lentils is a beautiful bird feathered choristers, who belongs to the family of finches.Lentil has a small size and weight of the body, it weighs between 19 and 25 grams.The bird has a fairly bright plumage.The male has a red breast, back, head and nadhvoste.The females and young birds plumage greenish-gray, white belly, dark wings.Males have colorful plumage appears when they arrive for the winter for the second time, and until then young males has a very faint greenish color.Bird lentils endowed with a strong beak having a conical shape.
main places of settlement lentils are moist forests, river banks and streams.She also lives in urban parks, gardens, is found in the thickets of lilacs.The main habitat of the birds is an open space, where there are bushes and forest edges are.Meet the lentils in a natural habitat can be quite rare, because it behaves very cautiously and prefers to hide in the dense foliage, but sonorous voice of a bird, you can learn about its presence.
Bird lentils (photo in the article) is a migratory feathered, so its distribution area is wide enough: almost the entire European part of Russia, the Caucasus, the Asian part of Russia and Siberia.To build nests lentil used the roots and stems of grasses, diligently paving the tray slot and grass down to give care.The main venue construction jacks are branches of bushes and small trees.Complete clutch contains about 5-6 eggs having greenish color with purple spots and speckles.Incubation, which lasts about 14 days, is engaged in the female lentils, and the male at this time engaged in feeding of it.The chicks leave the nest very early, even without being able to fly well.
lentils Bird got its name because of melodic trills that are formed as a result of calls and clear enough sound combinations "Th-Th-vee-tsa", which is the original card of colorful birds.The basis for the supply of lentils serve a variety of over-ripe seeds and fruits, sometimes they consume small insects (during podkarmlivaniya chicks), mainly caterpillars, small beetles and aphids.In the spring comes the time of flowering bird cherry, and lentils basis of power at this time are her flowers.
Bird lentils winters in Asia and India.Males have a red color, the first guide to the wintering grounds.When they fly off old males, who do not have nests, but for the past - young birds.Many bird lovers decide to keep lentils at home and are faced with some problems, chief among which is the process of molting.Molting lentils in captivity is caused by improper feeding, which leads to obesity and metabolic disorders.Therefore, bird lentils are very demanding on the quality of food.
Lentils - colorful feathered, which takes place in the children's literary work, authored by Nikolai sweet."Bird lentils" - the book includes interesting poetic stories about different forest birds.
