Birds are highly organized vertebrates.Individuals are quite common on the planet as a whole.This is due to their ability to make long flights or to adapt to the varying terrain.Most common in the forest.By the number of species of this class is the most numerous of terrestrial vertebrates.
distinctive features of animal
Birds have their own characteristics.These animals belong to a class feathered, oviparous.Their front limbs arranged in the form of wings.The structure of the body is adapted to the flight, but now there is quite a lot of species of flightless birds.Another feature is the presence of the birds beak.Its structure can indicate the type of food that the animal eats mostly.
brief description of some types
Birds are ubiquitous.Some of them are distributed mainly in the settlements, while others make seasonal migrations to different distances.For resident birds are birds that live year-round in the same place.They do not make long-distance migrations.Usually, animals are adapted to living near humans.Many of them are in need of winter feeding.Grain or food waste - the main food that nourish sedentary birds.Nomadic birds - individuals moving from one place to another.Hops are performed, usually in search of food.
resident birds.Examples of species inhabiting mainly forests
Animals leading a lifestyle characterized by cunning caution.They are able to warn each other of danger.Many of them live in flocks.One fairly common species are the woodpeckers.These sedentary birds feed on seeds of conifers are able to handle a season of several thousand cones.Woodpeckers are able to quickly and easily climb up the trunks of trees, producing larvae and insects.Very common animals in the Yaroslavl region.It is home to about eight of their species.Nuthatches - sedentary birds that inhabit the mixed forests, parks.You can find them far from human habitation.These animals are characterized by Thrifty.They feed them are mainly acorns, seeds of conifers and lime, pine nuts, berries, wild cherry.Nuthatches stockpile their own food in the fall.
Individuals, which can be found at the property a person
Jay inhabits coniferous, deciduous and mixed forests.These sedentary birds are omnivorous.Since autumn jay as nuthatch, food stores themselves - is hiding in the ground and cracks tree acorns.Living in mainly in the central part of Russia, in a particularly harsh winter jay chosen closer to human habitation.These birds are attracted enough attention to their bright colors, noisy and very lively behavior.In winter, they live alone.Tit distributed in different types of woods.Also, often they can be found in the settlements.In winter it killed up to 90% of the individuals.Tit need fertilizing during the cold season.For this approach sunflower seeds, bread crumbs, hemp.But most of all tits like unsalted bacon.Quite numerous species considered daw.These birds are quite common in the central part of Russia.Individuals live in flocks in winter, combined with the crows and spend the night with them, clinging to each other.Jackdaws are omnivorous.Is populated suburb, they pick up food waste, performing, thus, the role of nurses.
Large forest dwellers
Some resident birds whose names are well known, try to stay away from human habitation.One of the most large-scale species are considered capercaillie.They live mainly in the forest.They can be found in places where there is - at least occasionally - there are lots of pine and berry bushes.Almost the whole year grouse are ground-arboreal life.Capercaillie feeds mainly on plant food.During the winter, it is a tough food and barbed needles, pine buds.In almost all areas of the central part of Russia can be seen grouse.These sedentary birds can unite in flocks or live alone.Males tend to dwell on the tops of small trees.In winter, the main food for the animals are catkins and buds of birch.In the cold season, they are usually grouped in flocks, spend the night in the snow.In blizzard or snowstorm is not out of the shelter.
most common sedentary bird.Names.Description
One of the more adapted to life is forty species.These sedentary birds common in the forest belt and in the settlements.In winter magpie live as close to human habitation.Attend bins, landfills, and other places where looking for food scraps.Sparrows are very adapted to living near human habitation, outbuildings.The birds are small, short beak.They feed mainly grain.Their nests can be seen in the cracks of walls, hollows, birdhouse.Sometimes birds may triple over the summer to bring chicks.Distributed sparrows everywhere in Russia.Ravens are found in settlements, mostly in the cities.These birds are fairly easy to tame.Crows are omnivores: destroy rodents picked fallen fruit and seeds.Nests are built of twigs.In cold weather the birds are matched as closely as possible to human habitation, they are united in the pack.In winter, they serve as food for food waste.All known species - blue - common in settlements.These animals have a unique ability to navigate in unfamiliar territory, find their way home, to overcome quite a long distance.Pigeons trainable and very quickly get used to the place of residence.
Seasonal changes in life
from late winter to early spring at the resident birds begin preparation for reproduction.They pay much attention to marriage games, spending time on the formation of steam.During this period, they lose weight considerably.Birds that were wintering, prepared at this time for the flight to the breeding grounds.In this regard, they begin to feed heavily.From spring to the first days of summer birds spend time in building nests, hatching eggs, feeding of the offspring, protecting nesting.As more attention is given to feeding the chicks, the parents lose much weight.Since mid-summer to autumn starts increased replenishment of energy resources.Migratory birds while gathering forces to carry out the flight.Animals fed intensively in this period, gaining weight.From autumn to winter spent last season in the accumulated energy to maintain optimal body temperature.At this time the birds also eat hard, and spend almost all day in search of food.
The species migrates
above talked about what the birds settled.Now we will focus on certain types of perpetrators of migration.In the central zone of the country in gardens, parks and squares found siskin.Sometimes he can lead a sedentary life.Feed it are weeds, the seeds of pine, spruce, birch, alder.Together with tits and sparrows siskins in the cold fly to the feeder.Yet another quite frequent guests - bullfinches.They are considered the northern birds.In winter, birds migrate in the direction of the southern regions.You can often find the birds in the settlements.Food for them are the seeds of lilac, ash, maple.But most of all love rowan bullfinch.One of the rare species from the Red Book of the Yaroslavl region, a tap dance.It occurs most often during the winter migration.Birds are combined in small flocks.Meet the birds can be mentioned in the scrub, woodlands.Sometimes they live in settlements.It feeds on seeds whole tap dance alder cones, birch buds, seeds of sedges, heather and spruce.In northern waxwing lives.This kind of bird migration begins in August, wandering in the southern regions.In winter, their food is hawthorn berries, viburnum, mountain ash.Unite in flocks of birds flying up to a berry bushes.Quickly sklevyvaya fruit fly to other trees.
