Field signs. Bird with a jackdaw size of a fluffy soft plumage, a wide Khokhlov, rather short wings and long tail. Easy to spot in bright blue «mirrors» with narrow black bars at the fold wings and black «Ousame». The wings and tail, black, white nadhvoste. The head red, the rest - fox-brownish-gray. In gnezdovoe being silent and careful, the rest of the time - visible, kriklivaya bird, very curious. Voice - «geee. . . geee. . . »And« keey, keey ». Song - a set of loud sounds and voices of imitation of other birds (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Distribution. Bird clarified mixed and svetlohvoynyh podtaygi forests, forest, the foothills and middle Sayan and rare boreal forest of southern Siberia, Central (Rogacheva, 1988). Slot in the forest pine forests Minusinsk depression, for razrezhennym areas surrounding plains, and taiga on the edge of taiga in the northern foothills Sayan, as well as larch pereleskah Usinskoy basin. In the mountain forests at the beginning of the century does not go (Sushkin, 1914). There are currently met in larch and pine, larch forests in the basin of the river. Big Ury (1 specimen / km 2) (Prokofiev, 1987a); for the Sayano-Shushenskogo reserve in Overall, as for all forest zones to the West Sayan as a rare bird, but as usual - only for low-and high kedrovnikov (Sokolov et al, 1983; Petrov, Rudovskny, 1985). In Priangare usually svetlohvoyno-hardwood and pine forests and felling (3-6 individuals / km 2) (Ravkin, 1984). By Yenisei at the beginning of XX century. met north latitude to Eniseyska. We have made almost everywhere in the south and sporadichno in the middle eniseyskoy taiga, but the nesting north of the village. Osipova (61 ° 25 'N) is not proven. The most northern meeting kochevavshey birds - in September 1977 at the Village. Alinskoe (63 ° 20 'N). At a depth of taiga Evenkia Barrows, according to the survey, found summer in the vicinity of Vanavary (60 ° 20 'N); of stay is unclear (Rogacheva, 1988). Phenology. Data on phenology almost none. At the southern edge - sedentary bird committing kochevki autumn and winter. Of the taiga also otkochevyvaet for the winter to the south. Sletki in «pillars» - since mid-June to mid-August soyki beginning kochevat on reserve; winter often feed from the towns and even in single buildings in the taiga (Krutovskaya, 1958). Young kept in the winter with her parents in February split into pairs. At the southern edge - normal in poslegnezdovoe time, numerous bird. In the taiga zone is rare. Reproduction. Jack - usually on the sideline tree. The base of the bars, lining - feathers and lichens. Masonry - 5-7 greenish eggs with drill-gray spots (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Nutrition. Vseyadna. Vegetation consumed all year round, but mainly in cold seasons. In European countries, the food - acorns. In the forefront of food is not known. There seems to eat different seeds (including cultivated plants - oats, wheat, peas), cherry fruit, berries cranberries, raspberries. In summer, mainly insectivorous, in the case of catches rodents, lizards, frogs, small birds, their chicks, eat eggs from nests (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). References. |
