Field signs. Spinnaya side, the rear of the chest and abdomen violet; side of the head, neck, goiter, part of the chest, shoulder and upper body feathers wing feathers bluish-zelenovatye, podhvoste white. Beak, legs and bare plaque on the red foreheads. The young birds are painted similarly, but more dimly. Wing 257-286 mm (Ivanov, Shtegman, 1978). The voice - a kind of groan, quiet poschelkivanie (Böhme et al, 1998). Distribution. Africa, with the exception of the Sahara. Australia. Islands: Madagascar, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, large and small Sunda, Philippines, Sulawesi, Molukkskie, Aru, New Guinea, Palau, Admiralty, New Britain, Chatham, Bismarck, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga New Zealand, Tasmania, Sardinia, Sicily. Eurasia, in which the area divided. The southern part of the Iberian peninsula, the southern part of Asia Minor, Syria, Iraq, the valley of the Kura Araks valley floor, lake systems in the Valley Egg Shirvanskoy, Milskoy and Mugan steppe, the west coast of the Caspian Sea to the north to the Volga River delta and south-western Iran and southern coast to the east to north-western Yunnan and eastern coast of Indochinese peninsula. To the north until the valley Atreka, the middle part of Afghanistan, Kashmir, the southern foothills of the Himalayas, north-western Yunnan. To the south to the ocean coasts of South and South-East Asian Nations (Stepanyan, 1990, 2003). References. |