How are egg thrush?

Invaders - a wonderful little birds belonging to the order of passerine, old korotkoklyuvyh.A special feature of this bird is its music, or rather singing ability.Outside thrush is usually not very catchy.Color feathers may be noble brown or light olive with dark brown speckles.However, there are also black birds with a few bright spots on the tail.

blackbird eggs painted by the nature in surprising colors and shades - from blue to light green.Occasionally they have a solid color.The presence or absence of specks on eggs indicates that the structure of the eggshell is observed a degree of pigmentation.In the process of pigmentation of eggs produced by the concentration of a substance such as protoporphyrin.It is a potent photosensitizer and contain such molecules that are able to not only absorb the sun's rays, and process it to oxygen, light and heat, which are so necessary to the healthy development of embryos chicks.

Today in Russia there are 46 species of thrushes.Each type - its color eggs.Thrush one type can be easily distinguished from each other.Differences of shape, color and pattern eggs - not a radical, but still there.Eggs thrush, photos of which are represented here, have different shades of color, and size of the inclusions.Some - larger and more elongated, the other - round and small.Here are some examples of color eggs.

American thrush Swanson has a standard for all blackbirds bright color, with one difference - the top of the head, the tail and the tips of the wings are reddish hue.His balls - blue with brown specks.This bird nests in the form of a large Vietnamese tangle of dried grass blades.The blue color of the eggs of the American thrush, for that matter, and other species, has always attracted the attention of ornithologists its brightness.Background color blue is unusual for its shades: green, greyish and bright turquoise.And spots - very clear, brownish-rusty color.They come in different sizes, from microscopic points to spots of a pinhead.

hermit thrush.This bird - very modest, likes to hide from prying eyes among the branches.Its low-key color has more brown in color, and on his chest is drawn blur.Hermit thrush eggs plain, no specks, have a soft greenish-blue color.Nests hermit thrush Viet among tree branches so that the rays of the sun as much as possible could get to them, feed them with its light and warmth.

song thrush.The number of this population is large enough.In color birds dominate the weak and olive shades of gray, speckled color of dark chocolate.Egg laying a bright turquoise color with dark speckles small size, pale or blue-gray in color with small brown spots.Specks are often painted in the color of dark chocolate.They differ in size: it can be very small spots, or slightly larger - about the size of a match head.

Blackbird: always looks solid, with black plumage, yellow beak and traced in yellow, orange or red rims around the eyes.On the other thrushes it in larger sizes.Eggs thrush have a green color, close to the dark olive color, with light brown spots.There are also eggs background with gray-green shade, speckled with larger chocolate color.On the broad side of each egg completely painted brown pigment.