Field signs. A very small heron (weight 136-145 g) with a long thick neck and small head. The top of the head and back black with a green otlivom, bottom ohristy with long brown pattern on the chest. Beak yellow-green, green legs. For females top is dark brown. Twilight and night-bird, lives alone except nested period. Wonderful hiding in the bush drive. When approaching human bird draw up the head and neck and congeal into immobility, and to distinguish it from the surrounding stalks of plants is almost impossible. Vspugnutaya, easily lifted into the air and flying a little bit, with the dispersion again catches in the thicket. Flight fast, said flight Chirka. Good walks, runs fast, very deftly climb to more cane stalks holding the long fingers. Flies, but uncomfortable, and can dive, especially the wounded. Spring Creek male can be heard and night and day: the two-or three-fold «Dumbya» or «prumb». At other times birds produce a dramatic and very quick «Ke-Ke-Ke-Ke» (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1995).  Distribution. Until recently, the region has not been forthcoming. In recent years, SM Prokofiev (1987) found a single copies of these birds in Shirinskom region of Khakassia. In June 1979, a pair of Tops, which could suggest nesting, was greeted them at a pond in zarosshih 17 km from Minusinska (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1995).
Habitats. Large and small lakes with thickets of aquatic vegetation (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1995).  Reproduction. Jacks built in the dense thickets of reeds or on the water flooded trees, they are made from cane stalks and leaves, are in the shape of an inverted cone. Kladka - 4-9 white, slightly greenish eggs by the end of nasizhivaniya contaminants before dark color (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1995).
Nutrition. Pitaetsya animal feed: fry, frogs, golovastikami, all kinds of insects, snails, worms. In the case even eat eggs and chicks of other birds, until the ducks and herons (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1995). References. |
