Field signs. Bird the size of starlings, male crimson-red spots in the white, female and young birds gray. Song - raskatistye loud whistling, shouting - quiet "fyuin (Böhme et al, 1998). The proliferation. Altaya highlands of rare birds and Sayan. Specific findings in Central Siberia relate almost exclusively to the West Sayan (Rogacheva, 1988). In the Sayano-Shushenskoye Reserve noted as a rare Subalpiyskogo nesting species belts and high kedrovnikov (Sokolov et al, 1983; Petrov, Rudkovsky, 1985). In the basin of the river. Big Ury 20 July, 1982 VI Bezborodov met a couple of birds in priruchevom bushes at the lake. Freight in the upper river. Otuk-Sook, at an altitude of 1800 meters; nearby were met by three more singing males (Syroechkovsky, Bezborodov, 1987); SM Prokofiev (1987a) here has its usual bird pine woodland and tundra ernikovyh Goltsova belt (2 osobi/km2). For the East Sayan, there is only mention of meeting a pair of birds in late March Biryusinskom mines from the eastern borders of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Sushkin, 1914). Reproduction. Slot in the floodplain forests predgory in laying 3-6 bluish black spotted eggs (Böhme et al, 1998). Nutrition. Zernoyadnaya bird. The food consists of seeds and berries. Between vykarmlivaniya chicks in food are pryamokrylye and beetles (Korelov et al, 1974). References. |
