What kind of bird with the red breast sitting on a branch in front of a window in a wonderful and serene winter day?Of course, bullfinch!In the world of birds there are only 9 varieties.Probably do not need to explain that the most widespread and immense popularity it has received an ordinary bullfinch.About him and talk.
"Table of Ranks"
terms of zoological systematics, Common bullfinch, or a bird with the red breast, belongs to the family of finches.Their closest relatives are goldfinches, finches, crossbills, and most remote - canaries.
Appearance
its size bullfinches are not inferior to the wheel, but seem more dense because of the typical physique.Their beak is very sharp, and the massive cone.Eyes resemble small black beads.The head and body almost merge due to the short neck.The bird with the red breast (photos 1, 2, 3) has a very short wings and, on the other hand, moderately long tail.
is widely believed that the bullfinch - a bird rather bright.However, this is not always the case.They are rather plain: on the head they have a black "cap" that covers the eye.The wings and tail are also black, and the back - gray.The color of the abdomen in males and females differ markedly.In males, it ranges in color from gray-pink to crimson or bright orange, females - gray or brownish.
Power
bird with the red breast is herbivorous.The basis of the diet bullfinches are dry seeds of spruce, maple, ash and other trees.Birds love to peck at berries viburnum, mountain ash, wild cherry.They do not swallow it whole, selecting only seeds.The flesh is falling to the ground.Sometimes the birds feed on young shoots and flowers, buds.Very rarely they are predators, eating small insects.It should be noted that this is a very voracious birds.
Lifestyle
All bullfinches are exceptionally wild birds inhabiting the deaf and dense forests.They try to avoid open spaces, and during nesting stay away from human dwellings.Common bird with the red breast prefers dark spruce forests, pine forests and not light.In addition, bullfinches are both sedentary and migratory.Everything depends on the feeding conditions of a particular area.If year has been fruitful, the birds spend the winter in the same place, and grew, and if not - fly to the south.
The overall quality of bullfinches without exception - it is their reticence and caution.That is why in the summer it is very difficult to see ... Yes, my friends, you heard right!It is summer!Why is that?Read more!
Myth of Bullfinch
Friends, bullfinches are not fundamentally winter birds!It is a great mistake!Their appearance at the shelter during the winter gave rise to the idea of them as of the northern birds.However, they inhabit and the tropics and subtropics.Common bullfinch, unlike its cousins, has the most extensive range: from west to east - from Ireland (and Britain) to Sakhalin (Kurile) from north to south - from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula.That is why the "winter" bird with the red breast - not such a "winter"!
