Field signs. The most minor of Bekasova with starlings. In addition, the korotkoklyuvy - beak to represent slightly more than half of head length, it is always shorter than 43 mm. The dark cap with a bright "parting" Bright eyebrow double divided longitudinal dark stripe. At the back of a lot of black sites with a strong purple and purpurnym otlivom. The tail is brown with a soft sandy figure, with no bright marks, distinctly wedge-shaped, unlike the rounded, with white and dark pestrinami and spotted tails representatives of the genus Gallinago, steering 6 pairs. The bottom surface of the wing, at its base, there are white slick, but very small and very different shape than that of the snipe. At the upper surface of the wing is longitudinal white stripe, but it is very narrow, on the back edge of the wing, at its base, a fairly wide white stripe. Frighten off half snipe flies straight and not very fast. Males and females apparently do not differ, males on average slightly larger. Autumn young differ from adults is not dominated by red and brown on the chest, with more blurred pestrinami dark and blurred with white abdomen. Weight 35-90 g, 19-23 cm in length, wing 10,5-12,1 cm, the magnitude of 35-42 cm (Ryabitsev, 2001). In negnezdovoe very silently. In spring male tokuet in the air like a snipe, but at such a sharp dive, flying over a large territory and greatly, so that sometimes it is difficult to find a look. Song - deaf monotonous sounds "tutruk-Related tutruk ...", to knock away kopyt prancing horse and rhythm and sound, which may resemble or gurgle, or tap pebble thrown at young ice. From close range, you can still hear the deaf grumbling sounds ververrr (Ryabitsev, 2001).  Distribution. Redky Eurasian Kulik is not enough to clarify clustered range. Hiding a rare bird of marshes and forest-tundra of northern taiga, in some places and nesting in the middle taiga. Nesting in the tundra zone is not proven. Cluster area clarified weak, especially east of the Yenisei. The northern border nesting in the West Taimyr - 69 o N, the Central Taimyr - 71 o N At the Yenisey found only in the northern and middle taiga, to the north up to 65 o 25 'N and south to 62 o 15 'N (Rogacheva, 1988). It may occasionally nest in Minusinsk Basin (Sushkin, 1914).
Habitats. Occurs in very wet or moss-osokovyh osokovyh swamps with a low, but the thick grass, bushes rare, the flooded meadows (Ryabitsev, 2001). Phenology. Under the Krasnoyarsk marked by passage in the third decade of May and the fall in the latter. Tokovanie downstream Agapy - in June, nenasizhennaya masonry in the upper river. Fish - June 30. Fly to the north - along with the Bekasi (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Reproduction. Nest, thick lining snatches of grass. In laying 4 eggs, densely mottled brown small blurry or reddish-brown krapom less - with a clear spots on the yellowish or reddish background. The size of eggs 35-42 x 25-30 mm. Nasizhivaet only female, probably about 22-24 days. Sitting on the nest so tightly that not take off until there is a threat to be downtrodden, along with kladkoy (Ryabitsev, 2001). Nutrition. Ilistyh feeds into the ground worms, larvae of insects, molluscs (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). References. |
