oatmeal ... Little Bird representative birds with rather unusual name.What is it?Where and how often it can be found?It is this beauty, we'll talk today.
Section 1. Bird Bunting.General description
First of all, it should be noted that it is quite small with a fine representative of the birds beak and slender body.But the wings may have different lengths and shapes.Feathers thick and soft, some species may be on the head crest.
Living oatmeal, belonging to the family of the same name, on a fairly open spaces.In principle, they can be found in the steppe and tundra, and forest edges and clearings.
Scientists say that in nature there are several types of oatmeal: migratory, nomadic and sedentary.Oatmeal - a bird singing is mostly monotonous: it tends to repeat the same sounds.
It should be noted that their nest oatmeal almost hidden, and weave them on the ground, and only very rarely in some secluded place.
In Russia today there are 34 species emberizidae, while in the world there are about 200 species.
Section 2. Bird Bunting.Early birds
Oatmeal - a representative of the early birds.They can also be called the most careless and they are among the first return is usually from warm countries.
First, however, the males arrive, because they are not afraid of even the night frosts.In anticipation of the females they give their first concerts when snow still not gone.His singing males show to other individuals, that this territory is occupied.
In late April oatmeal in most cases find their pairs to a little later, in May, to withdraw their offspring.
in the diet of these birds nekaprizny.Eat oatmeal plant seeds and insects.In late summer, you can meet on the sidelines have grown large flocks of young birds who are looking for food.
Section 3. Bird Bunting home
These little animals - great singers, precisely because of this talent, and people like to keep them in the house.Previously, it was thought that oatmeal categorically is not suitable for home maintenance, since it is impossible to tame.But this is not true.The main thing to have patience, and then from the savage can get this songbird.
Catch buntings often in the spring, when they begin to sing, and you can choose the best singer.Catch your favorite bird can be at additional forage or female decoy.Here, as in war, all means are good.
The conditions of buntings has a lot of nuances.For example, after catching the bird kind buntings Dubrovnik for at least two weeks placed in kuteyke or cell covered with a thick cloth.During this time, the bird should raspetsya full force.Swap "house" or change it at this time is strictly forbidden, oatmeal can be silenced, and this spring is no longer sing.
Keep buntings can be one, couples and even whole flocks.These birds need a large cage in a confined space or not they sing, or sing, but not in a loud voice.
to oatmeal pleased with his voice, it must be properly fed.In summer, its diet should prevail different insects.But from seeds containing fat, such as sunflower seeds, it is better to refuse at all - they can cause obesity birds.The most useful for the buntings are millet and rape.
can say that oatmeal unpretentious and hardy in the content.But to enjoy the paradise of their singing, they still need to create favorable conditions as a real artist.
