsev, 2001). References. |
