Field signs. Kulichok the size of Early Riser with short legs and beak. Top of sand-brown, white bottom, white throat, across the goitre black tie, white forehead, above the black spot. Klyuv orange-yellow with a black end. Legs are dim, orange-yellow. In flight shows a white stripe on the wings. Bird kriklivaya and very visible, especially in the slot. Alarming Creek - melodichnoe "kiii" current song - "Vitu-WCI, Cuito RES (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Distribution. Norte Kulik with krugopolyarnym range. Typical bird galechnikovyh sand and sea coasts, major rivers and smaller bodies of water throughout the zone of tundra and the forest; on major rivers comes to nesting places in northern and even middle taiga. To the north distributed to the ocean, except for the polar desert zone. The southern border nesting on the Yenisey - 62 ° 15 'N deep in the left Yenisei - 67 ° N, east of Yenisei - 68-69 ° N, that is not consistent with the data available updates (Rogacheva, 1988). In the Arctic tundra West Taimyr, except for the shores of ponds inhabited rocky and schebnistye sites spotted tundra, damp lowlands score fins in the mouths of streams flowing into the sea, large margin snezhnikov the tundra (Tugarinov, Buturlin, 1911; Vronsky, 1986). Phenology. The Lake. Queta in the south-western Taimyr massive arrival on 12-13 June, hatching chicks - the end of the second decade of July, the first vyvodki - July 21, Aug. 11 - a well-flying chicks size of a parent in early September from the area of Norilsk Lakes fly away last galstuchniki (Krechmar , 1966). Reproduction. Kladka 4, less 3 or 5 eggs. Nasizhivanie extends over 23-27 days, an average of 24-25 days (Makatsch, 1974). Nutrition. Pitayutsya variety of animal food (water and soil insects and their larvae, small clams, worms, crustaceans) (Syroechkovsky, Rogacheva, 1980). Size. Of large number of small, although because of its visibility in the verbal evaluations galstuchnik perceived by many observers as large type. In the arctic coastal tundra of North-West Taimyr - 0,5-1 couples or vyvodkov 1 km coastline (Vronsky, 1986). In typical podzonah and bush tundra strength markedly higher than in the arctic tundra, forest and taiga zone (Rogacheva, 1988). References. |