Field signs. Bird the size of a little more than starlings, a very peculiar appearance. The head and torso burovato-ohristye, head flamboyant red toupee that the bird can add and dissolve the fan. The wings and tail painted contrast in black and white stripes. Wings broad, easy flight, with uneven swing, flying hoopoe like a great butterfly. Long beak, pintsetoobrazny, 2 nd and 3rd toes srosshiesya. Male and female reliably do not differ, but the female slightly smaller, it is usually better throat and a brown chest. In autumn coloring is the same. Young look like adults in general, but more fishy, without wine-pink hue on the chest, white stripes on the wings with a more pronounced ryzhim bloom, black - no gloss, beak shorter and more direct. Weight 45-85 grams a body length of 28-32 cm, wing 14,2-15,3 cm, the magnitude of 42-49 cm (Ryabitsev, 2001). Marital Creek male - subdued and a bit melancholic sounds: "pack-pack-pack", similar to the song Tengmalms sycha and deaf cuckoo, but in the phrase 3-4, rarely - 2 syllable, a clear break between phrases. Hriplovaty There is also a low whistle, vereschanie recess, mew and twitter (Ryabitsev, 2001).  Distribution. Appears in Achinskoy, Krasnoyarsk, Kanskoy forest, in Tuva, Minusinsk and Usinskoy basins. The northern border dissemination is not clear. In 1977 he received at the mouth of Podkamennoy Tunguska, then was in the vicinity of the Peace (average taiga 62 o 10 ') (Rogacheva, 1988). LS Stepanyan (1990, 2003) northern border of the species in Central Siberia holds latitude Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kansk.
Habitats. Birds semi-cross the landscape. The most common in the steppe, where there are lots of forest or even groups of trees, precipices, pile of stones. Gladly breeds in the villages. North often found among the villages, gardens, the pastures and fields (Ryabitsev, 2001). Phenology. For Central Siberia little understood (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). In Western Siberia hoopoe first appear in spring before vanishing snow, but mostly priletayut later in the second half of April - early May. Fly away to the south in August and September (Ryabitsev, 2001). Reproduction. Gnezdyatsya separated couples, males with territorial conflicts and fighting arrange tournaments like petushinyh. Not all kinds of cavities and recesses in the rocks and buildings, hollow, holes in the cliff, etc. In a small nest lining of grass, wool, feathers and other materials, often no. In laying of 3 to 12, often 5-8 eggs. They are oval or elongated, ovoid shape, coloring dirty-white, blue, greenish, and often gray or brown, until dark brown, uniform or as a rough veil. The size of eggs 23-30 x 16-20 mm. Nasizhivanie begins with a full or nearly full stack and lasts for 16-19 days. It fits only female, male feeds her, chicks are fed together. The young vyluplyayutsya in rare volosovidnom Pooh, after a week are covered pink and white down. The female sits on the nest tightly, to drive her out difficult, or to be persistent, could provoke a backlash protection: female (as podrosshie young) can vybryzgivat wrongdoing in the rest jet excrement, sdobrennyh smelly ekskretom special glands. Ptentsy sitting in the nest 20 -- 27 days (Ryabitsev, 2001). Nutrition. Feed on all kinds of insects, Mokrice, millipedes, spiders, small clams, which are picked from the ground, get out of gaps in the ground, in wood or animal dung, they like digging through debris, willingly escorted pasuschiysya cattle and grab frighten off insects. Sometimes catch small lizards and lyagushat. Major sacrifice long shivering on the ground - killing, a large beetles snap off tough elytra and legs (Ryabitsev, 2001). References. |
