Spring finally came to Moscow from the South to the capital city returned to migratory birds. Tell one of them you can hear today, and who will arrive from wintering in the near future. The basics birdwatching — bird watching — helped to understand the head of the Department of environmental education and registration of animals HPBW “Mospeada” Nikolai Kudryavtsev.
In Moscow live. Now they return after wintering from Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, the South of Russia and from neighboring countries.
“winter holiday” has arrived starlings, chaffinches, river tern, moorhen, urban swallow, forest Accentor, a little-carrier, whinchat, common Redstart and others. Some of them are listed in the Red book of Moscow.
Another bird from the red book of Moscow, which already arrived in the city and whose singing can be heard in the Bush, —. It is a songbird with a size of about 13-14 cm with brown and speckled head, white belly and orange-yellow throat and breast. In contrast to the grey Warbler, goldfinch, bluethroats and, for example, garden Warbler, actively making nests now, the economy is not in a hurry to arrange accommodation and waiting enough will grow lush meadow grass.
In Telecom Park first noticed the red book of the wood pigeon.
One of the small migratory birds that live in Moscow. She looks like a fluffy ball on legs with a protruding tail. In Latin this bird name, not corresponding its appearance: “troglodyte”, or “living in a cave” — so called one of the ancient tribes. This is due to the fact that wrens view spherical socket with a circular entrance resembling the entrance to the cave. The Wren can be found in woods and wooded parks, he especially loves moist places and vyvorotki (trees, twisted from the root), where you can find many insects.
Other birds, on the contrary, are frequent and actively adapt to the conditions of the city. They can see (and hear) not only in the parks or in the woods, but also in the courts. Among them, for example. Of course, we are talking about the green yards, where quite a lot of tall trees.
most likely to hear Chaffinch residents of neighborhoods built before 1980-ies, where there are high birches, Prunus and other trees.
Starlings, flown in April, has already settled in nest boxes and actively forage on lawns. The city swallows begin to build their nests and the trees they often prefer technical balconies prefabricated houses.
just black Swifts and inhabit attics and ventilation. They fly high and catch insects. Many confuse them with the swallows, but despite some similarities, is a completely different look. Black swift family connections closer to American animationri than to swallow.
“Great tit and the blue tit-blue tit in recent decades, learned to nest on the masts of street lighting. In short, many birds adapt. Of course, on specially protected nature territories, species diversity is much more, but there are those who are quite satisfied with the urban environment. These types start winning in numbers. For the cavity nesters in the city, as a rule, do not have enough “living space”, so in the yard or even on the balcony you can safely hang a birdhouse or a synecdoche, it’ll be live,”- said the expert.
From day to day in Moscow will arrive rosefinch, corncrake, black swift, green peremeshku and Oriole.
Lentils are a small bird of the Finch family, a relative of the Chaffinch and bullfinch. The male is entirely red in color — hence the name. appears in the middle zone of Russia is one of the last, because flying all the way from South-East Asia. According to the expert, it is numerous for Moscow the kind that likes river valleys and abandoned orchards, preferring their forests: “we Have in the natural reserve “Valley Setun” her quite a lot, because there is suitable habitat”.
Green peremeshku, on the contrary, loves the woods, especially birch. It can be found in Izmailovo Park. The bird called peresechnoe because during the winter in the tropical zone of Africa, it remembers the trill of exotic birds, and fly back in, touches them in a different way.
arrived In Moscow and the first whose songs are considered among the most melodic and loud. In some of the best singers along with the warblers experts put songbirds and blackbirds, varicose and Robins. If you omit the “cat notes” and take into account only the pleasant part of the tune, these include the Golden Oriole. In may the birds sing more and louder than all. More precisely, sings the male half of the population of the feathered: singing males attract females and mark its territory.
There are in the capital and those birds that remain to winter in the city, though their wild counterparts are migrating. This, for example, shelducks, or orange duck. It turns out that in Moscow have long had their own populations.
according to the expert, in the nature of shelducks live in the southern steppes, in the Astrakhan and Orenburg regions. In the Moscow zoo they were brought after the war to demonstrate the diversity of the fauna of the Soviet Union. Some time they clipped the wings, like all exhibition birds, and when stopped, they are scattered all over Moscow and successfully mastered the attics of houses. But when winter comes, all of shelducks returning to their “historic homeland” — the pond of the Moscow zoo.
