"Forest Flute" or "wildcat" - all this is an oriole.This bird - one of the most beautiful in the world.In addition, she is the best songstress Russian forest!Her trills remind play the flute.Browse this bird is almost impossible because it always hides in dense foliage.By the way, in June Oriole began to publish the wild cries like a cat, which came on the tail.This is her battle cry, a warning about the dangers of an employee. Farewell, Russia!
Oriole - a bird of passage.However, from the south, she returned to Russia later than the other - in May, when the trees are already green, does rustling their leaves.Oriole and fly to warmer climes earlier than all other species of migratory birds!
Food
Oriole - a bird useful!She eats a great many harmful insects, benefiting plants and humans.Bird catches its prey in flight, and collects on the ground and in the trees.Sometimes she is not averse to eat spiders and small snails.Interestingly, the Orioles and the cuckoo - the only birds that destroy a special kind of harmful caterpillars which other birds can not stand!In late summer, our feathered beauty becomes a "herbivorous" she eats small fruit trees such as cherry and pear and berries ...
Habitat
Today this bird inhabited the whole of Europe to the south of England and Sweden.It is common in the forests of south-western Siberia.Generally, Oriole - a bird (photo №2) is very common in almost all over the world!Just think: the northwest of Africa and Asia Minor, as well as the south-west of Siberia and the whole of Europe!By the way, its tropical origins is simple: it is a migratory bird!Especially in our area, it does not stay long.In August, they disappear from their places gnezdovok, flying away from the cold of Russia in the distant tropical Africa!Here's a she - Oriole!
bird singing which should please our ears, lover settle in old parks, gardens and alleys and in the bush with a fairly high trees along the banks of streams.Often it can be found in deciduous forests and light forests.Oriole tries to avoid dark and dense coniferous forests. Rookery
As mentioned above, in the nature of this wonderful bird is very difficult to notice.Oriole - a bird fearful and cautious.Therefore, it adheres to the thick foliage, and only at very high trees!There, she and socket.Its nest is similar to most usual basket of grass stems, leaves, birch bark and other natural "building materials."There is no more accurate builders among birds of growth than herself!Usually, the female makes a clutch of 3-5 eggs.At hatching, both parents are involved.Month - and the chicks fly from the nest!By the way, with this beauty, artfully suspended in the green grove, very difficult to find a simple man in the street! "Hobbies"
Some species of these birds - the real chistyuli!For example, oriole just plain can not live without a permanent bathing!This is her kind of "hobby".Ornithologists are touched by watching bright yellow chick, who, like a lone swallow steeply and rapidly decreases with height on the surface of water.It is a real joy for all lovers of nature!
