Song Thrush refers to one of the largest populations of birds.He became known residents and cottagers because of his amazing singing that can be heard throughout the summer.
What territories inhabited
Thrush is very common to hear the phrase: "Drozd - a bird singing."With her familiar inhabitants of the countries of Central Asia, Europe and Siberia.Representatives of this species migrate from their usual habitat for wintering in Africa and Southern Europe.Areas on which lives thrush, a bird referred to the category of cold-tolerant and northern.
After wintering they come back at night and in small groups, the females arrive to 7 days later, a phenomenon characteristic of the middle part of Russia.
Characteristics and description of the type
song thrush belongs to the family Drozdov and passerine.Their color does not attract attention.Brown chocolate hue, sometimes gray, prevails on top of the head, tail and back.Breast white, sometimes pale yellow color, a little buff flanks.You might also notice that the abdomen is dark and covered with brown spots, like droplets, their number decreases significantly closer to the throat.To place under the wings characteristic red hue.The beak of a bird and a dark brown and its base is light in color.Legs - brownish-yellow.There were no significant differences between males and females was observed.The younger generation of blackbirds can be seen at once, the colors on their bodies more colorful, but slightly dimmer than in mature animals.
The length of the bird reaches 20-25 cm, weight has little - 50-100 g, wingspan of the baby may be about 34-39 cm.
Availability
subspecies known only three subspecies of song thrush.The first of them inhabits mainly England, the second - preference for Ireland, the third - extended to all other characteristic of blackbirds spaces.
Where does Mavis?
very different kinds of forests are home to blackbirds after returning from hibernation.However, the bird prefers places dominated by spruce and juniper thickets and deciduous forests - is no exception.The most favorite for them can be a forest of maple, alder, birch, pine and spruce, oaks.
The biggest number of these birds observed on the territory of the Eurasian continent.Their habitats are located towards the north to the East European crooked, in the Urals, they can be found to the borders of birch.Steppe and forest is also not deprived of attention thrush, floodplains among forests are dear to them in these areas.The bird is not afraid of the mountains.We can say that they prefer the more natural areas, so where the person is rare.Although in recent years there is a tendency of settling these denizens of the city's parks, especially if there is a spruce.This phenomenon is typical for Western Europe, for Russia it is a rarity.There
actively settling Mavis suburban parts, such as forest parks.These birds are perfectly coexist with other members of their species, such as the blackbird, thrush, Redwing, Fieldfare.Of all the individuals of the family only Mavis has the ability to go deep into the large forests, but it is still possible to see the nest and on their outskirts, glades.The most favorite sites in the woods - it is more humid.Dislikes bird little desert places they do not have the habit to nest in areas agrogorodov, but during the flight can use these areas for their sustenance.
Excellent song thrush
There are a variety of birds and amazing voice, Mavis stands out among them all really.Connoisseurs of this beauty is often argue among themselves about who sings better - or thrush nightingale.Supporters are always there and that, and this bird.However, the song thrush's voice sounds more mysterious and extraordinary.
his songs can be described as a combination of short and infrequent whistles and trills that sound is not very loud.Each element in all of them the time is repeated for a long time.Very often, they twist their singing with songs of other birds, which sounds very playful.
this amazing pastime song thrush can catch on very tops of tall trees, sing songs does not bother him all day.However, the best is singing in the morning and evening hours.There is a certain cyclical intensity song thrush, a break is observed in early June, following the decline can be seen in mid-July.
Many people say that singing thrush is sometimes possible to distinguish between words that are repeated all the time.And what kind of sentence he utters?This question has different answers, as each takes a different song.
Life Song Thrush
During his nesting birds live in pairs, after this period of life, they try to keep flocks.
After the arrival of females, males start to look for a chosen one.To the lady chosen his mating dance is performed, during which he lowers his wings and fluffs feathers.If the female begins to dance in response, this means that the courtship accepted.After the couple was formed, the female is looking for a suitable place to nest.And after 7 days begins the joint construction of the future home.
Construction of the nest can be called a real construction as used for this branch, twigs, grass, moss, lichen, and many.Once the basic framework of the nest is built, it begins the process of plastering.The inner surface smeared with a mixture of earth, clay, rot tree and saliva.Once they dry, the female lays up to six eggs, they have a blue color with black spots.The mother is usually responsible for hatching, the male sometimes replaces it to she ate.The chicks come in two weeks, and parents together to extract food for them.Even after the kids for the first time will fly out of the nest, they are unable to feed themselves, and the female with the male help them in this.
Mavis second start laying around mid-June, the number of eggs in it a little bit less than in the first.
nest Song Thrush can usually be seen in the trees among the strong branches on the bushes, on the fallen trunks, fallen trees and sometimes on the earth.It is located not less than 2 and not more than 10 meters from the ground, next to this place and are often the edge of the clearing.
desperate daredevils
Mavis bravely defends its nest.Noticing the possible danger, he immediately begins to attack.In that case, if the enemy is large, bird pretending wounded and jumping on the ground, takes a predator to a safe distance.Wrote many tales and stories, which set out similar situations.
Drozd in film
In the 70s of the last century was made into a movie called "Once Mavis."The main character named Gia plays in the orchestra on an unusual instrument - timpani.The sound can be heard only once, at the beginning and at the end of the play.It is clear that the musician not necessarily reside with him, and in between his work he can arrange his hectic life.Perhaps the film was so named because its creators have found similarities with the life of the protagonist song thrush.
These birds are known to almost every person, their amazing singing enchants even musicians.They also benefit the nature, destroying a huge number of pests.
