Field signs. Pushistaya little birdie (weight 8-10 g) very long, slightly staggered tail. It looks like a small furry pellet, which sticks out a long tail. The back, wings and tail - black, white head, white bottom with a dirty-pink tinge. Young burovaty top of the head with a dark stripes on the sides. Voice - calls "cherr-cherr" or "si, si-si", or "qi, qi, qi" (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980).
Distribution. Sporadichno found evroaziatskaya bird and mixed hardwood forests and river beds (Rogacheva, 1988). Usually nesting in the forest Minusinsk depression. In the West Sayan AI Yanushevich and KT Yurlov (1950) saw its usual bird of all forest zones, except the dark taiga (a rare). In the Sayano-Shushenskoye Reserve as a rare species found only in the zone listvennichnikov and mixed forests in the river valleys (Sokolov et al, 1983; Petrov, Rudkovsky, 1985). In the basin of the river. Big Ury, the titmouse was usually slope listvennichnikah (3 specimens / km 2), cedar, larch forests of the upper part of srednegorya (8) and in the highlands kedrovnikah with some larch (2), in the same lowland forest, mixed with a predominance of spruce, birch, Osinniki but the margin and diluted listvyagov - it was one of the dominant species (11-26 animals / km 2) (Prokofiev, 1987a). In East Sayan, a small bird of lowland forest, mostly mixed-svetlohvoynyh in reserve "poles" in the vicinity of Krasnoyarsk, in the valley of middle and upper Kazyra (Yudin, 1952; Krutovskaya, 1958; Kim, 1961). In the forest and podtayge place of habitual (in the basin of the Greater Kemchuga in suhodolnyh spruce-fir forests with understory - 6-2 individuals / km 2) (Naumov, 1960); in the basin of the river. Kem is rare (Kim, 1959); in the basin of the river. Floodplain from Kanska not met (Ravkin et al, 1987). In the southern taiga on the Yenisey (59-60 ° with. Rd.) Generally usual, but the number varies greatly (from 1975 to 1977 declined by 10 times) in 1975 was multiplied by nesting in wet-olhovo birch forests of high floodplain Yenisei (27 animals / km 2) and pine forests (11), usually in the low valley and the Yenisei taiga edge (2 and 1 Special / km 2) (Bursky, Vakhrushev, 1983). In the upper Keti was rarely adhered to riparian forests (Moskvitin et al, 1977). In the lower Priangare rare in gnezdovoe time in the autumn rather common (Vladyshevsky, personal communication). Rarely have Motygina on the Angara river basin and. Heaters (Syroechkovsky et al, 1978). S. Ravkinym (1984) in the basin of the river. Chuny not marked. In the middle taiga in the Yenisey traced to the north to Peace (62 ° 15's. Rd.), Where it in different years rarely met in the left-bank floodplain Yenisei in gnezdovoe time, as well as kochevkah on the fringe of the forest on the banks of Yenisei. In autumn nomadic sinitsy appear in a large number of II decade of September and stay at least until mid-October. In some years (1982) gaggle of tit met in the left-bank floodplain forests and winter, in January and February. During the spring and summer work in the middle taiga Evenkia not met (Rogacheva, 1988). Habitats. Inhabit deciduous and mixed forests, especially fond of floodplain forests and wetlands with birch understory (Ryabitsev, 2001). Phenology. In the south, settled in the taiga of kochuyuschaya bird. Sletki appear on the "pillars" in the first decade of July (Krutovskaya, 1958). Reproduction. Jack ball with a side entrance to the fork in the trunk or bush, usually on the fringe. Spleteno mainly of green moss, tightly sealed fibers from the cocoons of insects, causing the walls are strong and thick as felt. Exterior wall jacks are faced with small pieces of birch bark, spruce, alder and other trees, white lichens, snatches of thin Berest, mailed spruce cones, etc. All material is also tightly countersigned dense network of fibers from the cocoons of insects and spider's web, resulting in a fairly tight outer shell. Internal litter is pushed to the walls, giving them greater strength. It consists of a large quantity of feathers, forming a solid mass of soft and warm. The diameter of the nest 90-120 mm, 120-180 mm height of the nest, flying diameter holes 20-40 mm in thickness of 10-25 mm jacks (Mikheyev, 1996). One of the most prolific birds, clutch contains between 6 to 16 eggs in the first laying usually 10-12. Found nests with 20 eggs, but perhaps some eggs in them were from outside females. Eggs are white with small neyarkimi red-brown specks or petty rash, or even a level tinting. Typically, this figure soft and rare, often only to the blunt ends. There are quite egg white, without drawing. The size of eggs 13-16 x 10-12 mm. Nasizhivat beginning with the penultimate or last egg, sitting two, but mostly female, and it usually can be found on zagnutomu awry tail. Duration nasizhivaniya 12-13 (on other data - up to 16-18) days. A nest behave discreetly. The young naked, mouth and klyuvnye rollers juicy yellow. Young are fed by both parents in the nest 14-16 days. Sometimes they help in the foreign birds that do not have their nests. More often it can be any pair of relatives. Perhaps some pairs nest twice during the season are known for Central Europe (Ryabitsev, 2001). Nutrition. Feed on insects, larvae and eggs, spiders. The feed wanted mainly to stick thin-leaved trees and bushes on at the various altitudes (Ryabitsev, 2001). References. |