grouse - a bird from the family of grouse, living on the territory of our country, in virtually all corners of Russia.Mostly they like to live in dense forests or pure coniferous or mixed, or adjacent wetlands.Preferring to lead a sedentary life, bird grouse rarely flies in another forest.But "walking" the representative grouse able to overcome long distances.
Capercaillie - Bird , has great beauty plumage.During courtship the male fan dissolve their bright tail like a peacock trying to attract the attention of less bright female woodcocks.The back of the bird is black and gray with speckled light colors, poultry breast - with an interesting greenish metallic tint.Grey Wings finished appearance to the capercaillie, if not for his eyebrows, swelling in the spring.At a time when the grouse bird starts tokovat, those eyebrows are bright red or maroon color.
The diet includes both feathered plant food (grass, berries, seeds of trees and shrubs, flowers and leaves), and various insects.Rarely using their wings
Surely everyone has heard that expression used to refer to a person who repeats the same thing, not listening to the others: "You are like a grouse on tokovische!".Why do people become so figuratively compare not listen to the views of other person with this interesting bird?Yes, it is due to the fact that the grouse - a bird flies to tokovische and begin their "songs", becoming completely deaf to everything around!That is, while the predators use this feature of displaying males, stalking and virtually unchecked grab prey.
Besides singing, which consists of the clicking and hissing, birds and even "dance" was added to his performance!And it happens like this: enthusiastically snapping and sizzling male, wings spread and stretching his neck, fluffs his tail and proudly walks on tokovischu back and forth: shows all its incomparable beauty and artistic talent!
course, females, hearing their ear very pleasant singing males, too, arrive to take a look at this statement, and if you are lucky, then choose a partner for the breeding.
But this event is not always limited to a peace-loving "amateur performances."Often birds on tokovischah arrange fights between them, figuring out who is the most-most.Done all this, once again, to attract the females.However, these fights often end tragically: a weaker opponent can even die of his wounds.
By the way, for many wood grouse spring hunting is one of the highest pleasures.Well, they love the spring to shoot grouse, the more that particular skill is the lesson they are not required.But some do, and "Tools" tokovische, seedlings rag dolls, one in one simulates the male.And if, moreover, in the bushes to hide the tape, which will transmit "capercaillie singing", or skill to "sing" the song of the capercaillie in love, the collection of the females in the fraudulent tokovische guaranteed!So far, they will understand what was happening until something detect fraud!A hunter does not sleep ...
Sometimes it turns out that because of the disease, poaching, too active "knightly fights" and the predators male capercaillie population becomes much lower than the population of the females.But those long suffering, "sitting up on the shelf" and a direct course to go ... tokovische grouse!
As a result, there gluharki offspring - a hybrid of capercaillie and black grouse, which is called "rackelhahn."By the way, it is likely the reverse option: when a female grouse is on the "party" to the capercaillie.
rackelhahn be more like or grouse or capercaillie reminding - it all depends on what species belonged to a female.They do not differ from their relatives, only they are unable to produce offspring.
But to miss such an event as tokovische, rackelhahn can not!They also flock to advance to the "bride", but more in order to take part in the fighting.Whether because of their disability, or because of resentment toward everything and everyone, but actively interfere rackelhahn formed couples!Therefore, they are likely to cause harm to nature than good.
way, it should be noted another interesting feature of this bird, which concerns her hibernation.After grouse wintering deep in the snow, like a bear.Only the "den", he builds himself a very original: Take off at the tree, the bird chooses more snow and wings folded, a stone falls into it.
