Field signs. A small (about a hundred weight g) bird ohristo-burovatoy color, adding the tight. A male brown throat (autumn white), a female whitish. The inhabitants of the steppes, forest, meadows and fields. Much of life on earth holds, secretly kept the grass, well run. Reluctantly takes off, trees do not sit. Flies quickly and directly, often vzmahivaya wings. Before planting plans. Voice of male spring - a characteristic dramatic "battle", passed as a " pot-pot-weed ... weed ... "and is repeated until a dozen times. Before the "fight" produces a quiet, thick "Hwa-wa-wa ... Hwa ...", a female reply" rryu-rryu ... "(Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Distribution. Obitatel steppe, forest, meadows and fields. The only bird of passage among chicken central Siberia. Occasionally nest in suitable locations in the southern province, in the steppe, forest and lesopolnyh landscapes (Rogacheva, 1988). In the taiga zone reaches close to the valleys of large rivers, where there are meadows and arable land. At the Yenisey seen to the north to Village. Baklaniha (64 ° 25 'N, south of a typical northern boreal forest) (Rogacheva, Vakhrushev, 1983). Unit meets at Podkamennoy Tunguske from Vanavary and downstream Chuni. MP Tkachenko (1937) noted quails at the Lower Tunguska have Erbogachena. There are details about the meeting quails (probably zaletnogo) in 1955 in the valley of the Lower Tunguska Village. Tura (Syroechkovsky, 1959). In the Tuva lives in Tuva, and Todzhinskoy Ubsu-Nurskoy basins, but everywhere rare, occurs sporadically (Putintsev et al, 2002). Habitats. Prefer different open grassy habitats, including farmland. In the steppes avoid most dry sites in the north of the range are kept mostly in the flood plain meadows and fields (Ryabitsev, 2001). Phenology. Krasnoyarsk By the beginning of "battlefield" in the twentieth of May, the Peace first "battle" 10-18 June and 14 August, there were just chicks hatch (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). In the Tuva arrives in May, fly off in August - early September (Putintsev et al, 2002) Reproduction. Nest - fossa, vystlannaya grass. It 7-15 grushevidnyh olive-ohristyh eggs with large brown spots (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980), which nasizhivayut 17-20 days, then within 19-20 days leading female chicks (Putintsev et al , 2002). Nutrition. It feeds primarily on seeds to shoot plants, some insects (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Number. At the end of the XX century. Number of quails in the country steadily declined in Central Siberia, it has not been large (Rogacheva, 1988). The total number of Tuva is about 200-300 pairs (Putintsev et al, 2002). Measures of protection. Vid introduced in the Annexes to the Red Data Books Krasnoyarsk and Khakassia Republic. In the Red Book of the Republic of Tyva. In the Tuva is protected in nature reserves "Ubsunurskaya hollow" and "Azas (Putintsev et al, 2002). References. |
