Nuthatch - Bird unusual.Its name speaks for itself.It shows that the bird is able to crawl.However, such a conclusion can be given unobservant person.Bird does not crawl.She runs, but very quickly.
amazing climbers
Nuthatch - bird unique.It is the only feathered dart frogs are capable of moving the head down on a vertical shaft.
How does a bird nuthatch?This small short-tailed bird.Her pale gray color at the top of the body has a bluish tinge.The plumage of the abdomen - white.
Nuthatch - small birds.Her weight is in the range of fifteen to twenty six grams.The length of the body - thirteen to sixteen centimeters, and wing - 7,3-9,2 cm. Wings span reaching 25-28 cm.
Bird nuthatch (see below photo) has a fairly long and straight beak.Black stripe through the eye, giving it a curious and sly look.
seasonal differences in the color of the body in almost no birds.In addition, soft and thick plumage juvenile does not change, and in later life.Only adults nuthatches lower body has a brownish tint, and the band, going through the eyes and gray top, it becomes brownish.After molting, held in the autumn, the differences disappear.And no one can say to him or young adult bird nuthatch.
Description surprising dart frogs do not shy away from his feet.Thanks to them, bird moves on vertical trunks as a living ball of mercury.Yes, skill nuthatch in drevolazanii made possible by foot.They are relatively short, but have an unusually long fingers with very sharp and curved claws.This allows the bird to capture a significant surface of a tree trunk.Between the tip of the nail at the rear and middle fingers feathered dart frogs, a great distance.Its value is equal to almost the entire length of the body of birds.With this nuthatch could easily hold onto the tree trunk headfirst.
Feathered fidget
Nuthatch - bird is not easily frightened.It can allow to approach man to himself at a distance of a few steps.However, it never ceases to emit the characteristic sound of "tweet tweet" or "tvut-tvut", while examining the trunks and branches of trees.A curious bird may even itself closer to the man.However, she pretends that he stumbled on by accident.His "disappointment" nuthatch expresses sounding whistle 'Sit-Sit ", similar to the cry of the coachman:" Watch out-and-and-smiling! ".At the same time with real cunning dart frogs peeping from behind the trunks of trees.
Nuthatch always cheerful and tireless.He is agile, lively and energetic.This bird as if the characters are connected by a woodpecker and tits.No wonder the German name of this bird - «Spechtmeise».Translated it means dyatlosinitsa.
Habitats
Meet nuthatch can be throughout the forest zone of Western Europe until the Far East.He avoids the Far North, but in the southern direction lives up to the most amazing dart frogs tropics.
special kind nuthatch distributed in Western Siberia.It has some differences from the Scandinavian subspecies occurring in the European territory.In the Siberian nuthatch no feathers on the sides of chestnut color.
bird prefers to settle in the island and floodplain forests.Sometimes she met in the steppe south.In the Republic of Altai and the Altai Territory nuthatch lives in mixed and coniferous forests, located near the Ob and the Biya, as well as tape and chopping forests to Bie-Chumyshskoy hill.Meet the amazing dart frogs can be in the mountains.Nuthatch inhabits forests, located at an altitude of 2000-2200 meters above sea level.
Power
In spring and summer food nuthatch are insects.With pleasure eats ants and Diptera dart frogs, caterpillars and butterflies, bugs and beetles, weevils and other beetles.Do not hesitate to take it and spiders.As a rule, their food nuthatch collects in large boughs, and in cracks and crevices of tree trunks.But sometimes it is necessary to Ptah hollow bark, to extract it from the insects and larvae.Extracting the pulp acorn or hazelnut, nuthatch can push them into the slot bark or pressed against the trunk of a foot.Then he breaks his prey blows strong beak.In spring and autumn nuthatch can be found on the ground.He descends from the trunk of the tree to look for insects in leaf litter.In autumn dart frogs feed on berries, such as cherry.
Nuthatch - migratory bird or not?If not, what she eats in the cold season?Nuthatch - bird wintering in his native place.In order to survive the hungry during this restless Ptah stores food store.Since the early autumn, nuthatch puts pine nuts, acorns and fruits of lime, hazel and beech in the cracks and niches found in tree trunks.In storerooms thrifty birds can find a variety of seeds and maple lionfish.The work ends in December.
Wintering
Nuthatch - migratory bird or not?This question has long been answered ornithologists.Amazing dart frogs hibernate in his native forest.To the south, they do not fly away.Bird is settled.However, in the autumn and winter it is found in various forests, as well as in the steppe zone.There, she develops and gully area of shelter arrays, gardens and riverine thickets.
It was there in those seasons and lives nuthatch.Migratory birds or not unique dart frogs?No, ornithologists have attributed it in part to a group of wandering.As soon as spring comes, birds are moved to the newly mixed and deciduous forests.
Nest
nuthatches usually settle in the hollows of trees.Login to your home shopping Ptah smeared with manure, mud or clay.This building material nuthatch is in its beak and sticks it around the hole as long as the tap-hole diameter is reduced to about thirty-five millimeters.
litter in a nest made of loose dart frogs and a thick layer of pine bark scales.Sometimes there are up to two and a half thousand.The bark is an excellent insulator.Furthermore, it rare plant parasites.Thus, in the hollow of a nuthatch convenient, hygienic and warm.
Reproduction
nuthatch The chicks leave the nest very early.This usually occurs either in late May or early June.
Masonry nuthatch has from four to twelve eggs, decorated with reddish-brown spots.Their brooding deals exclusively female.The male thus regularly brings her food.Parents feed the chicks emerged from twenty-two to twenty-five days.It's pretty hard work.During the day it falls to three hundred and eighty times to bring food to the young.At the same time parents take care of hygiene and housing.Not less than fifty or sixty times during the day they endure beyond slime-covered elastic capsule, replacing the little nuthatch chamber pots.
Nuthatch captive
If surprising dart frogs to catch and put in a cage, it quickly gets used to the new conditions.Nuthatches can be placed in the same cage with siskins, Linnet, or tap dancing.There he will be one of the most fun indoor birds.Watch it can be hours.Nuthatch will not cease to amaze his climbing a skilled placed in a cage tree bark and tumbling on a perch.
Bird need to give a mixture of hemp seed or other ant eggs.As goodies for Ptakha perfectly suited pine nuts.
