Field signs. Small gull (weight 200-250 g) with a characteristic V-shaped tail. Coloring extremely beautiful and original: white with a bright pink tinge, back ash-gray, nashee narrow black ring ( "necklace"). Thin black beak, legs and a ring around their eyes bright red. In the winter Attire "necklace" no. The voice is very diverse, but much higher and gentle than the other gulls. The flight of light, reminding flight terns (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Distribution. Insufficiently rare endemic of Russia. For the first time this nesting gulls were open SA Buturlin in 1905 in the lower reaches of the Kolyma. Later, pink seagulls have been found in several paragraphs Yakut tundra and the forest, from Chuanskoy lowlands in the east to the west to the delta Jana (Rogacheva, 1988). In 1973, VF Dear and BM Pavlov (1976) opened the colony rose gulls nested on the Taimyr. It was located 30 km above the mouth of the river. Big Balahni, which flows into the Gulf of Hatangsky. In winter, pink seagulls (a negnezdyaschiesya birds - all year round) wander in divorce Arctic Ocean to the east and west of the nesting sites. At the Taimyr single bird several times met the spring in the valley of the river. Pyasiny, including the Village. Ust-Tareya (Rogacheva, 1988). There were pink gulls on the North Earth: they saw it in different years, a single or small gaggle of on-ve Bolshevik, and in late summer 1976 on a sand spit in the northern part of the Islands Komsomolets observed several hundred feed on sand pink gulls (Belikov, Randla, 1987). Habitats. Gnezdovoy biotope - wet flat tundra and the forest with lakes and wetlands, sedgy (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980; Rogacheva, 1988). At the Taimyr colony was situated in the flat tundra in low-lying, waterlogged valley porosshey arktofiloy, next to a small lakelet (roads, Pavlov, 1976). Reproduction. Jacks are satisfied from the grass on a log. Coloring eggs - a dark greenish-olive with chocolate-brown stains. Parents are actively defend the nest. At the cry priblizhayuschegosyacheloveka to dive, podletaya close (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Nutrition. Feeds insects, worms, mollusks, small fish (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Number. In the colony discovered in the Taimyr, it was noted 45-50 pairs of gulls. More data on the number in Central Siberia is not (Rogacheva, 1988). References. |
